Articles by Spencer Woodman

ICE Detainee Sent to Solitary Confinement for Encouraging Protest of “Voluntary” Low-Wage Labor

Loaded on Oct. 12, 2017 by Spencer Woodman

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Retaliatory Segregation, Prison Labor, Protests, Immigration. Location: Georgia.

by Spencer Woodman, reprinted with permission from The Intercept

In June, officials at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Georgia sentenced an immigrant detainee to a month in solitary confinement to punish him for encouraging fellow detainees to stop working in protest of low wages ...

No-show Cops and Dysfunctional Courts Keep Cook County Jail Prisoners Waiting Years for a Trial

Loaded on Oct. 10, 2017 by Spencer Woodman published in Prison Legal News October, 2017, page 1

Filed under: Government Misconduct, Trials. Location: Illinois.

by Spencer Woodman, Chicago Reader

June 25, 2012, was a terrible day for Jermaine Robinson. Overall, life was good – the 21-year-old Washington Park resident had been studying music management at Columbia College and was a few weeks into a job working as a janitor at a nearby Boys & ...