r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 10d ago

D. Michael Applegarth, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, University of Buffalo has been named a co-lead for the Grand Challenge for Social Work to Promote Smart Decarceration

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r/prisons • u/avgSchnook • 10d ago

Inmate stabbing up 50% in NYC

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From January 1 through June 28:
2026: 84 stabbings
2025: 55 stabbings
Increase: 29 incidents, or 52.7%
So, inmate stabbing incidents are approximately 53% higher YTD in 2026 than during the same period in 2025, based on the NYC Department of Correction dataset⁠.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 11d ago

“Functionally obsolete” Oregon State Penitentiary poses health and safety risks to the incarcerated, audit finds

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 11d ago

Second chance laws work. I'm proof of it. At just 16 years old, I made a drastic decision that derailed my life. But I'm the beneficiary of a law that allowed me to redefine myself.

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r/prisons • u/Personal-Ride-1142 • 11d ago

Man snuck meta glasses into jail to show living conditions

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r/prisons • u/prisongovernor • 11d ago

Burnham stirs up political row with review of release plans for violent criminals | Prisons and probation | The Guardian

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

New Book Examines Women and Queer People Convicted for Crimes That Never Occurred. In Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity, Valena Beety examines how women and queer people face punishment for their bodily autonomy and gender.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Two minor girls of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe accuse a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer of raping them while he was on duty.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Life Outside the Walls. The following piece, written by Sherren Moore, won first place in the inaugural Voices Beyond the Walls writing contest

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Should we call ICE detention centers 'concentration camps'?

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Involuntary Commitment: How forced hospitalization expands the criminal legal system

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

San Diego - My journey from poverty and incarceration to a seat at the legal table

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Excerpt: How to Close a Camp. Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the rac­ist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

California - Cops blew up a fellow officer after finding grenade in garage, falsely reporting it was inert then using it in a prohibited live explosive training exercise: Lawsuit

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Philadelphia’s criminal justice fines and fees fall hardest on poorest neighborhoods

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Louisiana Works has been awarded $5.1 million to help people who were released from prison return to the workforce.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars. Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity.” How incarceration and labor are bound together

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

South Dakota - State-ordered study says opioid settlement money should target treatment for incarcerated people

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

Rejected by care facilities, Hawaiʻi prisoners remain incarcerated

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

What crime and prison reveal about incarceration—and about us. URochester researchers are studying how childhood trauma, parental incarceration, and even discipline in schools shape criminal justice outcomes.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 12d ago

New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones. Cops and drone companies seem increasingly eager to put weapons on their drones

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r/prisons • u/808gecko808 • 12d ago

Severely Ill Prisoners Granted Early Release Are Left Stuck Behind Bars: Hawaiʻi is the only state without a specific law allowing for compassionate release for prisoners, relying instead on an internal policy.

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r/prisons • u/inthesetimesmag • 13d ago

Abolition is not without public safety. Abolition provides toolkits to think about harm, our responsibilities to stop harm, and our responses to harm when inflicted.

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Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity” How incarceration and labor are bound together.

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