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…
Women in Arizona State Prison Would Have to Work 27 Hours Just to Get a Box of Tampons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An Arizona bill that would provide basic dignity for female prisoners moved forward in the state legislature this week. The issue at hand is that incarcerated women are currently only provided 12 free pads per month and are only allowed to possess 24 pads at a time.…
The Guy Behind the Bogus Immigration Report Has A Long History of Terrible And Misleading Research
John Lott speaks to the crowd during a gun rights rally at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford in 2013.Jared Ramsdell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Controversial economist John R. Lott Jr. has made questionable claims about gun rights, police shootings, and abortion. But his new pet issue seems to be…
Here’s What Happens When Trump Policy Comes to Trump Country
Organizers Marilyn Torres and Marbella Chavez celebrate after a private prison company withdrew its proposal for an immigration detention center in Elkhart County.Mother Jones Illustration/Michael Caterina/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Elkhart County, Indiana, is proud of its recreational vehicles. The county—90 percent white, 41 percent factory workers, and located…
When This Death Row Inmate Decided He Wanted to Die, It Created A Firestorm No One Was Prepared For
Scott Dozier in Ely State Prison.Edgar Barens/The Marshall Project Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the day he had been scheduled to die, Scott Dozier arrived at the visiting room inside Ely State Prison looking edgy and exhausted. He’d been thwarted. For more than a year, he had worked to…