Locking up the most medically vulnerable people in our society has created a public health crisis not just inside prison walls, but in the outside community and across the country: The health of individuals, families, and entire communities is clearly associated with incarceration. That’s according to a recent study from a […]
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Video has become the main way victims of law enforcement brutality prove their case, and it’s rare that an incident involving law enforcement gets attention without a recording. Prisons are covered with cameras. But those cameras are controlled by prison staff — they decide where cameras are located and if […]
It would be easy to skim the back cover of “This Life,” the vital, inventive new novel by Quntos KunQuest, glean the fact that the author has, for the past twenty-five years, been incarcerated at Angola prison, in Louisiana, for a carjacking committed when he was nineteen, and presume that […]
Arkee was sentenced to life without parole, and was expected to die in prison, but Governor Pritzker commuted his sentence and since being released a year ago he is continuing to create art, as he did in prison. Arkee’s paintings, ceramics, and papier-mâché creations will be on exhibit and available for […]
Echoes of slavery—and the white supremacy that fueled it—continue to reverberate through the U.S. criminal legal system. The 13th Amendment may have outlawed the enslavement of Black people, but the United States continues to devise new ways to uphold the racist hierarchies that slavery was founded on and to restrict […]
Every year on June 19, Americans have the opportunity to commemorate Juneteenth—the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and liberate all enslaved people. This was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation; a gap between Abraham Lincoln’s pen […]
Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor who pleaded guilty to mishandling government secrets about Russian election interference and who has long sought a pardon, has been transferred from federal prison to the custody of a halfway house to serve the rest of her sentence. She has begun the […]