Tag: prisons
Georgia Prisons Are in Crisis—and Punishing Trans Women for It
The Georgia Department of Corrections is in freefall. By the time the US Department ...
Pressure on Massachusetts to Ban Building of New Jails and Prisons
Families of incarcerated people are pressuring Massachusetts state lawmakers to pass a bill to ...
WA Prisons Expanded Gradual Reentry. COVID Is an Excuse to Block Us.
In 2018, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a Graduated Reentry (GRE) ...
Prisoner Who Sued for Access to OUD Meds Is in Solitary as “Retaliation”
The man at the center of a pivotal legal battle over access to methadone ...
Federal Prisons Director to Resign Amid Staff Corruption, COVID Failures
Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal is resigning in the wake of highly ...
The Data Gatekeeper Spinning Pennsylvania’s Prisons Narrative
In 2017, at the American Society of Criminology’s annual conference in Philadelphia, then-President James ...
De Blasio Rejects Decarceration as Human Rights Catastrophe Consumes Rikers
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declined to pursue decarceration for the Rikers ...
Judge Rules in Favor of New York Prisoner Suing for Methadone Access
A District Court judge has issued a preliminary injunction to ensure that a 35-year-old ...
Hundreds of WA Drug-War Prisoners Can Be Freed. We’re Still Waiting.
On February 25, a Washington Supreme Court ruling—commonly known as the Blake decision—effectively decriminalized ...
Initiative Aims to Increase Methadone, Bupe Access in Pennsylvania Jails
Jerome Maynor, 71-year-old Black man with opioid use disorder (OUD), was prescribed methadone. His ...
