Censoring the News in New York Prisonsnysfocus.com The prison agency has blocked articles on racial bias within its own system, arguing it could "incite disobedience."
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6 Incarcerated New Yorkers Successfully Sue to View the Eclipse—But What About Everyone Else? - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com For now, only the six plaintiffs have permission to watch the eclipse. But the settlement does open the door for requests from others to be considered.
Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalistswww.washingtonpost.com Footage recovered from the drone of an Al Jazeera team killed by the IDF in a targeted Jan. 7 missile strike raises critical questions about the Israeli justification for the attack.
‘My period has become a nightmare’: life in Gaza without sanitary productswww.theguardian.com With limited access to pads, medicine and toilets – not to mention privacy – Palestinian women talk about the extreme difficulty of managing their periods during Israel’s assault
She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.projects.propublica.org Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
The Texas Elections That Will Shape Policing and Punishment This Yearboltsmag.org Deadly jails and disputes over bail and policing loom over the state
New York's Prison Labor System: 'You Got the Slaves, and You Got the Masters' - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com Testifying to state lawmakers, former incarcerated workers for the state’s Corcraft program described a regime of exploitation.
New York's Prison Labor System: 'You Got the Slaves, and You Got the Masters' - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com Testifying to state lawmakers, former incarcerated workers for the state’s Corcraft program described a regime of exploitation.
Native Son and Other Books Blocked in New York Prisonsnysfocus.com As book banning sparks outrage in schools and libraries, the censorship of classics persists in the places where information is most limited.
How California's worst fire season — so far — became a writer's most powerful metaphorwww.latimes.com Manjula Martin had a bad 2020 — between a medical emergency and fires targeting her Sonoma County home. How she turned the pain into a memoir, 'The Last Fire Season.'
Guards Beat and Waterboarded Prisoners in New York, Lawsuits Saywww.nytimes.com A guard placed a cloth over a prisoner’s face and poured water over him, creating a sensation that mimics drowning, according to court papers.
How Rikers Island Became New York’s Largest Mental Institutionwww.nytimes.com A seemingly endless rotation between state forensic hospitals and city jails has meant that some mentally ill detainees stay in the system for years without ever standing trial.
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Natural Born Killerstheswordandthesandwich.substack.com Arson, acid, and the deadly war against abortion rights
As border extremism goes mainstream, vigilante groups take a starring rolewww.latimes.com Arizona Border Recon and other groups that patrol the border for migrants and drug smugglers are gaining followers and prominence, fueling far-right rhetoric and misinformation in national politics.
New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’ No Longer Exists for Thousands of Migrantswww.thecity.nyc The city became somewhat of a haven for the homeless decades ago through court-ordered consent decree. For all intents and purposes that era is over.
Inside the Urgent Campaign to Commute North Carolina’s Entire Death Rowboltsmag.org Death penalty opponents hope to persuade Democratic Governor Roy Cooper to grant mass clemency before he leaves office next year, worried that a Republican takeover could restart executions.
The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.www.nytimes.com Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that destroy one part and resell the rest.
The future-of-journalism crowd stops ignoring local TV newswww.niemanlab.org "The reality is that people of color in the U.S. are more likely to turn to TV news for local information than they are newspapers or digital-first local news."
DeSantis Revives Vicious Attacks on LGBTQ Families as His Campaign Flounderstruthout.org Nearly two-thirds of LGBTQ adults now say they face discrimination in their daily lives as anti-LGBTQ violence spikes.
In Idaho, Extremists Have Created a Culture of Fear Around Pregnancyrewirenewsgroup.com Christian nationalists are taking over the state government, and abortion access is only their first target.
Newsrooms struggle over how to cover crime - Poynterwww.poynter.org A Q&A with Poynter’s Kelly McBride on her Transforming Crime Coverage course and why newsrooms need to change