We can have a just society and we can be humane in the process.
If I had one request to my colleagues on this Judiciary Committee, it is to visit a prison.
I am asking--let me be more specific.
America has led the fight for human rights throughout the world.
There are prisoners who are in solitary confinement for decades in this country.
Increasing the use of high-security segregation is counterproductive, often causing violence inside facilities and contr...
Some States are--we are going to hear from Commissioner Epps of Mississippi. Some States, like Mississippi, Ohio, and Ma...
It is a mistake, I know, but I am going to do it anyway, to take anecdotal evidence and try to turn it into some profoun...
I am trying to zero in on a specific question. Do you believe that confinement, solitary confinement, 23 hours a day, fi...
African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of white Americans.
I want to commend you for being one of the few Senators who knows directly about which we speak, because you visit these...