incarcerated people rights

26 posts

Protest outside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s mansion calls for better treatment of Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli

Xinachtli, a Chicano Indigenous activist imprisoned for over two decades, did not receive proper health care after a bad fall in the shower, activists say

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3 Min
By: David Cervantes

How ‘routine’ strip searches traumatize people in U.S. prisons

In my 20 years of incarceration, I’ve been strip-searched at least 500 times. Each was an act of humiliation and sexual violence

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6 Min
By: Carla J. Simmons

Vermont Department of Corrections once claimed to support abolition and is now aggressively pursuing a new prison

The “pinkwashing” of prisons ramps up in Vermont, where local officials are pushing for the construction of a “gender-responsive” facility

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10 Min
By: Sierra Dickey

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says

A Department of Justice memo obtained by Prism says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order

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4 Min
By: Adam Rhodes

New York prisons are still struggling to resume normal operations nearly a year after illegal officers’ strike

New York’s prison system didn’t collapse simply due to understaffing, but rather a longstanding culture of minimal accountability for officers

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4 Min
By: Devin A. Giordano

‘What could we build instead of prisons?’: New projects at the intersection of abolition and design

Collaborations between Designing Justice + Designing Spaces and the furniture firm Formr offer a new approach to transitional housing

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7 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

What it’s like to be pregnant in jail

Behind bars, pregnant women are ignored at best, abused and traumatized at worst

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5 Min
By: Marissa Potts

New helpline aims to help incarcerated people evade the ‘prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline’

Freedom for Immigrants recently launched Project Keep Away, a first-of-its-kind hotline, in two California women’s prisons

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3 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Bringing home the bacon

The exorbitant cost of food in prison is hard for some people to believe, but the price of a single package of commissary bacon tells the story

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6 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

In aftermath of correctional officers strike, New York’s incarcerated population faces the brunt of uncertainty

The strike disrupted many aspects of prison life, such as access to food, showers, medication, recreation, and legislative protections

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4 Min
By: Robert Pastore

Incarcerated workers in California organize against unjust policies and degrading conditions

Dozens of men inside Centinela State Prison participated in a work slowdown last year to protest inadequate commissary access and daily strip searches tied to jobs with the California Prison Industry Authority

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8 Min
By: James Anderson

Becoming institutionalized: The fight to preserve a sense of self and sanity in prison

“Being insti” is a state of anxiety that has long-term detrimental effects on incarcerated people. After over 10 years in prison, I wonder how much of myself will be left when I finally go home.

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3 Min
By: Olethus Hill Jr.

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