criminal legal system

219 posts

Utica’s refugee community demands justice for 13-year-old boy killed by police

Karen refugee Nyah Mway was shot by police last June, fueling protests for accountability from the city and programs for local youth

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13 Min
By: Eric Santomauro-Stenzel

Never eat the candy on your pillow: You are what you eat

Incarcerated people have extremely limited choices when it comes to the food they have access to in prison. The steady diet of carbs and starch makes them sick

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4 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Time confines us all

I’m losing my mother. What can be done? Nothing. All I can do is be here for her from behind bars

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Trans women in New Jersey prisons say they’re forced to self-mutilate for gender-affirming surgeries

Faced with threats of harassment, violence, and assault, incarcerated trans women have been pushed to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care

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5 Min
By: Adam Rhodes

Never eat the candy on your pillow: The forgotten toys

Prisons tend to lump us all into the same “criminal” box, but our individual stories and journeys are unique

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4 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Activists say Kentucky’s new prison proposal is a step backward for environmental justice

The federal government says environmental justice communities deserve consideration. Does that apply to those incarcerated?

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

‘Everything in prison is done in a timely manner, except when our lives are on the line’

Prison is bound to a punitive clock—a clock that was ignored when it could have saved a life

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5 Min
By: Demetrius Buckley

Activists and survivors gather at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss reparative justice for those impacted by Holmesburg Prison experiments 

50 years after the Holmesburg Prison experiments ended, survivors and their families launch two events in Philadelphia calling for public education and reparations

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

People on death row are just as susceptible to election misinformation

Death row Republicans show us that hatred for the ‘other’ leads some incarcerated people to follow the algorithm of their own biases

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8 Min
By: Lyle C. May

The state of Missouri lynched Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams

Gov. Mike Parson’s racist and hypocritical pardon history reflects the U.S. criminal justice system’s insidious bedrock of white supremacy and Black dehumanization

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5 Min
By: Hannah Greene

A new digital archive makes public the trials and triumphs of jailhouse lawyers

The ‘Flashlights’ archive from Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative features more than 300 letters, poems, interviews, and pieces of artwork from incarcerated legal advocates

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Newsom’s California Model for prison reform is all smoke and mirrors

The failed model was supposed to help incarcerated people exactly like me

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6 Min
By: Tomiekia Johnson

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