Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project Blog

The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would mean 17-year olds would be tried in the juvenile court system and serve time in juvenile facilities.  Read more here.

Are prison issues still a Feminist concern?  Read more here.

A Federal judge has ruled that limiting prisoner’s mail to only postcards, a common practice in jails accross the country, is unconstitutional.  Read more here.

As in other states across the country, Massachusetts prison officials are grappling with new evidence, which proves solitary confinement does more harm than good.  Read the article from the Boston Globe here.

As if a story line from The Wire, prosecutors have released documents that show one inmate in a Baltimore jail has impregnated 4 guards.  Read more here.

In yet another story from the Bronx’s dysfunctional court system, a suspect waits in prison for more than three years before he is brought to trial.  Read his story here.

Several self-identified Anarchists have been held in solitary confinement for months, despite no criminal charges against them, stemming from their refusal to testify at a grand jury.  Watch them interviewed here.

After student protests, the GEO Group, one of the United States’ largest private prison companies has pulled it’s bid to name Florida Atlantic University’s new football stadium.  Read more here.

An interesting article about the effects of the prison system on LGBT people and their communities.  Read it here.

Listen to a fascinating history of solitary confinement in the United States here.