In Landmark Court Ruling, Nevada Can’t Use a Controversial Drug to Execute an Inmate
Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A judge has made it nearly impossible for the state of Nevada to execute a death row inmate. Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez banned prison officials from using its supply of midazolam, a controversial sedative responsible for several botched executions in the…
Thousands of Prisoners Are Being Forced to Stay During Hurricane Florence
A Texas State prison unit remained submerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey last year.Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than one million residents have been ordered to evacuate regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia in the face of Hurricane Florence, the Category 4 storm expected to…
Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bruce Jackson got into photography as a means to an end. Working as an ethnographer studying African American work songs in Texas prisons, Jackson started taking photos for reference. While doing this work in the late ’60s, he met Terrell Don Hutto, a prison teacher…
Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, I spent four months working undercover as a guard at a medium-security Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) with the aim of reporting on the conditions inside a private prison for Mother Jones. Shortly after I began, I was shown…
Too Young to Vote—But Too Riled Up to Stay Quiet
Students from the Arizona March for our Lives group at a rally in March. Courtesy of Jordan Harb High schoolers across the country are leading voter registration efforts—even though some are too young to head to the polls themselves. Some of these new organizers, like 17-year-old Jordan Harb of Arizona, were energized to call for tighter gun…
No One Knows How Big the Prison Strike Is, But Organizers Are Already Calling It a Success
LightFieldStudios/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For weeks, the outside organizers of the nationwide prison strike that kicked off last Tuesday had been spreading the word that inmates in at least 17 states had pledged to protest prison conditions over 19 days. The plan was for thousands of prisoners to…