Jails and Detention Centers

John Oliver’s take on U.S. Prisons

My Long Hair Isn’t a Vanity Project. It’s My Last Connection to Life Outside March 20, 2026
In this foreign landscape of state-issued orange, my hair feels like all I have left of my identity.
ICE Has Abruptly Deported Thousands of Kids. Their Families Say It Traumatized Them. March 18, 2026
Families left behind keepsakes, medicine, pets, cars and homes, sometimes leaving the U.S. with little more than the clothes on their backs.
How Hospitals Helped Erode Reproductive Rights March 14, 2026
Criminal prosecutions sparked by hospital drug testing helped advance the legal concept that the fetus had interests the state could protect.

Welcome to our first Creator-in-Residence, Alpha Jalloh!
Added Welcome to our first Creator-in-Residence, Alpha Jalloh! to the Prison Policy Blog. Alpha will work with the Prison Policy Initiative team to create social videos that expose the harms of mass incarceration in America.
New Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie report shows effects of Trump's immigrant detention campaign on incarceration numbers
Added New Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie report shows effects of Trump's immigrant detention campaign on incarceration numbers to the Prison Policy Blog. The increase in the number of people behind bars since last year's report is almost entirely attributable to immigration enforcement.
Mental health, chronic and infectious conditions among pregnant persons in US state prisons and local jails 2016-2017
The Prison Policy Initiative Research Library was updated with a link to Mental health, chronic and infectious conditions among pregnant persons in US state prisons and local jails 2016-2017 by Caitlin A. Hendricks et al

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