Rounding up some prison press pieces as the week winds down
The highest-profile corrections stories of this week were surely the four executions in four US states. But, as is always the case in our big nation with lots of prisons and jails, there were also lots of lower-profile incarceration stories from this week worth noting. Here is an abridged list of pieces catching my eye:
From Fortune, “Binance founder ‘CZ’ leaves prison on Friday—along with his $60 billion fortune“
From The Guardian, “Activists ‘fight against censorship’ in the largest US book bans: prisons“
From The Marshall Project, “The Future of Prisons?: Inspired by Germany, South Carolina let prisoners design their own units, write house rules and settle their own disputes. Then came politics.”
From the Minnesota Star Tribune, “Many people in jail have an opioid addiction, but less than half of jails offer medication, study shows“
From the Mississippi Free Press, “Mississippi Town Ran ‘Kinds of Debtors’ Prisons Charles Dickens Described,’ Justice Department Alleges“
From MIT News, “Study evaluates impacts of summer heat in U.S. prison environments“
From NPR, “DOJ watchdog: federal prison not doing enough to prevent inmate suicides“
From the Washington Post, “D.C. Jail inmates take up soccer in new program with D.C. United“
From Wisconsin Public Radio, “Wisconsin DOC: Nonprofit can no longer send used books to prisoners“