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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.
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.
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.
Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Deteriorating Conditions
“These folks inside have had enough,” says organizer Brooke Terpsta.
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.