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Posted May 5, 2022, 7:49 am
Eva Herscowitz
/The Crime Report
Crediting people for time served — giving criminal defendants “credit” against their sentence for the time they spend detained pretrial — is a deceptively harmful practice that punishes innocent people.... Read more»
Posted Jun 10, 2020, 2:49 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Data suggests that inequities between whites and people of color in Arizona stretch far beyond interactions with police.... Read more»
Posted Feb 24, 2020, 3:38 pm
Miranda Cyr
/Cronkite News
American doctors, members of Congress and immigrant advocates have been pushing U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to vaccinate migrants after several migrant children, including some diagnosed with the flu, have died while in U.S. custody. With CBP so far rejecting those requests, some organizations are working to get migrants the health care they need – on the Mexican side of the border.... Read more»
Posted Aug 19, 2013, 5:43 pm
Christie Thompson
/ProPublica
We’ve rounded up some of the best deep-dive reporting on the mentally ill in U.S. prisons.... Read more»
Posted May 31, 2013, 8:24 am
Raymond Bonner
/ProPublica
States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions.... Read more»
Posted Dec 18, 2012, 11:49 pm
Allison Jackson
/Global Post
Eleven prisoners and six wardens were killed in a shootout during an attempted prison break in the northern state of Durango.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 18, 2012, 9:45 am
Stacey Leasca
/GlobalPost
132 inmates escaped from a prison in Northern Mexico through an underground tunnel Monday, officials said.... Read more»
Posted Aug 2, 2012, 10:35 am
Brandi Grissom
/The Texas Tribune
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week ruled in a Texas case that extreme heat can violate prisoners' rights.... Read more»
Updated Jul 3, 2012, 8:41 am
Brandon Ross
/Cronkite News Service
When prison officials pronounced convicted killer Samuel Lopez dead from a lethal injection at 10:37 a.m. Wednesday, it was the fourth execution in Arizona in the first six months of 2012. At that pace, the state could be on track to match its record of seven executions in a single year.... Read more»
Posted Jun 20, 2012, 12:14 pm
Suevon Lee
/ProPublica
The detention business goes beyond just criminal prisoners; nearly half of all immigrant detainees are now held in privately run detention facilities. Here's a look at the billion-dollar and wide-ranging for-profit detention industry—and the two companies that dominate the market:... Read more»
Posted May 24, 2012, 12:37 pm
Bill Hart
/Morrison Institute
Does the Arizona Department of Corrections actually correct? Is spending nearly $1 billion every year locking up 40,000 people a wise investment? If this is running state government "like a business," it might be time for a shareholder revolt.... Read more»
Posted Mar 17, 2012, 12:46 pm
Holly Heinrich
/Texas Tribune
On Friday nights, in prison cells across parts of Texas, a window opens to the outside world — a radio show for inmates that links inmates to family, friends and the world outside.... Read more»
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Posted Jan 22, 2012, 10:39 am
Girish Gupta
/Global Post
With inmates wielding machine guns, rifles and grenades and guards often unwilling to enter the overcrowded buildings for fear of their own death, jails in Venezuela have become a lawless territory that magnify the violence outside their walls.... Read more»
Posted Nov 8, 2011, 4:18 pm
Global Post
In Mexico authorities say they found 19 prostitutes, two sacks of marijuana, two peacocks and 100 fighting cocks during a surprise inspection in a prison. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 8, 2011, 2:17 pm
Buckmaster Show
We've got a newsmaker interview with Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall. Plus, the Sierra Club's Borderlands program, and writer Janne Irvine.... Read more»
Posted Nov 2, 2011, 6:39 am
Samantha Stainburn
/Global Post
Nearly 1,900 federal prisoners are estimated to be eligible for immediate release as new sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine were applied retroactively Tuesday.... Read more»