Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth
The request from child welfare authorities seemed harmless enough: Order a newborn drug test. Dr. Sharon Ostfeld-Johns and her hospital ...
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How Trump’s Trans Order Sows Chaos for Federal Prisoners, Staff
Filed 6:00 a.m. EST 02.11.2025 Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one ...
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How Trump’s Executive Order Affects Transgender People in Prison
Among the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office for his second ...
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Some of The Marshall Project’s Best Work for 2024
As the debate on reproductive rights and prison conditions swirled, and U.S. voters prepared to choose a new president, The ...
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New Florida Policy on Trans Care in Prison Like “Conversion Therapy”
Earlier this fall, Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state’s prisons to submit to breast exams. As part of ...
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Effort to Provide Low-cost Healthcare in Behind Bars Stirs Controversy
Inside Story travels to Oklahoma, where we investigate an effort to provide low-cost health care in jails, and explain why ...
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How a Health Care Company’s Practices Endangered Patients in Jails
By Cary Aspinwall, Brianna Bailey and Sachi Mcclendon Data analysis by Geoff HingVideography and photography by Cassandra Giraldo and September ...
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Why States Want to Get People Medicaid Before They Leave Prison
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this ...
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