Tag: incarceration
Gasping for Justice: People Jailed in the Pandemic Refuse to Be Silenced
What do you do if you want the voices of incarcerated people at the ...
Texas Is Now the Epicenter for Coronavirus in Carceral Settings
Severe COVID-19 outbreaks threaten the lives of people incarcerated across Texas. Several jail and ...
St. Louis Is a Big Step Closer to Closing the Workhouse
In St. Louis, Missouri—arguably the birthplace of the modern movement for Black lives—a city ...
Despite Voting Rights Reform, Many People With Felonies Excluded From NJ Primary
New Jersey held primary elections on July 7, including hotly contested Congressional races for ...
California Sheriff Sued for Keeping People Jailed as COVID-19 Rages
A group of attorneys filed a class action lawsuit on May 29 against Sheriff ...
People With Mental Health Diagnoses Left Out of “Historic” NYC Decarceration
The number of New Yorkers in the city’s infamous jail system hit what Mayor ...
California Strips Incarcerated People of Complaints Rights During Pandemic
In September last year, the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit working for incarcerated people ...
Even Jails Are Decarcerating More Than State Prisons
State prisons’ efforts to decarcerate during the COVID-19 crisis seem to have been eclipsed ...
Locked in a Crowded TV Room: Pandemic Revelations From a Federal Prison
Like many others affected by the coronavirus crisis, Simon,* a 43-year-old Black man, was ...
The CDC Must Adopt Decarceration as a Matter of Public Health
Even before COVID-19 upended American social and economic life, mass incarceration was devastating communities ...
