first step act Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains Cory Doctorow
juking the stats NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
Avinoam Sapir Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
starvation The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow
cca After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
Global Tel Link 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
occams razor If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently… Cory Doctorow
edelman pr Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow
immigration detention Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
incarcerated kids After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments Cory Doctorow
democratic socialists AOC has backed a progressive, anti-establishment public defender for DA of Queens Cory Doctorow
purity tests Beto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons Cory Doctorow
ReliAlert XC3 Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
shkrelifreude After boasting about running his company from prison, Martin Shkreli gets solitary confinement Cory Doctorow
investigator pro American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow
democracy in chains A data-driven look at the devastating efficacy of a far-right judge-education program Cory Doctorow
trump university Unpacking the US's "low unemployment": stagnant wages, bad jobs, high incarceration, discouraged workers back in school Cory Doctorow
canada pension plan Canada Pension Plan is long on US private prisons and immigrant detention centers Cory Doctorow
debtors prisons Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
