Just Detention International was disturbed by the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) abrupt announcement, on Monday, April 15, that it plans to close FCI Dublin, a federal women’s prison in California ...
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Rape is Not Part of the Penalty
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A prisoner at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, a state prison once deemed among the worst for sexual misconduct in the nation, has pledged to go on another hunger strike if the Mississippi...
Like many Americans, Santia Nance plans to celebrate Christmas with her loved ones. Doing so will be more challenging for Nance: Her fiancé is incarcerated in a Virginia prison and she said it�...
Lawmakers in a handful of states have begun taking aim at transgender people in prison with extreme measures that seek to infringe on the rights of an especially vulnerable segment of the populat...
Terry Grassaree was dogged for years by questions about how he did his job as a law enforcement officer in Macon, Miss., a tiny, rural town near the state’s eastern border. There were allegatio...
CHAPTER 1 The Predator and the Prey In June of 2019, Danielle Sivels was living in Texas when she was arrested on an out-of-state warrant for probation violations stemming from a 2015 hit-and-run...
I read with interest Bill Keller’s piece on the Americanisation of UK prisons. However, I was surprised there was no mention of sexual violence in prison, often seen as synonymous with the US ...
Records obtained by the Guardian show women in California prisons routinely report abuse, but few officers face consequences, even when there is substantial evidence Women incarcerated in Califor...
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 4, 2023 —Los Angeles and Washington D.C., Sept 4, 2023 — Just Detention International celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Prison Rape Eliminatio...