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Why America Is Obsessed With True Crime

In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a street in New York City. He was convicted of murder several years later and given the maximum sentence—25 years to life in prison—on top of three additional years for two other convictions. From behind bars, Lennon began reckoning with his crime through in-prison writing workshops […]


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In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons

Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn’t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined […]


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In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons

Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn’t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined […]


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Venezuelans That US Sent to El Salvador Mega-Prison Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse

CECOT is “where people are sent for permanent punishment and separation,” says a human rights advocate.


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Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment

Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.


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The Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County

When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s department could be when pursuing suspected drug crimes. But in 2018, she learned the hard way that the rumors were true when a group of sheriff’s deputies raided the home of her friend Rick […]


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In Prison My Diagnosis Gave Me Access to Meds — Others Were Denied Care Entirely

Behind bars I watched men beg for help and get turned away because they lacked a formal diagnosis before incarceration.


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Phone Calls Are a Lifeline in Prison. Trump Is Set on Keeping Them Exorbitant.

New federal regulations were set to reel in steep costs for calling loved ones in prison. Then Trump returned.


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