Dangerous Conditions in Prisons/Jails
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Want Safer NY Prisons? Here’s What Hochul and Legislature Sh…
[ad_1] My neighbor, Jean Frantz, 52, has been in prison since he was 20 years old. Several of his teenage years were spent locked up, too. He sports a baldie with a razor scar that stretches from the top of his head to the back of his neck, a reminder of darker times earlier in…
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MS Prison Killings Have Not Stopped. 5 Things to Know.
[ad_1] This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. An investigation by The Marshall Project – Jackson and local reporting partners found that understaffing and gang violence in Mississippi’s prisons led to dozens of incarcerated people being killed in the last 10 years. Their killers seldom face consequences, and their families…
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At a Federal Prison in Texas, Women Say Dialysis Is Killing …
[ad_1] Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59, Martha Perez also had diabetes and congestive heart failure. She had been in various federal prisons since 2005 on money laundering…
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What Is Pregnancy Like in Prison?
[ad_1] Filed 12:00 p.m. EDT 05.10.2025 A new report sheds light on pregnant people behind bars, but misses their lived experience. A pregnant woman incarcerated at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk, Wyoming, 2015. Ryan Dorgan/Casper Star-Tribune, via Associated Press This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key…
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Why the St. Louis Jail Reflects City’s Deepest Struggles
[ad_1] The St. Louis City Justice Center was supposed to make things better. Forty-five people in custody have died since the high-security facility opened in 2002 through February of this year, including 29 who were pronounced dead after being transported to area hospitals, according to public records. A federal lawsuit against the city over jail…
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Federal Bureau of Prisons Director: What to Know About Willi…
[ad_1] William “Billy” Marshall, the relatively unknown head of the West Virginia corrections department, has been selected to lead the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons, a Trump administration choice that took advocates for federal prison staff and incarcerated people aback Friday. President Trump made the announcement Thursday night on his Truth Social platform. “Billy is…
