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Multiple states are building new women’s prisons, but can they be stopped?

Sierra Dickey
color photograph of a Black woman holding a microphone and wearing a white T-shirt that reads "no new women's prisons"

PEN America doesn’t prioritize incarcerated writers, former staffers say

Natalye Childress
color digital collage of a line drawing of a person wrapped in chains. lines of red barbed wire cross the top third of the co

San Quentin delays and denies hepatitis C care to affected incarcerated people

Joey Scott Timothy Peoples
color photograph of a box of hypodermic needles

Prison labor in Texas is modern-day slavery

Xandan Gulley
digital collage on a teal background of a Black person in an orange jumpsuit tilling a field with a hoe

New York prisons are illegally subjecting disabled people to solitary confinement

Elly Belle
color photograph of a Black man at an outdoor protest. he holds a sign that reads "no more solitary confinement end torture"

Illinois needs public defender reform. Is a new state bill the right step?

Noah Berlatsky
color photograph of a stressed lawyer sitting at a desk with several piles of paperwork beside her

Never eat the candy on your pillow: What hurts more?

Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.
color digital collage on a teal background of a minimalist drawing of Black man with a fade. squiggly darker teal lines stret

Who gets to benefit from changes in the law?

Kendall Turner
color photograph of a Black man in an orange jumpsuit sitting behind metal bars

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Breaking the cycle

Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.
digital collage on a teal background of a piece of paper with circular scribbles on it

Michigan prison officials withhold evidence of retaliation against an incarcerated writer

Tamar Sarai
color photograph of a Black person's hands intertwined while wearing handcuffs

Collectives in the South help lead the charge to #FreeBlackMamas for Mother’s Day

Tamar Sarai
color stock photo of a Black mother holding her infant son

Philadelphia city plan may force houseless people to choose jail or treatment

Sterling Johnson
color photograph of an outdoor protest for funding housing and safe injection sites