Why protecting prisons from COVID-19 is everyone’s problem
Understanding how the coronavirus threatens the lives of prisoners and prison officers is crucial to combating its spread and to safeguarding incarcerated people.
Read moreWhen a private prison company came to small-town Wyoming
Should companies profit from incarceration? In one Wyoming town, residents grapple with the costs of building a private immigration detention center.
Read moreJustice during pandemic: Police seek to protect public and prisoners
Right now, public safety means reducing the number of people in jails. Are measures taken to reduce overcrowding during the pandemic likely to lead to permanent change in how prisoners are cared for?
Read moreInnocence detectives: The exonerated men who now work to free others
Christopher Scott and Steven Phillips, two men who were wrongly imprisoned, don’t spend their days railing against the justice system. They are helping others who may have been falsely convicted.
Read moreAmid debate on prison reform, rising voices from the inside
When it comes to conditions inside prisons, should prisoners have a voice? That’s one of the questions raised by a three-week strike by inmates in more than a dozen states.
Read moreFor Texas town, reopening a detention center means jobs – and mixed emotions
You might think a town that is almost 90 percent Latino would be fighting to keep an old immigration detention center closed. But many are desperate for it to reopen. The story of Raymondville, Texas, shows that life near the border is more complicated than outsiders might think.
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