by Douglas Ankney
"When [our] extra bedding is taken, it does no good to grieve it. Any way they want to punish [us] is backed up by coworkers,” Mindy, a 71-year-old prisoner, told The Appeal.
In the United States, a 50-year-old individual is generally not considered elderly. …
by Chuck Sharman
Los Angeles County officials were set to begin making the first $600 million in payouts in early July 2026, under an historic $4 billion settlement agreement with some 6,800 former detainees subjected to sexual abuse in County juvenile lockups. Payouts were also getting underway under …
by Daniel A. Rosen
My most vivid memory of Aramark’s food service inside jails and prisons came early on in my incarceration: I watched a man at the D.C. Jail dig into the entrée on his evening meal tray and uncover half a dead mouse. Those of us …
by Nichole Manna
For 30 minutes, Brian Tracey lay naked and unable to breathe on the floor of the medical ward at the St. Johns County Detention Center, a low-roofed building south of Jacksonville, Florida. It was Dec. 15, 2023, the day Tracey was supposed to be released …
