When the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced in April of this year that it was closing the federal women’s prison in Dublin, California, there were some people who celebrated the news. I understand why: Detention facilities are cruel and dehumanizing places. One less prison in this country — especially one as nightmarish as Dublin — feels
Taliyah Murphy, a transgender woman living in Colorado Springs, studies accounting and finance. She co-owns two small businesses with her fiancé and eventually wants to start a financial education nonprofit for marginalized people. For Murphy, starting her gender transition helped her focus on her education as she developed her career—but she faced near-impossible barriers at
Wendy Morales said she was surprised when an officer asked her to take her top off. It came during her first moments at the Lane Murray Unit — a prison under the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — last August. Morales said Sgt. Nathaniel Aviles told her that he — not a female guard, as
Learn about Farmer v. Brennan Good morning and happy Tuesday! June 6, 2024 marked the thirty year anniversary of Farmer v. Brennan, a landmark Supreme Court case in which ruled (in a rare unanimous decision) that a prison official’s “deliberate indifference” to the safety and dignity of someone incarcerated violates the cruel and unusual punishment
Children in Georgia’s youth detention facilities are in danger — and have been for some time. In 2019, the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a study highlighting the rampant sexual abuse at the Macon Youth Development Center, Georgia’s only residential facility for girls. A staggering 19 percent of kids at Macon who took