Immigrant Detainees Claim They Were Forced to Clean Bathrooms to Pay for Their Own Toilet Paper
A protest outside Stewart Detention CenterMike Haskey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia has been called “the black hole of America’s immigration system” for overusing solitary confinement, cutting corners on mental health care, and deporting asylum seekers at extraordinary rates. Now it can add one more alleged human rights…
This Death Row Inmate’s Blood-Filled Tumors Could Make His Execution Especially Cruel and Unusual
Missouri’s death chamberJames A. Finley/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Missouri death row inmate Russell Bucklew is scheduled to die on Tuesday. But Bucklew suffers from a rare medical condition, and his lawyers say that the execution drug that will be used could come with gruesome consequences and constitute cruel and unusual punishment. For…
California Supreme Court Rules State Must Stop Sending So Many Children to Prison for 50 Years
AlexRaths/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it’s unconstitutional to send juvenile offenders to prison for 50 or more years after certain nonhomicide offenses, arguing that such a sentence would be functionally the same as life-without-parole. The 4-3 decision is the latest in…
Behind the Scenes of “Ear Hustle”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a shabby, low-slung bungalow on the grounds of California’s San Quentin State Prison, Adnan Khan sits nervously in front of a microphone. A slender 33-year-old with dark, slicked-back hair and skin the color of cinnamon, he’s clad in typical prison fashion—jeans, powder-blue button-down over…
Trump’s Budget Cuts Are Forcing Teachers and Nurses to Work as Federal Prison Guards
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twice in one week, Ray Coleman, a teacher at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution, reluctantly had to drop his lesson plans and go to work as a guard. “You show up in the morning and they say, ‘Hey, by the way,…
The US Is Set to Execute Three People in a Single Day
The execution chamber in TexasPat Sullivan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After its 1996 high, when 315 people were executed in the United States, the death penalty has been steadily on the decline. Just 23 people were executed last year in 8 states—the second fewest executions in the last 25 years. And while…