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Cadets Violently Strip Searched Us As Part of Their Training. For My Pain, I Got $325.

Willette Benford was one of several incarcerated women who sued the Illinois corrections department for using mass strip searches to train cadets. A small settlement check took her back to the shame and trauma of those incidents.

Life Inside • 05.06.2021

They Went to Jail. Then They Say They Were Strapped to a Chair for Days.

Allegations in a Missouri lawsuit shed light on how some jail officials use restraint chairs, which have been linked to dozens of deaths.

Feature • 02.07.2020

People on Probation and Parole Are Being Denied Perfectly Legal Medical Weed

Despite statewide legalization, some counties ban probationers and parolees from using medical marijuana. So the chronically ill turn to less effective and more addictive prescription drugs.

News • 01.17.2020

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