Tag: incarceration
Alabama Parole Board’s Cruel and Unprecedented Increase in Denials
Representative Chris England, the chairman of the Alabama Democrats, does not mince words when ...
Prisoners Sue After Drug Testing of Their Legal Mail Gave False Positives
Incarcerated people‘s legal mail falsely tested positive for drugs, according to a lawsuit filed ...
Abusive “Rehab” and Other Harms of Sri Lanka’s Militarized Drug War
In Sri Lanka, 2 grams of heroin can get you the death penalty. People ...
Our Prison Is Closing, With a Bitter Legacy of Contrasting Deaths
Every year on the last Friday afternoon in January, bagpipes can be heard from ...
NY Assembly Passes Bill Ensuring Prisoners Access to Methadone, Bupe
New York made history on May 26 by passing legislation that will ensure people ...
New York Abolished Long-Term Solitary. Will Guards Get With the Program?
On April 1, after eight years of a determined grassroots campaign, the HALT Act ...
In Upstate New York, a Jail Keeps Blocking Access to Lifesaving OUD Meds
[This story is published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, investigative news ...
Report Exposes Mistreatment of Pregnant People in Federal Custody
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and US Marshals Service (USMS) policies for the treatment of ...
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty in the US
In July 2020, the federal government shocked activists and advocate by resurrecting the death ...
Uprooting the Drug War: Initiative Details Harms to Immigrants and Much More
Imagine this: Two people walk down opposite sides of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Both ...
