Some weekend pieces with a focus on prison stories and commentary

My various feeds have been highlighting that tonight’s episode of 60 Minutes will have a feature story about the federal prison system titled “Agency in Crisis: The Bureau of Prisons is plagued by understaffing, abuse, and disrepair. This Sunday, Cecilia Vega gets rare access inside a women’s federal prison in Alabama.”  I have my DVR set (football gets my live attention), and I also noticed in recent days another group of press pieces and commentary about other prison stories.  Here is a round up:

From Filter, “As Prisons Shutter Classes and Mental Health Care, Drugs Fill the Gap“

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Under Gov. Youngkin, prison reform is working“

From the Seattle Times, “Kimonti Carter was freed from life in prison. Prosecutors want to send him back.”

From the Washington Post, “My dad was ill. Could he survive the prison health-care system?“

From wbur, “Mass. will close its oldest men’s prison, MCI-Concord, by summer“