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Prisons

  1. trans rights
    What Really Happened to Layleen Polanco?Polanco died in solitary confinement at Rikers last year. Now her family has reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city.
    By Hannah Gold
  2. solidarity
    Inmates Across the Nation Are Striking Against ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ in PrisonHow to support the incarcerated people protesting against inhumane, brutal conditions in prison.
    By Amanda Arnold
  3. power
    Larry Nassar Was Attacked in Prison, Claims His AttorneyHis attorney is also arguing that the judge who presided over Nassar’s case emboldened inmates to attack him.
    By Amanda Arnold
  4. solitary confinement
    Maybe Don’t Laugh at Whitey Bulger’s Masturbation PunishmentHe was a terrible, murderous man, but nobody deserves to be subjected to the solitary-confinement system we have in the U.S.
    By Jesse Singal
  5. criminology
    The Government’s Early Release of Prisoners Is a Big Social-Science Experiment“There are people who will use anything that happens as evidence that in fact we should be locking people up and throwing away the key, despite all the evidence that that doesn’t produce the results that we want.”
    By Jesse Singal