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Feature October 11, 2017
“Cooking Them to Death”: The Lethal Toll of Hot Prisons
As the climate changes, inmates without air-conditioning have no escape from extreme heat.
WITH VIDEO BY THE MARSHALL PROJECT, THE WEATHER CHANNEL AND DIVIDED FILMS
Graphics September 21, 2017
Puerto Rico Puts Its Prisons Near Flood Zones
After Hurricane Maria, thousands of families await news.
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Life Inside March 4, 2016
Inside the ‘Shithouse,’ the Prison Unit Where Troubled Inmates Throw Feces at Guards
What it’s like to slowly lose your mind in the grossest corner of the prison-industrial complex.
By Jeremy Busby
News February 16, 2016
Watch a Video From “Mariposa and the Saint,” a New Play About Solitary Confinement
The work is based on years of letters between Julia Steele Allen and Sara Fonseca.
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Life Inside February 12, 2016
What It’s Like to Be a Hacker in Prison
Finding refuge in old media.
By Stephen Watt
News January 27, 2016
San Quentin Puts on a Happy Face
A field trip to California’s oldest prison.
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Feature January 7, 2016
How to Get Out of Solitary — One Step at a Time
New programs are easing inmates out of years of solitary confinement with surprising outcomes for both prisoners and corrections officers.
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Commentary October 5, 2015
Let the Press In
Society won’t fix a prison system it can’t see.
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Times Union photo by James Goolsby-Mon. April 5, 1999-The Exterior of Main Gate at The Bare Hill Correctional Facility, In Malone N.Y. Where Jo El Scott, A young Albany heavy weight fighter is an inmate.
News August 23, 2015
A New York Prison-Yard Search and 10 Cases of Frostbite
Barehanded, inmates are ordered to grip a metal fence in 10-degree weather.
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The Lowdown August 13, 2015
‘For $12 of Commissary, He Got 10 Years Off His Sentence.’
What it takes to be a jailhouse lawyer.
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