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Prisons
Trans people across the country are facing an assault on their right to exist — but being transgender in prison is uniquely difficult.
An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd says his family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials.
He claims that prison officers unlawfully accessed his records and that one provided information to Tasha K for her gossip show.
Ahead of his scheduled execution, Brent Brewer speaks about his remorse, personal growth and participation in a faith-based program on Texas death row.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it.
Inmates in the Washington County, Arkansas, jail filed suit in 2021, alleging they'd been given ivermectin under false pretenses.
Billy Chemirmir, 50, was serving life without parole after being convicted of murdering two women, and Texas authorities had accused him of killing more than a dozen others.
Murderer Danelo Cavalcante is back in custody after a two-week manhunt.
A 24-year-old man died at an Atlanta hospital after being found unresponsive at a jail that is already being investigated by federal authorities for potential civil rights violations.
Danelo Cavalcante, who has been on the run since Thursday, escaped the Chester County Prison the same way that another inmate did earlier this year.
