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He Almost Died From A Burst Appendix. A For-Profit Jail Medical Provider Dismissed It As Heartburn.

A new lawsuit in York County, Pennsylvania, highlights a pattern of allegations of medical neglect by for-profit correctional healthcare company PrimeCare.
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ICE Wants to Buy Warehouses for Mass Detention. Communities Are Fighting Back.

“Local communities are making it clear from coast to coast,” said Detention Watch Network’s Stacy Suh, “they don’t want ...
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Unsatisfied With Record Profits, Private Prison Investors Want ICE to Escalate

CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not ...
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The Struggle Against A Stadium’s Construction Became A Battle for the Soul Of Los Angeles

This commentary is part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis. In Los Angeles, residents of historically Black and Latinx neighborhoods are being pushed out of their homes as the ...
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After Exposing Prison Horrors, Incarcerated Whistleblowers Are Moved to Solitary

This article was co-published with Solitary Watch and Truthout. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that ...
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Lockdowns, Violence, and “Barbaric Conditions” in a Federal Jail Known for its Famous Detainees

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for the celebrities detained there, but hundreds of other people at the jail face inhumane conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center in ...
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Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...
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Cops Used the Shoplifting Panic to Buy Tons of New Equipment

Retail theft has dominated headlines, earnings calls, and political rhetoric for the last few years. Television news shows loop seemingly endless clips of people shoplifting. CEO’s claimed that retail ...
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New York’s Second Look Act Could Save People Incarcerated When They Were Young—Like Me

On a recent winter evening, my neighbor stopped in front of my gate and slid me a tan folder. “Here you go,” he said before quickly taking off. When I opened the package, I was surprised to see five ...
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LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding.

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the ...
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‘Fund the Police’ Backfired—and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever

Democrats spent the last four years running away from police reform. “Funding the police” didn’t just help them lose the presidency—it handed a dangerous man an even stronger police and surveillance ...
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In U.S. Courts, Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias Can Be a Death Sentence

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...