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Pregnant Women in Prison Aren't Getting Care, and No One Is Keeping Track

U.S. criminal justice policies have led to a 585 percent increase in the incarcerated women’s population since 1980 and have resulted in the highest female incarceration rate in the world.

Reason

Cash-strapped jails are taking in immigrants to help Trump’s agenda and fill their coffers

The administration turns to local law enforcement to expand the footprint of his mass deportation operation

The Independent UK

He wanted his father’s killer to be executed. Until his wish was granted

Does the death penalty – ‘a life for a life’ – really help victims’ families achieve closure? A new documentary finds out

The Guardian - US

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Trans inmate sues Trump over executive order forcing her into men’s prison and denying appropriate health care

Incarcerated trans woman takes aim at president’s order rolling back protections for LGBT+ Americans

The Independent UK

5 Years After Giving Birth, a Mississippi Mother Was Arrested for a Felony Based on a Postnatal Drug Test

Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.

Reason

Hospitals Are Giving Pregnant Women Drugs, Then Reporting Them to CPS When They Test Positive

One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug.

Reason

Majority of Alabama Inmates Want Trump to Win Presidential Election, Poll Says

A majority of Alabama inmates would cast their vote for Donald Trump if given the chance, with support for the former president outpacing his rivals even from behind prison walls, according to a new survey by The Marshall Project.

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Iowa Supreme Court is Considering if the State Can Charge Acquitted Defendants for Court-Appointed Attorneys

Iowa has one of the most aggressive court systems in the country when it comes to billing defendants for court-appointed attorneys, even in cases where they're acquitted or charges are dropped.

Reason

The Government Is Taking Babies Away Because Their Moms Ate Poppy Seeds

Unreliable drug tests are sparking unnecessary child welfare investigations.

Reason

This company promised to improve health care in jails. Dozens of its patients have died.

Health care contractor Turn Key serves nearly 70 counties across Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Colorado, Kansas and Montana.

The Texas Tribune

A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats

He was tasked with ending abuse at a federal penitentiary in Illinois but says his own staff and Bureau of Prisons officials blocked his efforts.

WEKU

New accounts of abuse at federal prison prompt renewed calls for investigation

More than 120 prisoners held at a special unit in Thomson Penitentiary reported mistreatment, a Washington Lawyers' Committee report says.

WEKU

Gun possession arrests doubled in Chicago, but shootings remained high — and unsolved

The Marshall Project’s year-long investigation found that arrests for gun possession — the vast majority involving young Black men — have grown to their highest level in decades. But violent crimes involving guns continued to jump, with few arrests in those cases.

Chicago Sun-Times

America’s book bans have already come for prisons

From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little oversight, Alex Woodward reports

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The Problems With Just Getting Guns Out of People's Hands as a Solution to Gun Violence

New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence

Newslaundry

Unbelievable on Netflix: For journalists and police, lessons in how to report and investigate rape

In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting was awarded to An Unbelievable Story of a Rape by T Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project “for a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement’s enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend…

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