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Incarceration

  1. politics
    The Adams Administration Has a New Policy for Jail Deaths: Cover-upThe Department of Correction will no longer alert the media of inmate deaths. The move comes after a report raised questions about deadly incidents.
    By Nia Prater
  2. book review
    A Memoir of Prison Time, Delivered With a Note of ApologyIn Corrections in Ink, Keri Blakinger writes about the years of addiction and incarceration she lived through before becoming a reporter.
    By John J. Lennon
  3. book review
    Love Behind Bars Is Possible. It’s Just Absurdly Hard.In Love Lockdown, journalist Elizabeth Greenwood follows couples who are trying to make it work when at least one partner is in prison.
    By John J. Lennon
  4. politics
    A 12th Person Has Died in NYC Jails This YearThree detainees have died in two weeks, and all but one in 2021 were being held on Rikers Island.
    By Nia Prater
  5. coronavirus
    Judge Rules That New York Must Vaccinate Prisoners ImmediatelyA state supreme court judge described the decision to leave inmates out of the public-health campaign as an “abuse of discretion.”
    By Matt Stieb
  6. how i get it done
    The Prison Abolitionist Redefining What It Means to WinWhen not visiting clients in jail or advocating for them in court, Rhiannon Hamam also co-hosts a podcast about “how much the Supreme Court sucks.”
    By Claire Lampen
  7. all in the family
    ‘I Told Her I’ll Wear Two Masks’Three mothers discuss being unable to visit their incarcerated loved ones.
    As told to Angelina Chapin
  8. coronavirus
    A Mother in Federal Prison Has Died of the CoronavirusAndrea Circle Bear is the first woman in federal custody to die from COVID. Advocates say she could have been saved.
    By Angelina Chapin
  9. ‘influencers’
    The Women of ‘Prison YouTube’These channels help formerly incarcerated women gain support systems that may be too uncomfortable or difficult to forge in the real world.
    By Jessica Bloom
  10. crime
    A Trans Woman Was Found Dead in Her Rikers Cell. Her Family Wants Answers.Layleen Polanco died in solitary confinement. She was being held on $500 bond.
    By Amanda Arnold
  11. how i get it done day
    Meet an Activist Who Has Devoted Her Life to Helping Incarcerated Women“When you give a woman a chance, you’re changing the world.”
    By Brock Colyar
  12. lawsuits
    NYPD Accused of Forcing Woman to Give Birth While Chained to Bed“Shortly after she gave birth, NYPD officers again shackled her… Ms. Doe struggled to feed her new baby with one arm.”
    By Amanda Arnold
  13. On Last Day in Office, Obama Commutes the Sentences of 330 Drug OffendersThe president’s total number of commutations granted is now 1,715 — more than any other president in American history.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. The Justice Department Will End Its Use of Private PrisonsAfter finding such prisons provide inferior service to state-run facilities, DOJ no longer thinks incarceration should be a for-profit enterprise.
    By Eric Levitz