gender Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
death If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently… Cory Doctorow
carceral state Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow
human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
Kids After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments Cory Doctorow
corporatism Beto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons Cory Doctorow
Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
Business After boasting about running his company from prison, Martin Shkreli gets solitary confinement Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Florida inmates sue prisons for digitally confiscating the music they were sold Cory Doctorow
surveillance American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow
law A data-driven look at the devastating efficacy of a far-right judge-education program Cory Doctorow
class war Unpacking the US's "low unemployment": stagnant wages, bad jobs, high incarceration, discouraged workers back in school Cory Doctorow
Business Canada Pension Plan is long on US private prisons and immigrant detention centers Cory Doctorow
california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
