United States of America
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country.
United States: ‘torturous’ conditions in Mississippi prisons are ‘breeding ground for suicide’
Mina Corpuz with Mississippi Today and Daja E. Henry with The Marshall Project review their deep-dive reporting into suicides in Mississippi’s prisons. Inmates — including those known to pose harm to themselves — are often locked away in solitary confinement without adequate checks on their wellbei…United States: as Montana moves incarcerated people to a prison in Mississippi, families worry about losing contact
The Montana Department of Corrections plans to move hundreds of incarcerated people to Mississippi, adding obstacles and uncertainty for families trying to keep in touch with their loved ones.United States: lack of social justice programs fuels female incarceration rate
Female incarceration globally has increased 60% in the last 25 years. There are 740,000 women and girls incarcerated in jails and prisons worldwide; 200,000 of them are in the United States, according to a 2025 report from the Prison Policy Initiative.United States: food in New York prisons lacks nutritional balance, advocates say
Food in New York’s state prisons lacks nutritional balance, and issues with packages and commissary lead to minimal healthy options for those incarcerated, a report from the Correctional Association of New York found.United States: judge blocks transfer of former federal death row incarcerated people to maximum-security prison
A US federal judge temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to move 20 former federal death row incarcerated people to the country’s most restrictive correctional facility.United States: hundreds of incarcerated people in Missouri need court-ordered mental health services. The waitlist is growing
The number of Missourians waiting in jail for services from the state’s mental health department continues to rise, with a backlog of more than 500 people with stalled cases.United States: two Mississippi prisons temporarily lose power amid freezing temps from winter storm
The winter storm that pushed through the state temporarily knocked out power at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood, even as temperatures plunged below freezing.United States: for those with addiction, going into and coming out of prison can be a minefield
At the Ninilchik Community Clinic, patient was there to treat her opioid use disorder – a shot she thought might be her last for a while since there was a warrant out for her arrest. The Alaska Department of Corrections does not provide comprehensive access to this life saving medication.United States: behind bars and beyond justice, the price of prison labor
At any given time, nearly 2 million individuals are incarcerated in the United States. Rooted in the legacy of slavery, intensified by the war on drugs, and sustained by deeply embedded racial inequities, the U.S. legal structure has given rise to a sprawling system of mass incarceration.United States: mystery meat and maggot-infested produce, the disturbing reality of US prison food
In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to further punish incarcerated people in the US. At best you get “mystery meat”. Or “sour-smelling heaps” of macaroni. In the worst cases, it’s undercooked chicken, spoiled milk and maggot-infested produce.