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US prisons

June 2024

  • A single color image of a hand squashing a voter holding a ballot.

    American psyche
    She was sentenced to prison for voting. Her story is part of a Republican effort to intimidate others

    Crystal Mason was convicted of voter fraud after the 2016 election, when she cast a ballot without realizing she was ineligible to vote

May 2024

  • HARD MILES, Matthew Modine, 2023. © Blue Fox Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WTNG76 HARD MILES, Matthew Modine, 2023. © Blue Fox Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection Film still

    Hard Miles review – Matthew Modine takes troubled teens on a 700-mile cycle marathon

  • a hand wearing yellow band touches a blue phonebox

    The US might restrict social media in prisons and inmates are worried: ‘I may lose my voice soon’

  • book cover on top of barbed wire

    America’s unseen book bans: the long history of censorship in prisons

  • New York mayor Eric Adams at city hall on 12 December 2023. A Rikers Island building on 24 December 2013. Donald Trump in court in New York on 7 May 2024.

    Rikers Island jail ‘ready’ to receive Donald Trump, says Eric Adams

  • Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again

  • ‘Special treatment’: Harvey Weinstein in private unit in New York hospital

  • ‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners

  • Domestic violence victims are often criminalized. A California bill wants to change that

April 2024

  • A stock image of a young hand in shadow holding an iron bar.

    How the US failed people in prisons during Covid: ‘Really important to learn from what happened’

  • a federal prison

    Abuse behind bars
    US federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

  • Journalist Salah Al-Ejaili at his home in Sweden

    ‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

  • Benard McKinley speaks during his commencement as part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, on 15 November 2023.

    He got a college degree in prison. Now he’s off to a prestigious law school

  • Abuse behind bars
    She repeatedly reported a prison guard’s sexual abuse. It took years for officials to believe her

  • Nearly half of US prisons draw water likely contaminated with toxic PFAS – report

  • Incarcerated people in New York will get to see eclipse after settling lawsuit

  • ‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions

  • More than 150 people call on Missouri governor to forgive Brian Dorsey’s death penalty

March 2024

  • A white man wearing a hat, sunglasses, jeans and bulletproof vest walks through a parking lot carrying a machine gun pointed at the ground.

    Officials say two deaths possibly linked to escaped Idaho inmate

  • Police cars parked outside hospital with tape outside

    Idaho: white supremacist prisoner on the run after brazen hospital ambush

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