Razor wire lines the recreation yard at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Essex town planning commission ...

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Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

In California’s Central Valley sits a 640-acre prison, which is home to more than 2,000 women, nonbinary, and transgender people. It’s the largest women’s prison in the state — and the world. But that ...

“My God, you also handed my son freedom,” said Patricia Cortes when she left El Buen Pastor prison on September 17, 2024. She had hoped to be able to guarantee her son’s food and health upon leaving ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...