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 …

by Matt Clarke

Brentwood, Tennessee-based CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), the state’s largest prison, and three other Tennessee prisons for the state Department of Corrections (DOC). But despite the company’s large footprint in Tennessee, its legacy is dismal at best …

by Anthony Accurso

For at least twenty years, the Sheriff’s Office in Rankin County, Mississippi has used coordinated violence against the citizens of the county—both inside and out of the county jail—to terrorize members of the public, particularly anyone suspected of being involved in illegal drugs. Reporting by …

by Douglas Ankney

"I wanted to tell you; your son was beaten to death by an officer. That was a murder.”

Sondra Ray received that message from an unidentified Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) official after receiving a false accounting of the death of her son Steven …