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Prisoners Enduring Extreme Heat Are Casualties of Texas’s Climate Denial
In Texas prisons, the price of climate denial is human lives.
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“I Have to Hold My Family Together”: The Hidden Costs of Prison Visits
After New York State ended a free bussing service designed to help families visit incarcerated loved ones in 2011, visits have plummeted.
America’s Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
U.S. prisons may be largely hidden from sight, but their environmental toxicity spreads far beyond their walls.
Introducing “America’s Toxic Prisons”
Prisons are sites of some of the worst environmental injustices in this country.
What Bail Does Is Coerce Guilty Pleas
CounterSpin interview with Arissa Hall on Mama's Bailout Day.
Women Imprisoned Under the Drug War Speak Out Against Sessions’ New Policy
The drug war led to an 800 percent increase in women's incarceration — and Sessions wants to reignite it.
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Waging War Against a Mythical Crime Wave, Sessions Ramps Up War on Drugs
There is no doubt that this move is a painful regression — one that could reverberate for years to come for thousands of Americans.
Trump Says He’ll Combat the Opioid Crisis, but His Agenda Could Make It Worse
Trump could shift the focus from public health to the prison cell.
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“When a Parent Is Taken Away, It’s Like a Death”: Two States Consider Bills to Keep Parents Out of Jail
The dehumanizing environment of a jail is no place to visit a parent, but millions of US children have no choice.
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When the State Investigates Itself, No One Is Accountable: Before and After the Vaughn Prison Rebellion
There's been no official word on whether the 120 prisoners at Vaughn who rebelled have since suffered retaliation.