North America
Far from loved ones
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Social ties
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Second piece: maintaining bonds.
North America
Women
Torture
Violence
United States
Despite highly publicized arrests and promises of change, sexual abuse and retaliation continue at the prison in Dublin, California.
North America
Access to legal rights
Health
United States
Mississippi prison health care contractors withheld cancer diagnosis and treatment for years, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges.
Incarcerated for life
Analysis
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Long-term prisoners
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. First piece: life imprisonment.
North America
Health
Material conditions
United States
Decarceration advocates are fighting to free older inmates as temperatures soar to deadlier heights.
North America
Justice
Material conditions
Canada
Over the past year, records indicate that at least 24 offenders had their incarceration time reduced due to frequent lockdowns, pest infestations, and other harsh treatment at the Toronto South Detention Centre in Etobicoke, near Kipling Avenue and the Gardiner Expressway.
North America
Justice
Health
United States
Antonio Arnez Smith was granted medical furlough in September but was not released to his family until October. He died four days later.
North America
Material conditions
Facilities
United States
Additional inmate housing units and an outdoor recreation area along with access to Native American religious leaders must be implemented as part of a settlement with dozens of inmates.
United States: private equity is using prison phone, food and health systems to rack up profits
News
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Material conditions
Facilities
United States
Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.
North America
Long-term prisoners
Activities
United States
We’re all too willing to argue about the inhumanity of executions. What about those of us who are still alive?
North America
Justice
Material conditions
United States
A tentative settlement in the amount of $4 million was presented on Thursday with regard to a class action lawsuit alleging inhumane living conditions and unethical treatment incurred by inmates at Southern Regional Jail.
North America
Health
Material conditions
United States
Democratic lawmakers are introducing a package of legislation that they say will counter inhumane conditions in Wisconsin’s prisons and county jails.
North America
Material conditions
United States
The Missouri Justice Coalition is about to launch its first town hall tour focusing on state prison conditions.
North America
Mental health
Material conditions
United States
The position appears to have been eliminated last year.
North America
Health
Mental health
United States
Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a treatable and preventable infection from a foot wound.