Lauren-Brooke Eisen

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

There is an epidemic of violence inside prisons.

The Violence Against People Behind Bars That We Don't See

The constant violence perpetrated by police officers on Black and Latino pe...

The constant violence perpetrated by police officers on Black and Latino people can now be seen by the broader public, thanks to cellphone videos and police bodycam footage. But what we almost never see is...

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Private Prisons Lock Up Thousands Of Americans With Almost No Oversight

America’s for-profit prison industry controls 126,000 Americans’ lives. It’...

America’s for-profit prison industry controls 126,000 Americans’ lives. It’s a $5 billion sector — one that encompasses the operation of 65% of the nation’s immigration detention beds. And at the same time, it is largely...