The Coronavirus Crisis
GEO 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.
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.
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.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
As 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.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Reopening Missouri Amid the Pandemic Means Executing a Possibly Innocent Man
The coronavirus has stalled executions in other states, but Missouri intends to kill Walter Barton on May 19 — despite unresolved questions about his case.
The Coronavirus Crisis
The Life and Death of Jerry Givens, Virginia’s Executioner-Turned-Abolitionist
After killing 62 people in the death chamber, Givens became an activist against the death penalty. Then Covid-19 took his life.
The Coronavirus Crisis
As a Federal Halfway House Confirms Its First Covid-19 Case, Resident Who Raised Alarms Is Sent Back to Jail
Richard Carrillo believes he was jailed in retaliation for speaking publicly about inadequate protections from the coronavirus.
The Coronavirus Crisis
As Virus Spreads in Federal Prisons, People Inside Describe Chaos, While Families Are Left in the Dark
Despite plans laid out by the Bureau of Prisons, coronavirus remains a daily threat across its facilities.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Executions Are On Hold, but States Are Still Pushing for Death Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
As the virus spreads, the criminal justice system is going out of its way to increase the death toll.
A Cleveland Prosecutor Swept a Wrongful Conviction Under the Rug. Now He’s Running for Judge.
On the campaign trail in Ohio, Richard Bell is still defending the conviction of Angela Garcia based on junk arson science.
Playing With Fire
After 28 Years, the Fire That Sent Claude Garrett to Prison May Get a Second Look
As the flawed arson case awaits possible review by the DA’s office, a veteran fire investigator is still fighting to clear Garrett’s name.
Will Tennessee Kill a Man Who Saved Lives on Death Row?
As the state prepares to execute Nicholas Sutton, prison employees and death row families say he came to the rescue of guards and condemned men alike.