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peanut butter Alabama inmates use peanut butter trick to escape prison David Pescovitz
active countermeasures UK prison deploys active anti-drone countermeasures to fight contraband smuggling Cory Doctorow
writing utensils Prison pen is bendy, "non-lethal" David Pescovitz
prison-industrial complex DoJ says it will end private federal prisons Cory Doctorow
hipaa Chelsea Manning cut off from contact with lawyers after medical emergency Xeni Jardin
abuse Texas judge orders prison to provide inmates with safe drinking water Rob Beschizza
commutation President Obama issues 61 sentence commutations, only 10,000 more to go Xeni Jardin
executive power Barack Obama ends solitary confinement for juveniles in federal custody Cory Doctorow
prisons What does the prisoner phone-recording leak mean for prisoners and their families? Cory Doctorow
securedrop Hack of 70M prisoner phone calls is biggest attorney-client privilege breach in US history Xeni Jardin
prisons Five private prison myths that Muckrock will bust with its crowdfunded Freedom of Information Act blitz Cory Doctorow
mass incarceration Give me blood, cash, or jail time, Alabama judge orders defendants Xeni Jardin
mentally ill Mentally ill man jailed over $5 worth of snacks dies in cell after waiting months for mental health care Xeni Jardin
prisoners rights Chelsea Manning threatened with 'indefinite solitary confinement' for expired toothpaste and asking for a lawyer Trevor Timm
guard labor Privatized, for-profit immigration detention centers force detainees to work for $1-3/day Cory Doctorow
jail How did an Ohio inmate get prison administrators' usernames and passwords? Xeni Jardin