Justice
Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare
The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities “huge secret intelligence into the public sender of postal mail.”
One Bill in Texas Legislature Would Ease Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons. Another Makes It Worse.
With the climate crisis at hand, one bill requires air conditioning in prisons, while another would take it away from detained immigrants.
Hurricane Ida Prison Evacuations in Louisiana Left People Without Medication in Bird-Infested Shelter
In a letter, rights groups said incarcerated people were subjected to “dirty and unsafe” conditions during evacuations for Hurricane Ida.
Conservatives Only Care About the Incarcerated When It Comes to the Capitol Rioters
Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene decried jail conditions in D.C. but remain silent about a settlement in Prince George’s County.
The War on ImmigrantsIn Targeting Haitians, Biden May Execute the Largest Mass Expulsion of Asylum-Seekers in Recent History
“This is anti-Black racism in our immigration policy. Period.”