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Nov 19, 2021

We Are Holding Arizona Accountable for the Needless Suffering and Deaths of Incarcerated People

Nov 8, 2021

The Final Religious Request of a Man on Death Row is in the Supreme Court's Hands

A box of ivermectin is shown in a pharmacy.

Sep 22, 2021

Ivermectin 鈥淭reatment鈥� in Arkansas Jail Illustrates Systemic Abuse

Aug 19, 2021

Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent

A general view of the Federal Correctional Complex in Victorville, California

Aug 10, 2021

Documents Foreshadow a Grim Future for COVID-19 Spread in Federal Prisons

A transgender woman in a hospital gown speaking to her doctor, a transgender man, in an exam room

Jul 15, 2021

Five Things to Know 红杏视频 Gender-Affirming Health Care

Clean lawn and tidy oak trees in front of an apartment complex

Jul 14, 2021

How America Disguised 65,000 Prison Beds

Male prisoner attached to an Electronic Monitoring (EM) ankle monitor

Jun 25, 2021

Jailed For a Faulty Battery and Left to Catch COVID-19

Jun 21, 2021

New Census Bureau Data Offers a Chance to Dismantle Prison Gerrymandering

Prisoner Alfred Chestnut hugs his mother Sarah after his release Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, in Baltimore.

Jun 14, 2021

Orange County鈥檚 Dramatic Reduction in Jail Population During the Pandemic is a Model for the Nation