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  • carceral state 30 years of Prison Radio—and new updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case Elías Villoro
  • books Prisons addicted to using drugs to control prisoners Elías Villoro
  • carceral state The Corrections Project documentary series tackles America's carceral state Elías Villoro
  • carceral state No Human Involved: a documentary about Perryville women's prison in Arizona Elías Villoro
  • documentaries The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, a documentary about prison and its life in the American Landscape Elías Villoro
  • kickstarter The hilarious himbo leftist heroes BEEF BROS are back with new graphic novel Thom Dunn
  • gender Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains Cory Doctorow
  • late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
  • authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
  • Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow
  • Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
  • books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
  • death If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently… Cory Doctorow
  • carceral state Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow
  • human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
  • Kids After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments Cory Doctorow
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  • Business After boasting about running his company from prison, Martin Shkreli gets solitary confinement Cory Doctorow
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