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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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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CECOT is “where people are sent for permanent punishment and separation,” says a human rights advocate.
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Venezuelans That US Sent to El Salvador Mega-Prison Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse Read Post »
Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment Read Post »
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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The mayor-elect discusses the New York City Housing Authority, a possible Department of Community Safety, and more.
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“I Think That Protest Is a Healthy Part of Any Democracy,” Says Mamdani Read Post »
States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.
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New Prison Mail Policies Threaten Newsletters by and for Incarcerated People Read Post »
Behind bars I watched men beg for help and get turned away because they lacked a formal diagnosis before incarceration.
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In Prison My Diagnosis Gave Me Access to Meds — Others Were Denied Care Entirely Read Post »
The arrest of the guards in the video launched protests from far right Israeli groups last year.
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Israeli Lawyer Resigns for Leaking Video of Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Prisoner Read Post »
New federal regulations were set to reel in steep costs for calling loved ones in prison. Then Trump returned.
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Phone Calls Are a Lifeline in Prison. Trump Is Set on Keeping Them Exorbitant. Read Post »
From private prisons to health care scams, the attack on unhoused people is about exploitation, not safety.
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The US Is Criminalizing Homelessness and Expanding Incarceration. Who Profits? Read Post »
“Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.
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In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests Read Post »
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