• Feb 11 2013
  • 5:32pm
We're all coming together to fight the death penalty. And it's working!
Video I've been doing death penalty work for a long time, and I've watched and been part of the evolution of the movement for abolition both as a filmmaker, and campaigner.
  • Nov 25 2012
  • 11:16pm
Juvenile Life Without Parole - Show your support for Jacqueline Montanez
Over the last few years we have blogged about the issue of juvenile life without parole in the USA, a sentence which condemns children to spend the rest of their lives in prison, w...
  • Nov 1 2012
  • 12:11pm
Voice your support for Jacqueline - sentenced to life in prison aged 16
  • Oct 21 2012
  • 11:39am
Support Pussy Riot’s appeal for justice
UPDATE 11 October 2012: At
  • Oct 4 2012
  • 12:58pm
Infographic: California's prisoner isolation units
We've launched a new report on solitary confinment, which details
  • Sep 27 2012
  • 12:13pm
California nightmares: sensory deprivation and the Security Housing Units
Back in April I was blogging about the use of sensory deprivation by the prison authorities in the US state of Arizona.
  • Sep 10 2012
  • 6:44pm
The forgotten prisoners
It’s dark. You’re in a cell. You’re not alone: there are bodies slumped around you. Some of them are asleep on piles of clothes – at least, you hope they&rs...
  • Apr 16 2012
  • 1:50pm
The Angola 3: 100 years of solitude
I wrote about Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, two-thirds of the notorious “Angola 3” USA solitary confinement trio last June, and re-reading the post (