prisoner rights
‘I Begged Them To Let Me Die’: How Federal Prisons Became Coronavirus Death Traps
Prisons quarantined sick and healthy inmates together and continued moving prisoners and staff around facilities as the outbreak spread.
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Warned of Coronavirus Danger in Prison Where a Woman Just Died After Giving Birth
A staffer at a federal prison in Texas described looming “catastrophe” after 30-year-old Andrea Circle Bear gave birth while on a ventilator.
New report calls for Ontario to overhaul when it locks up prisoners in solitary
The report comes as Ontario announced the construction of two new large jails
New Report Slams New Zealand's Degrading Treatment of Prisoners and Mentally Ill
Isolation rooms for children, tie-down chairs for prisoners, solitary confinement for the mentally ill: NZ's use of solitary is in breach of international standards.
Immigrant Detainees Are Staging a Hunger Strike in Washington
The detainees, many of them facing deportation, claim that the food at Northwest Detention Center is meager and nearly inedible.
'Those Visits Were Everything': How Prison Visitation Cuts Devastate Families
Buried in the New York state budget is a proposal to cut weekday visits for over 20,000 inmates. For families of incarcerated people, this could mean barely having any real contact with their loved ones.
Turkey Is Planning the World's First Openly Gay Prison
The justice minister announced that Turkey has come up with an initiation to “protect convicts” by constructing separate LGBT prisons.