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US prisons

April 2024

  • A stock image of a young hand in shadow holding an iron bar.

    How the US failed people in prisons during Covid: ‘Really important to learn from what happened’

  • a federal prison

    Abuse behind bars
    US federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

  • Journalist Salah Al-Ejaili at his home in Sweden

    ‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

  • Woman wearing black and white patterned shirt in front of beige wall looks to the right

    Abuse behind bars
    She repeatedly reported a prison guard’s sexual abuse. It took years for officials to believe her

  • He got a college degree in prison. Now he’s off to a prestigious law school

  • Nearly half of US prisons draw water likely contaminated with toxic PFAS – report

  • Incarcerated people in New York will get to see eclipse after settling lawsuit

  • ‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions

  • More than 150 people call on Missouri governor to forgive Brian Dorsey’s death penalty

March 2024

  • A white man wearing a hat, sunglasses, jeans and bulletproof vest walks through a parking lot carrying a machine gun pointed at the ground.

    Officials say two deaths possibly linked to escaped Idaho inmate

  • Police cars parked outside hospital with tape outside

    Idaho: white supremacist prisoner on the run after brazen hospital ambush

  • Black and white photo of bed, table, toilet and window

    Our unequal earth
    Rat fur, arsenic and copper: the dangerous ingredients lacing US prison water

  • A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif.

    Judge orders special master for California prison known for rampant sexual abuse

  • Mississippi police officer pleads guilty to forcing prisoner to drink his own urine

  • He was wrongfully imprisoned for 40 years. Now he’s an award-winning artist: ‘I turned my past into something good’

  • Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat

  • California prisoner donates earnings from 13-cent hourly wage to Gaza

February 2024

  • Glynn Simmons, who served 48 years in a US prison for a murder he didn’t commit

    I spent 48 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. Here’s how I fought my way to freedom

    Glynn Simmons was released last year after almost half a century behind bars. Now 70, he describes his torment and terror as he battled to overturn one of the worst miscarriages of justice in US history
  • an aerial view of a prison complex

    ‘Egregious’: Louisiana prisons have experienced 50% spike in deaths, report says

    Healthcare in the state’s prisons is known for being deathly inadequate – and the incarceration rate may keep growing
  • Jeff Landry<br>FILE - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. Five candidates vying to become Louisiana's next governor are set to take the stage Thursday evening, Sept. 7, 2023, for the first major televised gubernatorial debate this election season. Five weeks from Election Day, the debate will take place without the race's early front-runner, however. Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, opted to skip it after raising questions about one of the event's sponsors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    ‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana

    Reform advocates condemn raft of measures expected to pass under new far-right governor
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