Home Page > Briefings > Unsupportive environments and limited policies: Pregnancy,… Unsupportive environments and limited policies: Pregnancy, postpartum, and birth during incarceration Making up for a serious gap in government data collection and...
Elderly, ailing and expensive, lifetime prisoners cost Louisiana taxpayers millions a year. JUAN BERNABEU FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT By JOHN SIMERMAN BATON ROUGE, La. — Lester Pearson hoisted himself out of a chair and poked through his wallet with creased hands,...
They can’t go to classes or prison jobs, and they don’t have tablets or televisions. But they do have radios. Known to his listeners as “Megamind,” Ramy Hozaifeh is the voice — and the driving force — behind a new radio station run from inside one of the most...
Omicron Has Arrived. Many Prisons and Jails Are Not Ready. Experts fear “another potential tinderbox scenario” akin to the early days of the pandemic. An incarcerated person received a COVID-19 vaccination at the Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility in...
OPINION MICHELLE COTTLE – New York Times 12-20-21 Credit…Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Bettmann and johnnyscriv, via Getty Images By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. Each year, more than 650,000 people are...
Originally published in the Marshall Project on 5-22-2021 FEATURE Life Without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty — But the Legal Defense System Hasn’t Kept Up Just ask a Dallas woman who spent a year in jail without talking to a lawyer. JUAN BERNABEU FOR THE...
