Liliana Segura
Liliana Segura is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the U.S. criminal justice system, with a longtime focus on harsh sentencing, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. She was previously an associate editor at the Nation Magazine, where she edited a number of award-winning stories and earned a 2014 Media for a Just Society Award for her writing on prison profiteering. While at The Intercept, Segura has received the Texas Gavel Award in 2016 and the 2017 Innocence Network Journalism Award for her investigations into convictions in Arizona and Ohio. In 2019 she was honored in the Abolitionist category of the Frederick Douglass 200, a recognition given by the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
Segura has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN International, Democracy Now!, and numerous other outlets. Her speaking engagements have included public interviews with authors such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Colorlines, and has been reprinted in outlets ranging from prison magazines to the anthologies “The Best American Legal Writing” and “Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You.” She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Coronavirus CrisisHow the Coronavirus Became a Death Sentence at a GEO Group Halfway House
Two men have died from Covid-19 at the GEO Group’s Leidel Center in Houston. A third died just after coming home.
The Movement for Black Lives Confronts the Confederate Legacy in Rural Tennessee
Inspired by the national Black Lives Matter movement, rural marches have also clearly been fueled by longstanding injustices in organizers’ own backyard.
The Coronavirus CrisisGEO Group’s Blundering Response to the Pandemic Helped Spread Coronavirus in Halfway Houses
As GEO Group boasted to investors about its handling of the coronavirus, the company was scrambling to contain outbreaks.
The Coronavirus CrisisAs Coronavirus Spreads in Federal Prisons, Cases in Halfway Houses Are Being Undercounted
People at residential reentry centers say the Bureau of Prisons is compounding the risks of the virus through mismanagement, intransigence, and retaliation.