05 Apr Another Update: USP Tucson Avoids Oversight Month Later
It's been a month since we published our original story on the gun incident at USP Tucson. Accountability still seems impossible.
It's been a month since we published our original story on the gun incident at USP Tucson. Accountability still seems impossible.
The BOP response to the gun incident at USP Tucson continues to baffle the loved ones of the campers who could have died that day.
A husband tried to murder his wife in a visiting room at the BOP's minimum-security camp at USP Tucson. The BOP did virtually nothing.
Discussions about prison conditions are in the media now more than ever. But, for the most part, they haven't led to any action. Why?
Violence has become somewhat ordinary in Alabama prisons. But lawmakers don't want to make changes for fear of seeming "soft on crime."
Incarcerated people can't legally consent to sex with prison guards, but the media refuses to describe it in any other way.
Scientists have made note of how COVID-19 in prisons affects local communities and exacerbates the pandemic for all Americans. Now, with the Delta variant causing renewed alarm, it is important to understand how infection inside prisons could fuel outbreaks around the country.
The mortality rates in American prisons and jails is on the rise, and Oklahoma's recent numbers show how bad the problem is.
Courts have repeatedly said that extreme temperatures in prisons are unlawful, but with no oversight most states have little accountability.