Jails are some of the deadliest facilities in the U.S., and they continue to operate as black holes with very little oversight from the counties and sheriffs that run them
Prison is bound to a punitive clock—a clock that was ignored when it could have saved a life
Rejected Proposition 6 would have banned forced prison labor, while Proposition 36 passed to restore higher penalties on some drug and theft offenses
Many incarcerated people feel disillusioned by the American political system, but you have to understand it’s not that we don’t care. We have been told we don’t have the right to care
50 years after the Holmesburg Prison experiments ended, survivors and their families launch two events in Philadelphia calling for public education and reparations
Death row Republicans show us that hatred for the ‘other’ leads some incarcerated people to follow the algorithm of their own biases
The failed model was supposed to help incarcerated people exactly like me
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