criminal injustice

When the Prison Grievance Process Is Worth the Risk

For nearly three decades, I've been hearing people scream for help. Screams of people being raped, robbed, stabbed. Screams of…

August 5, 2024

“Soups Will Cook There”: How Prisons Became Heat Traps by Design

Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States were built with 10- to 14-foot…

July 24, 2024

Family Demands Justice for D’Vontaye Mitchell, Killed in Milwaukee

D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man, died after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards at the Hyatt Regency…

July 24, 2024

Child Drug Exposure Cases, and the Vilification of Parents Who Use Drugs

The woman, flanked by detectives in the video, hangs her head as they cuff her. “It never should have happened,”…

July 22, 2024

“A Moral Crime”: 22 Years in Solitary, and the Prison System That Watched

At age 18, Frank De Palma entered Nevada Department of Corrections custody on a 10-year sentence for a nonviolent felony.…

July 18, 2024

Feds Have Deported Over 500,000 People for Drugs Since 2002

The federal government has deported hundreds of thousands of people over drug convictions in recent years, details a new report—even…

July 16, 2024

“Let’s Go After This Whole Thing”—DULF Challenges Criminal Charges

Vancouver’s drug-user rights movement is bracing for what could be yet another long legal battle ahead, as the Drug User…

June 20, 2024

As Waupun Correctional Staff Arrested for Abuse, Lockdown Drags On

After Dean Hoffman was transferred to Waupun Correctional Institution in April 2023, his daughter noticed a difference right away. Somehow…

June 14, 2024

How Prison Guard Became the Job Everyone Leaves

Lonnie, in his late 40s, was a high school teacher for 20 years before he came to prison. He and…

June 4, 2024

Watching the Trump Trials in Prison, With Con Artists Cheering Him On

Our living unit at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee doesn't have a communal TV, but there are TVs in…

May 15, 2024