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At New Mexico’s biggest jail for children, toilets and staff are lacking — but strip searches are common.
By Joshua Bowling On July 19, 2023 The décor inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center (YSC) is more in line with the children’s wing of your local library than…
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Voting Rights Restored for Minnesota Felons
Minnesota has passed a new law restoring voting rights for people who are not currently incarcerated. By Kyla Jackson Published: Jul. 13, 2023 at 5:13 PM MDT People across the state are…
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Michigan governor signs legislation expanding voting rights
Published 4:22 PM MDT, July 18, 2023 LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed a bipartisan package of bills into law to expand voter rights by allowing…
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Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
By Hannah Beckler On July 23, 2023 In a photo taken in December 2003, two US military dog handlers, Sgts. Santos Cardona and Michael Smith, corner a detainee at Abu…
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These States Are Using Fetal Personhood to Put Women Behind Bars
By Cary Aspinwall On July 25, 2023 Hundreds of women who used drugs while pregnant have faced criminal charges — even when they deliver healthy babies. When Quitney Armstead learned…
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133 Degrees and No AC: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heat
By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg On July 18, 2023 With heat indexes in the area regularly hitting triple digits, children incarcerated at Louisiana’s Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for…
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Illinois is first state to eliminate cash bail, a penalty affecting low-income communities most
By John O’Conner On July 18, 2023 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release from…
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A play written and performed by men in prison hopes to change state’s parole laws
By Francia Garcia Hernandez On July 18, 2023 Theatre Y worked with 12 men at Stateville Correctional Center to create the play Editor’s note: The article has been updated to…
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California’s prison-to-homelessness pipeline
By Simone Weichselbaum, Andrew Blankstein and Alexandra Chaidez On July 18, 2023 Thousands of former inmates are adding to a growing homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, an NBC News investigation…
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