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What It’s Like Enduring a Heat Wave in a Missouri Prison

Lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling.

St. Louis • 09.08.2025

‘Zombie Prisons’: How ICE Detention Is Raising Troubling Facilities From the Dead

ICE needs more detention space, and it’s faster to open old facilities than to build new ones.

Analysis • 08.29.2025

The Next Alligator Alcatraz Could Be in Your State

Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise problematic questions, attorneys say.

Feature • 08.22.2025

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