I Had a High-Risk Pregnancy in Jail — Then I Gave Birth in Chains
When Rebecca Figueroa was arrested two months into her pregnancy, she didn’t worry because she wasn’t guilty. But seven months later, she was still in jail and totally unprepared for a high-risk pregnancy, childbirth in restraints and the constant fear of losing her...
Warden escorted out of Limestone Correctional Facility
By Matt Kroschel Mar 29, 2022 Updated Mar 29, 2022 Limestone Correctional Facility Explosive allegations have been coming out of Alabama's largest prison, and the WAAY 31 I-Team is breaking new information, despite the Alabama Department of Corrections refusing to...
Penetrating the ‘Black Box’ of Criminal Justice Data
By Amy Bach | March 29, 2022 LIKETWEET EMAILPRINTMORE Photo by luckey_sun via Flickr New York State’s criminal justice data infrastructure fails to meet basic levels of transparency that are critical for evidence-based decision making and general accountability. What...
Opinion: The cost of prison phone calls is staggering. Congress has a chance to change that.
By Editorial Board March 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Listen to article 2 min An inmate uses a phone at the Cook County Jail in Chicago on June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Picking up the phone and placing a call in the United States today requires little...
New York’s Bail Laws, Reconsidered: 5 Things to Know
Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing legislative leaders to adopt changes to the state’s bail laws as part of the state budget, due April 1. Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed allowing judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness to the community in deciding whether to set...
He Wrote a Rap Song. It Helped Put Him in Prison for Life.
By Jaeah Lee Ms. Lee is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a 2021-22 Knight-Wallace reporting fellow. March 30, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Tommy Munsdwell Canady was in middle school when he wrote his first rap lyrics. He started out freestyling for...
Who’s Electing Judges in the Cleveland Area? Not Those Ensnared in the System
In Cuyahoga County, voting patterns have resulted in mostly White judges deciding the fate of mostly Black criminal defendants. Cuyahoga County’s voting patterns have resulted in mostly White judges deciding the guilt or innocence of the county’s mostly Black criminal...
I’m a Pakistani-American Muslim in a Prison 5 Miles From the Twin Towers. Since 9/11, I’ve Been Treated Like the Enemy
LIFE INSIDE It doesn’t matter how American I feel. The labels applied to me are “foreign,” “terrorist,” “inmate” and “other.” by TARIQ MAQBOOL In late January, I was sitting in my cell in New Jersey State Prison listening to NPR when the news came across the airwaves:...
Today Was a Good Day
Tammara McCoy’s three children—and her 4-year-old granddaughter—trekked to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to celebrate the holidays with her. An intimate look at their bittersweet visit. Tammara McCoy, who is currently serving her time at Bedford Hills...
“Daddy, if I Come See You, Will I Have to Be Locked up, Too?”
Recently reunited with his 10-year-old daughter, Demetrius Buckley struggles to push past the barriers of a maximum security prison to be present for his curious, whip-smart little girl. By DEMETRIUS BUCKLEY Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal...