If you thought the confined spaces of cruise ships, nursing homes and once-crowded bars were especially bad petri dishes for the spread of the coronavirus – think again. Public health officials, medical experts, lawmakers and inmates are bracing for the outbreak to continue crippling overstuffed prisons and jails across the country. “The projections for the toll that
“John moderates a panel discussion on the criminal justice system, incarceration and how to write about them. What’s real, what’s myth, and what stories need to be told? Guests include incarceration policy experts Aly Tamboura and Lovisa Stannow, writer Zach Calig of For Life, and documentarian Dan Birman (Me Facing Life).” Listen to the episode
In 2019, the Alabama prison system had one of its most violent years in a decade. Sixteen prisoners were killed. UNIONTOWN, Ala. – At her home in this tiny town in west Alabama, Sandy Ray settled into a plush recliner, sandwiched between two photos of her son: one printed on her black T-shirt, the other
A former guard at a Missouri women’s prison has been accused by a fifth woman who says the guard sexually assaulted her more than 52 times. The woman filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the Western District of Missouri against Edward Bearden, a former guard at Chillicothe Correctional Center, about 120 miles northeast
The state’s lone correctional facility for girls and young women has among the highest rates of sexual abuse of any juvenile facility in the country, according to new federal data. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics issued a report in December that found 14% of the girls and young women housed at Oak Creek Youth
