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July 15, 2021
Inside The Nation’s Overdose Crisis in Prisons and Jails
Behind bars, drug use is rampant and uniquely deadly, new data shows.
By
Beth Schwartzapfel
and
Jimmy Jenkins
Feature
July 29, 2020
Your Local Jail May Be A House of Horrors
But you probably wouldn’t know it, because sheriffs rule them with little accountability. After one man's death in a notorious lockup, residents of a Missouri town fought back.
By
Maurice Chammah
Commentary
October 22, 2017
Bad Bail Practices and Immigration Policy Led To My Client’s Death At Rikers
Selmin Feratovic might be alive today if not for our deeply broken system.
By
Anisha Gupta
News
April 28, 2017
Just Another Week in Hell
The news from your local lockup is not good.
By
Ken Armstrong
Life Inside
November 17, 2016
My Daughter Died After Spending Four Days in Jail
“Her eyes were slightly open, but vacant.”
By
Stephanie Moyer
Feature
July 6, 2016
Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport
Tens of thousands of people every year are packed into vans run by for-profit companies with almost no oversight.
By
Eli Hager
and
Alysia Santo
News
August 4, 2015
Why Jails Have More Suicides than Prisons
A new report and a growing phenomenon.
By
Tom Meagher
and
Maurice Chammah
News
July 22, 2015
The Sandra Bland Breakthrough
It’s not just black men who matter.
By
Maura Ewing
Commentary
June 9, 2015
Fixing the Jail Where Kalief Browder was Held
Former corrections chief Martin Horn has some ideas for Rikers Island.
By
Martin F. Horn
News
April 22, 2015
When Your Insulin Pump is Contraband
What diabetics face behind bars.
By
Christie Thompson