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News July 15
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
Newly arrived prisoners wait to be processed at the state prison in Jackson, Georgia, in 2011.
News December 3, 2019
The Growing Racial Disparity in Prison Time
A new study finds black people are staying longer in state prisons, even as they face fewer arrests and prison admissions overall.
By Weihua Li
Life Inside October 18, 2018
The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison
“I didn’t have a way to communicate. And they basically just flipped me the bird.”
By Jeremy Woody as told to Christie Thompson
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