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 »
It took a grassroots push to win the legislation that offers more pay and an opportunity for reduced prison sentences.
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CA Relies on Incarcerated Firefighters. They Finally Make Federal Minimum Wage. Read Post »
At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail.
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New Film Exposes Deadly Houston Jail and “Unconstitutional” System of Cash Bail Read Post »
Having survived the most restrictive supermax prison in the country on a trumped-up charge, Eric King tells what he saw.
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Writer Who Survived ADX Supermax Prison Describes How It “Entombs” People Read Post »
Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass discusses settler violence, Israeli prisons, and the Gaza ceasefire.
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Israeli Settler Attacks in Occupied West Bank “Fit Into the Plan of the State” Read Post »
“It’s one of the most humiliating things one can go through,” said one woman jailed at Otay Mesa Detention Center.
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After Visits With Loved Ones, Some in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches Read Post »
“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.
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Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody Read Post »
Sam Bankman-Fried nervously sheds his dark brown prison jumpsuit to reveal athletic shorts and a loose-fitting gray T-shirt. “There’s this extremely dumb cat and mouse game where, for reasons no one has ever bothered to articulate, between the hours of like 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, the only clothing we’re allowed to wear […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the Multibillion-Dollar Drama Over FTX’s Ruins Read Post »
El Salvador has imprisoned women who suffered obstetric emergencies like miscarriages or stillbirths.
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After the Fall of “Roe,” Will El Salvador’s Total Abortion Ban Be Model for US? Read Post »
The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.
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Announcing the Winners of the 5th Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize Read Post »
The system has a way of reaching through generations, branding us as criminals when all we’re trying to do is survive.
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Mama, They Got Me Too: My Family Has Survived Incarceration Over Generations Read Post »
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