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US prisons

August 2024

  • This image released by Netflix shows Aubrey Smith in a scene from "Daughters." (Netflix via AP)

    Daughters review – tender, wrenching film about a dance date for girls and their jailed dads

  • Colman Domingo in Sing Sing.

    Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison musical

  • a pale blue building with sign reading 'microtel'

    Escaped prisoner serving murder sentence caught at North Carolina hotel

  • Prison fence with razor wire against a sunny sky

    America's dirty divide
    ‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates

  • America's dirty divide
    In Alaska, advocates say reducing prison population is a key climate strategy

  • Daughters review – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

  • Texas lockups violate minors’ constitutional rights, says US justice department

  • Alabama jailer pleads guilty in death of prisoner who froze to death in cell

  • US reacts to major prisoner swap with Russia: ‘feat of diplomacy’ and ‘joyous’

July 2024

  • A guard tower and razor wire are seen at California State Prison

    Phone calls from prison are finally being capped at 6 cents a minute. But there’s more to do

    Katrina vanden Heuvel
    For such activists, the FCC’s new regulations represent a good start – and just that
  • ‘I saw it as theatrical’ … Armand Schaubroeck.

    ‘We never stole from kids, just insured places’: Armand Schaubroeck, the ex-con muse of Andy Warhol

    A gangster at 14 and in maximum security prison by 17, he turned his experiences into warped rock that thrilled New York’s art scene. Fifty years on he recalls one of music’s strangest careers
    • ‘It’s about the bravery the girls had to find’: the prison film where convicts dance with their daughters

    • New York City mayor Eric Adams blocks ban on solitary confinement

    • ‘Like an oven’: death at US women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help

June 2024

  • A walled and fenced jail building

    Illinois man reportedly died after being beaten by guards while handcuffed

  • Julian Assange in 2006.

    Julian Assange: the WikiLeaks founder’s fight for freedom – in pictures

  • two men wearing tan jumpsuits stand around white backs on sand and look at two men in police uniform

    ‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state

  • Man wearing jail uniform looks into camera

    Accused lookout in James ‘Whitey’ Bulger prison killing gets time served

  • Oklahoma law to allow resentencing for incarcerated domestic violence survivors

  • He was falsely convicted of murder. So he studied law in prison – and freed himself

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