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Why Is It So Hard For Incarcerated People To Get Access To The Books They Need And Want?

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Why Is It So Hard For Incarcerated People To Get Access To The Books They Need And Want?

Grassroots organizations are helping get books into prisons, despite the restrictions put in place to stop them.

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Alexandra Jane

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There's Still No Smilin' on Rikers Island

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There's Still No Smilin' on Rikers Island

NYC's infamous jail is in dire straits with a lack of guards and inmates literally running the prison

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1/13/22 10:45AM

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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Gives Support Continuing the At-Home Confinement Provision Done By the Cares Act

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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Gives Support Continuing the At-Home Confinement Provision Done By the Cares Act

The congresswoman noted rehabilitation and the ongoing pandemic for lower-level offenders

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12/30/21 1:00PM

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Jails Are Becoming Even Worse Places To Be

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Jails Are Becoming Even Worse Places To Be

The pandemic is being blamed for staffing shortages and a spike in prisoner violence

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12/29/21 9:00AM

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Believe An Innocent Man

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Believe An Innocent Man

The Root's Keith Reed documents how one wrongful conviction affected a life, a family and an entire community.

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12/23/21 1:00PM

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Free After 43: Kevin Strickland Is Exonerated

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Free After 43: Kevin Strickland Is Exonerated

Black man is only the latest to be cleared after decades in jail under wrongful convictions

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11/24/21 3:00PM

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Arkansas Doctor Under Investigation for Allegedly Giving Ivermectin to Jail Detainees to Treat COVID-19

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Arkansas Doctor Under Investigation for Allegedly Giving Ivermectin to Jail Detainees to Treat COVID-19

Dr. Rob Karas is being investigated for giving inmates the drug, which the FDA says shouldn't be used in the…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr

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Blacks More Likely to Get Federal Life Sentences Than Hispanic, White Offenders

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Blacks More Likely to Get Federal Life Sentences Than Hispanic, White Offenders

A new study found wide racial disparities in federal life sentencing.

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Terrell Jermaine Starr

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The LGBTQ Freedom Fund Is Doing the Work to Bail Out People In U.S. Jails and Immigration Facilities

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The LGBTQ Freedom Fund Is Doing the Work to Bail Out People In U.S. Jails and Immigration Facilities

Mass incarceration is an LGBTQ issue, and we must examine the societal conditions that disproportionately push…

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Jessica Moulite

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