incarcerated people rights

26 posts

 ‘I was silenced’: San Quentin News editor-in-chief fired for prison reform efforts

Having suffered in the prison system for 30 years, I just wanted to help people heal and get home to their families. Instead, prison administrators took away my platform and labeled me a threat.

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5 Min
By: Steve Brooks

Uncertainty surrounds the suspension of New York’s solitary confinement reform

As the correctional officers strike concluded last month, the state did not immediately explain which parts of the law that caps solitary confinement to 15 consecutive days would be suspended

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5 Min
By: Bianca Gonzalez

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Is this what you expected prison to be like?

Popcorn kernels explode under pressure, iron ore melts, and sand becomes molten glass. But what becomes of people confined inside the pressure cooker that is a prison?

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Prison breastfeeding program in Florida helps build bonds between incarcerated mothers and their infants

“I can’t hold him every day, but I take comfort knowing I’m still allowed to feed my child”

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5 Min
By: Catherine LaFleur

NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to allow ICE into Rikers worry immigrant rights advocates

Adams has not yet issued the executive order, but immigrant rights groups say the move would target immigrants presumed innocent while awaiting trial at the jail complex

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5 Min
By: Bianca Gonzalez

Oregon’s expansion of Medicaid coverage to incarcerated people sparks hope and skepticism

The new program aims to improve reentry outcomes, but critics question its effectiveness amid systemic health care issues in correctional facilities

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4 Min
By: Wesley Vaughan

Why don’t we know more about postpartum depression in the criminal legal system?

Women are the fastest-growing prison population, yet life-and-death issues related to pregnancy, including perinatal depression, are swept under the rug

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14 Min
By: Uzma Rentia

On parole for life

New Mexico artist Carlos Cervantes is a Chicano cultural icon. He’s also ensnared in the criminal legal system until he turns 101

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12 Min
By: Gustavo Martínez

In prison, paternalism is used as a tool for oppression

Policies and procedures enforced “for our own good” undermine our autonomy and agency, perpetuate power imbalances, and ignore the root causes of criminal behavior

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6 Min
By: Carla J. Simmons

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.

How prisons become ‘corridors of contagion’ during a pandemic

Victoria Law’s new book follows five incarcerated individuals who endured the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic behind bars

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5 Min
By: Britta Shoot

Prison telecom providers are shifting strategy by exploiting tablet services

Securus Technologies and ViaPath Technologies control about 80% of the U.S. market for phone and video calls in prisons and jails. With new federal regulations threatening their profits, the companies are pivoting to tablets.

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16 Min
By: Tatiana Walk-Morris

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