Tag: Dangerous Conditions in Prisons/Jails

Marshall Project contributing writer Tom Robbins died this week at the age of 76. Tom was a mentor and role ...

Jails are notorious for inhumane conditions. Detainees often complain of violence, inedible food, limited programming and subpar healthcare. Lack of ...

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — roughly half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional ...

Filed 12:00 p.m. EDT 05.10.2025 A new report sheds light on pregnant people behind bars, but misses their lived experience. ...

Filed 12:00 p.m. EDT 04.26.2025 Opposition to an immigration detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas, illustrates a tension playing out across ...

The St. Louis City Justice Center was supposed to make things better. Forty-five people in custody have died since the ...

William “Billy” Marshall, the relatively unknown head of the West Virginia corrections department, has been selected to lead the troubled ...

In the early morning hours of Oct. 18, 2021, Michael Richardson was beaten, stomped on and dragged to his death ...

Update 01:20 p.m. 03.05.2025 This is the latest version of this reporting toolkit. See an earlier version in the Wayback ...

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