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![People in bleachers raise a banner reading "PROTECT TRANS RIGHTS" during a sporting event](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0715-trans-rights-400x300.jpg)
Even When Trans Women Win Transfers to Women’s Prisons, They Still Aren’t Safe
Many states are rolling back policies allowing trans people to be placed in prisons aligned with their gender identity.
![The Ash Street Jail in New Bedford, Massachusetts, believed to be the oldest continuously operating jail in the country, pictured on February 2, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2035575150-400x300.jpg)
Massachusetts’ Proposed Prison Moratorium Is a First Step Toward Abolition
A bill to halt the construction of new prisons and jails provides a way forward for decarceration.
![Michael Broadway, who died on June 19 at Stateville Correctional Center, excelled at educating himself in prison, graduating with a degree from Northwestern University. In this photo, taken at Stateville’s study hall in summer 2022, Broadway (left) stands with fellow student Michael Simmons.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/DSC08858-2-400x300.jpg)
I Watched My Neighbor Die a Preventable Death Due to Scorching Heat in Prison
Breathing was hard for all of us in the heat. I screamed for help when he collapsed but it didn’t come soon enough.
![Shanita Jefferson talks about her mother at a Families for Justice as Healing rally led by formerly incarcerated and directly impacted women and girls in support of Angela Jefferson's motion for a new trial outside Suffolk County District Attorneys Office in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 18, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1235968675-400x300.jpg)
Several States Are Building New Women’s Prisons — Can They Be Stopped?
Organizers across the country are working to halt the expansion of the carceral system.
![Palestinians are transported to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after being released from more than seven months of detention by the Israeli army, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on July 1, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0705-detainees-400x300.jpg)
Israeli Treatment Described by Freed Gaza Detainees Violates International Law
Released Palestinians say they experienced torture behind bars, including frequent beatings and sleep deprivation.
![An operating room is pictured at Camelback Family Planning, an abortion clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2149954495-400x300.jpg)
For People on Probation and Parole, Accessing Abortion Is Harder Than Ever
Crossing state lines to access reproductive care can be nearly impossible for people on community supervision.
![Sekou Odinga and dequi kioni-sadiki stand in front of a favorite ice cream parlor while on a trip to Memphis, Tennessee, on August 21, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0620-sekou-400x300.jpg)
Black Liberation Activist Sekou Odinga’s Legacy Lives On
Activist dequi kioni-sadiki, who was married to the Black Panther for almost 13 years, reflects on his life and death.
![14 year-old Palestinian Ahmed Nawaf Al-Salayma, released from Israeli jail as part of the prisoners swap deal between Israel and Hamas, reunites with his family in Jerusalem, on November 28, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1807966702-400x300.jpg)
Palestinians Face Torture, Starvation and Sexual Violence in Israeli Prisons
Prisoners' families are kept in the dark about their loved ones as prison authorities engage in unbridled abuse.
![A digital illustration of a female prisoner reaching out to pass a letter to someone on the other side of a chain link fence, both of them unable to see due to the glaring light from several floating eyeballs surveilling the prisoner with the message.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0607-prison2-400x300.jpg)
Communication Crackdown in Federal Prisons Has Been Operating Quietly Until Now
“Double contact bans” disrupt the means by which prisoners may assert their rights and dissent to their treatment.
![An immigrant makes a call from his 'segregation cell' at the Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013, in Adelanto, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0604-detention-400x300.jpg)
Hundreds of Doctors Demand Biden End Solitary Confinement in Immigration Prisons
Solitary confinement in ICE prisons would likely explode in scope under Trump’s mass deportation plan.