Tag: US prisons
We studied jail conditions and jail deaths − here’s what we found
Jessica L. Adler, Florida International University
The family of Samuel Lawrence, one of 10 people to die in Georgia’s...
Why are there prisons? An expert explains the history of using...
Joshua Long, UMass Lowell
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
We talked to 100 people about their experiences in solitary confinement...
Angela Hattery, University of Delaware and Earl Smith, University of Delaware
The United States leads the world in its...
Conditions in prisons during heat waves pose deadly threats to incarcerated...
J. Carlee Purdum, Texas A&M University
Extreme heat is taking an increasing toll across the U.S. in summertime. People...
Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: 7 questions...
Alexis Karteron, Rutgers University - Newark
President Joe Biden made good on his promise to nominate the first Black...
On 50th anniversary of Attica uprising, 4 essential reads on prisoners’...
Matt Williams, The Conversation
On Sept. 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 incarcerated men at Attica Correctional Facility in New York...
Tracking anniversaries of Black deaths isn’t memorializing victims – it’s objectifying...
Lee M. Pierce, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
National Good Samaritan Day fell on March 13...
US prisons hold more than 550,000 people with intellectual disabilities –...
Jennifer Sarrett, Emory University
Prison life in the U.S. is tough. But when you have an intellectual, developmental or...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
