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After 20 Years in Prison, Jail is Still a Different Kind of Hell

...It was December 2022 in Washington State’s Pierce County Jail, where... ...It had been more than two decades since I first experienced county jail... ...A recent report by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office... ..., 35, who spent almost a year at Pierce County Jail awaiting trial...

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We Tracked 1,700 Campus Pro-Palestine Arrests. Here’s How Prosecutors Are Responding.

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He Rebuilt His Life After Prison. Then He Was Deported for a 23-Year-Old Drug Conviction.

...Samuel Anthony moved away from Sierra Leone at six years old.... ...Samuel’s parents brought him to America from Sierra Leone when he... ...Samilia and their brother, Shanel Anthony, say that Samuel is an... ...Samuel was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1972....

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The Executioner’s Last Meal

...meals, writes Lyle May, who is on death row in North Carolina.... ...The Executioner’s Last Meal Death row prisoners rarely get last...

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Incarcerated People Need AC to Combat Extreme Heat. New Climate Funding Could Help.

...A new federal program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund could... ...years of inaction, however, a new federal program called the Greenhouse Gas... ...Environmental Protection Agency announced nearly $20 billion in grants... ...Last year, the Texas House of Representatives twice passed a bill...

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New York Jail Throws Man in Solitary for Refusing to Work Without Pay, Lawsuit Says

...Pretrial detainees at New York’s Broome County Jail are forced to... ...A suit filed this week accuses Broome County Jail staff of using... ...Broome County and Trinity Services Group did not respond to requests... ...provider, Trinity Services Group. ...

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Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated

...Jodi Hocking, the founder and executive director of the Nevada-based... ...company Wellpath and prison dining company Trinity Services Group...

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How We Built a Database of Prison Commissary Prices

...Inside The Appeal’s 9-month investigation.... ...The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary... ...Senior Reporter Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg filed a public records... ...MDOC charged Weill-Greenberg about $5 for “labor fees” related to...

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How Kentucky’s Lack of Prison Education Programs Leads to Despair

...At Kentucky’s Northpoint Training Center, incarcerated people are... ...’s prison systems is the illusion of hopelessness it instills.... ...I've called Kentucky’s Northpoint Training Center my home for nearly... ...Per Kentucky Department of Corrections policy 18.1, the reclassification...

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Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Total Abortion Ban With Mandatory Prison Time

...The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state can enforce a near-total... ...The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state can simultaneously... ...Last year, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, issued an executive... ...Supreme Court overturned Roe v....