Tag: incarceration
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 ...
“They Want to Do Me In”: The Prisoner Who Fought COVID Overcrowding
In May, as COVID-19 loomed over incarcerated people across the country, Ivan Von Staich ...
Illinois Set to Become the First State to Eliminate Cash Bail
Illinois will make history by becoming the first US state to end cash bail. ...
Biden Ending Federal Contracts With Private Prisons; Private ICE Detention Continues
On January 26, President Joe Biden signed a series of executive actions focused on ...
