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‘Zombie Prisons’: How ICE Detention Is Raising Troubling Facilities From the Dead

ICE needs more detention space, and it’s faster to open old facilities than to build new ones.

Analysis • 08.29.2025

Why Closing Prisons — Even Bad Ones — Is Complicated

From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have mixed emotions.

Closing Argument • 07.19.2025

For a Prison Transfer 45 Minutes Away, I Spent 12 Days in Hell

From feces on the wall to constant gang calls, LaMarr W. Knox details the horrors of the transit unit at New York’s Green Haven prison.

Life Inside • 12.13.2024

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