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October 2024

  • HMP Wandsworth in London. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Corbis/Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope – podcast

  • a women sitting down outside

    Idaho jailed her for registering to vote. She says she’ll never vote again

  • A graphic illustration of a hand in an orange sleeve holding a ballot.

    Incarcerated Californians can’t vote. A prison held an election anyway

  • Adrien Brody and Nick Yarris photographed together in London before the opening of The Fear of 13.

    ‘I could not get through the script without crying’: Adrien Brody talks to the death row survivor who he’s playing on the London stage

  • They wrote a book while locked in solitary confinement. Texas won’t let them read it

  • Several Florida jails and prisons refuse to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton

  • Involuntary servitude still exists in California. A ballot measure in November could change that

September 2024

  • a man in a shirt, vest and hat smiles for a photograph against a black and yellow backdrop

    Sing Sing actor JJ Velazquez exonerated after wrongful conviction

  • banned books in prison

    Activists ‘fight against censorship’ in the largest US book bans: prisons

  • prisoners arrive in a van at HMP Wandsworth in London.

    The long read
    ‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope

  • A yellow and orange illustration of a person, wearing a tank top, pants and shoes, lying in a fetal position within a box.

    America's dirty divide
    ‘Even the breeze was hot’: how incarcerated people survive extreme heat in prison

  • ‘He deserves to live’: South Carolina to execute first man in 13 years despite doubts raised by evidence

  • Wife of California prisoner wins $5.6m after ‘egregious’ prison strip-search

  • Former hitman sentenced to 25 years in prison killing of gangster Whitey Bulger

  • California bill aims to end ‘dangerous barrier’ to menstrual care in prisons

  • Medical provider to US jails failing to keep its patients alive, advocates say

  • DoJ opens investigation into sexual abuse at California women’s prisons

  • Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is magnetic in moving real-life US prison drama

August 2024

  • An undated photo provided by the South Carolina department of corrections shows the state’s death chamber, including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left in Columbia, South Carolina.

    South Carolina prepares for first execution in more than 13 years

  • Colman Domingo in Sing Sing.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison drama

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