News | Immigration Homeland Security Tells ICE to Cut Ties With Jail That Sicced Dogs on Migrants ICE was also ordered to end its contract with a county jail accused of performing forced hysterectomies on migrants. By Brett Wilkins , CommonDreams May 21, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half While the report’s scope is limited to Illinois, its recommendations are relevant to women’s incarceration nationwide. By Victoria Law , Truthout April 29, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing The US’s Biggest County Jails Are Sites of Extreme Environmental Injustice Patterns of incarceration lay bare the relationship between race, poverty and pollution. By Adam Mahoney , Grist April 16, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections House Rejects Cori Bush’s Amendment on Voting Rights for Incarcerated People The proposal exposed a deep rift among Democrats over how far to push their agenda on racial justice. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout March 3, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Incarcerated Organizer Airlifted to Hospital Following Attack by Prison Guards Worried loved ones staged a protest at the hospital demanding that family be allowed to visit — a demand still unmet. By Ella Fassler , Shadowproof February 12, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing ICE Has Begun Detaining Women at One of the Nation’s Deadliest Facilities Notorious for lethal medical neglect, Stewart Detention Center has turned particularly deadly amid the COVID pandemic. By Tina Vásquez , Prism February 4, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Biden’s Private Prison Executive Order Doesn’t Undo Mass Incarceration Biden’s executive order is like moving chairs on the deck of the Titanic -- it doesn’t actually reduce incarceration. By Lydia Pelot-Hobbs , Truthout January 27, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing If Biden Wants to End Death Penalty, He Must Also End Death by Incarceration More people are serving death-by-incarceration sentences today than the total number of people in prison in the 1970s. By Asha Ralph & Brian Pitman , Truthout January 24, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Mothers Are Pushing to Free Their Children From Prison During COVID COVID-19 adds more sickness and death to an already unjust system. By Janaé Bonsu , Truthout December 21, 2020 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Incarcerated Women Are Punished for Their Trauma With Solitary Confinement Vulnerable women in prison are often punished with isolation, when what they need is compassion and care. By Elizabeth Hawes , Truthout December 12, 2020 Truthout