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![Prisoner reading letter, shining a light up at him and through the darkness around cell](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0328-prison-pen-pal-c-400x300.jpg)
Prison Pen Pals Chip Away at the Prison-Industrial Complex One Letter at a Time
Letters are a source of hope. Policies banning physical mail are yet another attack on incarcerated people.
![Immigrant advocates place “Shut Down Glades” hearts at Glades County Detention Center on Valentine’s Day 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/gv52iScA-400x300.jpeg)
ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back.
In Florida, the Glades County Detention Center, like ICE itself, has shown that it cannot be reformed.
![Looking through a narrow window into solitary confinement room at a prisoner, all overshadowed by a COVID molecule](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0321-covid-solitary-b-400x300.jpg)
COVID-Fueled Solitary Confinement Still Plagues Prisons and Jails
Two years into the pandemic, prisons are still using torturous conditions over depopulating prisons to stop the spread.
![A participant holding a Defund Police sign at the protest.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1223470068-400x300.jpg)
When Biden Says “Fund the Police,” It Should Spur Our Efforts to Defund Them
Both parties are trying to exploit the movement to defund police to argue for raising law enforcement budgets.
![The book cover for The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0314-sentences-that-create-us-400x300.jpg)
Prisons Aim to Stifle Creativity. Here’s a Book That Pushes Back.
"The Sentences That Create Us" is a how-to-write manual pitched perfectly for incarcerated people who want to write.
![Daniel Muessig pled guilty on November 16, 2021, to a 100-kilo marijuana distribution conspiracy. He was sentenced on March 8, 2022, to 60 months in prison. Collage of images courtesy of Daniel Muessig](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/031122-marijuana-b-400x300.jpg)
I’m Facing 60 Months in Prison. Cannabis Prohibition Has Destroyed My Life.
Despite his campaign promises, President Joe Biden has pardoned two turkeys -- and no people.
![Melissa Lucio in Texas's Mountain View Unit, on February 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0311-melissa-lucio-a-400x300.jpg)
Texas Plans to Execute an Abuse Survivor Based on a Coerced Confession
Melissa Lucio's conviction hinges on a late-night confession and misrepresentations of trauma.
![An officer checks on prisoners at Santa Rita Jail on April 5, 2018, in Dublin, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0302-prison-400x300.jpg)
Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Deteriorating Conditions
“These folks inside have had enough,” says organizer Brooke Terpsta.
![A mother displays her ankle bracelet provided by ICE as part of her asylum contact when she entered the United States, in Bloomington, Illinois, on February 16, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0301-ankle-monitor-400x300.jpg)
Biden’s Immigration “Fix” Involves Jailing Migrants in Their Homes
The new digital incarceration program will be administered by private prison giant GEO Group.
![Judge's gavel and handcuffs](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0222-gavel-handcuffs-400x300.jpg)
She Said Her Husband Was Abusive. A Judge Took Her Kids and Ordered Her Arrest.
Judges regularly take liberties to get around statutes that are supposed to protect survivors, advocates say.