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80% of people who died from COVID in Texas jails had never been convicted
A harrowing new report from the UT Austin has examined the impact of COVID-19 on prisons and jails. Texas correctional facilities lead the country in COVID infections, with more than 23,000 cases and...
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Boston Marathon Bomber sues over his right to wear a baseball cap in prison
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is the surviving of the two Boston Marathon Bombers. Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, who was very possibly an FBI informant, was believed to be the mastermind behind the attacks;...
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Wanted man turns himself in to get away from COVID lockdown roommates
Yesterday, a fellow walked into the Burgess Hill Police Station in Sussex, England and surrendered himself to the cops. The man was wanted on "recall to prison," which means the person was released...
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Police officers and prison guards have some of the highest rates of COVID-19
COVID-19 was the leading cause of death among active duty police in 2020, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. 264 federal, state, military, tribal, and local law...
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Malcolm X's former prison cell to be library for incarcerated people
The Boston Globe reports that Reginald Dwayne Betts, a MacArthur Award-winning poet who himself spent eight years in prison, plans to convert a prison cell at MCI-Norfolk into a new "Freedom Library,"...
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UK court rules Julian Assange can be extradited to US after "assurances" of...
A British court today permitted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the U.S. on "espionage" charges, reversing an earlier ruling that cited Assange's mental health and the brutal...
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South Carolina re-instates death by firing squad, schedules first execution
In March 2022, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced that it would now offering execution by firing squad, for those incarcerated people who are eligible to be legally slaughtered at...
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Dave tells the story behind his killer bread
If you've ever picked up a loaf of Dave's Killer Bread, you may have noticed an intriguing story on the package. It shares that its cofounder, Dave Dahl, was once in prison but got his second chance by...
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The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, a documentary about prison and its life in...
I learn best from documentaries. The visuals and narratives help me remember the content, analysis, and insights, particularly when the content is intense or engaging with critical social issues. In...
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No Human Involved: a documentary about Perryville women's prison in Arizona
The United States incarcerates a quarter of the world's imprisoned population. Arizona is number five regarding incarcerated persons per capita; the rate has ballooned by 60% between 2000 and 2018....
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The Corrections Project documentary series tackles America's carceral state
Check out the Corrections Documentary Project organized by Ashley Hunt. The first discusses the impact of private prison industries on public prisons, the war on terror, immigration, and border...
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Prisons addicted to using drugs to control prisoners
In the United States, the criminal punishment system responds to addiction as a criminal issue, not a health issue. As a result, people with addictions often find themselves in jail or prison rather...
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The Drapetomania Collective in Arizona is researching conditions of...
Since 2012, the Arizona Department of Corrections has, on multiple occasions, been found in violation of a Federal Court order concerning health care as a result of a lawsuit, Parsons v. Ryan. The suit...
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Alan Dershowitz envisions Trump as the first President serving from prison
Attorney Alan Dershowitz, whose friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and admiration for Donald Trump have made him persona non grata among his former friends on Martha's Vineyard makes the case that Trump...
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Superpredator panics, Three Strikes Laws, and other failed reforms
In 2015, before Hilary Clinton was running for president against Donald Trump, what would have happened in the Democratic party had gotten behind Bernie Sanders? Wait, that is a different post....
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The Prison Creative Arts Project showcases paintings, sculptures and drawings...
For the last quarter of a century, plus another year, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), out of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, has organized an Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan...
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Exonerated inmate and retired teacher meet after 25 years of being pen pals
In this touching CBS Sunday Morning video, we see the incredible story of an unusual friendship. Lamar Johnson, who was serving a life sentence in Missouri for murder, began writing to retired...
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"Pretty person" Elizabeth Holmes still avoiding prison
"They don't put pretty people like me in jail," Holmes once told a Walgreens consultant, and it appears she is fighting to prove herself true. A last-minute appeal has triggered an automatic delay of...
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"Who Would Believe a Prisoner?" chronicles America's first separate prison...
I remember reading Anastazia Schmid's essay, "Crafting the Perfect Woman: How Gynecology, Obstetrics, and American Prisons Operate to Construct and Control Women," published in "Abolition: A Journal of...
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Prisoners' headstones in New York now humanized with names, not just ID numbers
New York state officials recently decided to humanize the headstones of deceased prisoners by including their names, and dates of birth and death, rather than just identification numbers. This change...
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