US prisons
‘Not intended to rehabilitate people’: inside America’s broken parole system
Documentary Nature of the Crime follows incarcerated men as they navigate a difficult and often politicized process
Radheyan Simonpillai
10, Dec, 2024 @10:01 AM
US shuts down prisons amid scrutiny over sexual abuse and crisis of suicides
Bureau of Prisons closes California facility and suspends operations at six others as rights activists call for clemency
Sam Levin in Los Angeles
05, Dec, 2024 @10:55 PM
Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ Virginia prison conditions
Officials acknowledge prisoners have harmed themselves but say they did not set themselves on fire or self-immolate
Julian Roberts-Grmela
30, Nov, 2024 @4:00 PM
Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’
President can secure civil liberties, accelerate spending on climate and healthcare, and spare death row prisoners
David Smith in Washington
24, Nov, 2024 @12:00 PM
Biden urged to use clemency powers to tackle ‘crisis’ of US mass incarceration
Members of Congress call on president to pardon or commute sentences before he leaves White House
Ed Pilkington
20, Nov, 2024 @9:20 PM
Killings, stabbings, drugs: DoJ report paints damning picture of Atlanta jail
Investigators find prisoners at Fulton county jail, Georgia’s largest, tunneling through walls and violence unchecked
George Chidi in Atlanta
14, Nov, 2024 @11:33 PM
California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor
Prop 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude in prisons, fails in blow to criminal justice reform advocates
Sam Levin and agency
11, Nov, 2024 @7:26 PM
Florida bail bondsman accused of coercing women to have sex for bond
Russell Bruce Moncrief, 75, faces counts of human trafficking and racketeering over ‘sickening scheme’
Ramon Antonio Vargas
01, Nov, 2024 @7:52 PM
Idaho jailed her for registering to vote. She says she’ll never vote again
Laurie Erickson says the department of corrections didn’t tell her she couldn’t vote, but the district attorney pressed charges anyway
Erin Sheridan
23, Oct, 2024 @6:00 PM
Incarcerated Californians can’t vote. A prison held an election anyway
Voters in a mock election at San Quentin revealed strong feelings about prison labor, wages and the presidential race
Juan Moreno Haines in San Quentin and Sam Levin in Los Angeles
20, Oct, 2024 @1:00 PM
‘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
In 1982 Nick Yarris was wrongly convicted of a murder he didn’t commit and spent 22 years in prison. Here, he and the Oscar-winning actor reflect on bringing Yarris’s inspiring life story to the theatre
Tim Lewis
13, Oct, 2024 @9:00 AM
They wrote a book while locked in solitary confinement. Texas won’t let them read it
Incarcerated people are barred from reading a collection of their own letters – and 10,000 other texts – in a state where hundreds remain isolated after a decade or more
Damascus James
11, Oct, 2024 @9:00 AM
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