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3 Incarcerated Women Die of COVID After Requesting Compassionate Release
Inmates are more than twice as likely to die of COVID as the general population.
In Prison, We Celebrated the First Step Act. We Realized It Falls Far Short.
At its worst, the First Step Act further reinforces the discriminatory nature of the U.S. criminal legal system.
This Prison in California Forced Incarcerated People to Drink Arsenic for Years
Thousands of people were forced to consume arsenic-laced water for years at Kern Valley State Prison.
Leonard Peltier Has COVID. Will Biden Finally Consider Freeing Him?
Sen. Brian Schatz and others are calling for Peltier to be granted clemency.
The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men
Donald Grant and Matthew Reeves were executed after failing to “choose” their own method of death, activists say.
Prison Profiteer Is Using Sandra Bland’s Death to Sell Surveillance Technology
Guardian RFID has found a way not only to further surveil people behind bars, but also to profit from it.
My Son Was Incarcerated at 13. Six Years Later, It’s Clear the State Failed Him.
Amid a pandemic, the conditions at youth prisons have become all the more inhumane.
It’s Time for Biden to Fulfill His Pledge to End the Federal Death Penalty
Aside from a 2021 moratorium on federal executions, the Biden administration hasn’t taken any steps to end the practice.
Guantánamo Isn’t Ancient History. It Has Become a “Forever Prison.”
I’ve fought to close Guantánamo for 16 years. It should never have opened.
Former Army Chaplain at Guantánamo Was Jailed There Himself
James Yee was jailed and held in solitary confinement for 76 days after being falsely accused of espionage.