Month: January 2024

MDOC prisoner vows hunger strike if his sexual assault complaint is not investigated

  • Molly Minta
  • January 11, 2024
  • Mississippi Today

A prisoner at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, a state prison once deemed among the worst for sexual misconduct in the nation, has pledged to go on another hunger strike if the Mississippi Department of Corrections fails to investigate his allegations that a guard inappropriately touched him during a pat down. The status of Garnett

Holidays can be ‘horrible time’ for families dealing with rising costs of incarceration

  • N'dea Yancey-Bragg
  • December 23, 2023
  • USA Today

Like many Americans, Santia Nance plans to celebrate Christmas with her loved ones. Doing so will be more challenging for Nance: Her fiancé is incarcerated in a Virginia prison and she said it’s been more difficult to visit since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nance, a co-founder of Sistas in Prison Reform, which advocates for

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