Tag: Prisons

If you thought only the prison of Azkaban made its name in history then you're absolutely wrong. Come out of the fictional world and I will show you a prison in real-time that was one of its kind and second most popular destination in San Francisco. Before we go touring around the infamo...

The intersection of gender identity and the criminal justice system presents unique challenges, especially concerning the provision of gender-affirming care in prisons. While strides have been made in recognizing the rights and needs of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, there r...

I have been here barely two weeks and already, I have spent almost $500. When I first arrived, I was given a bed roll (a blanket and two sheets), two inmate jumpers, a hotel-sized bar of soap, a toothbrush, a comb, a small tube of toothpaste, a washcloth and a towel. Anything else — drawers (u...

More and more environmentalists are reorienting their work towards environmental justice: we fight to shut down incinerators, petrochemical plants, and other polluting facilities with the knowledge that their impacts disproportionately harm Black communities. But the attack on Black lives extends fa...