“The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn’t matter if they’re innocent.”
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Everyone Loved a Colorado Prison’s VFW Post—Until a Popular YouTuber Heard About It
“When the VFW opened a chapter inside northeastern Colorado’s Sterling Correctional Facility, the post was celebrated as a victory for prison reform nationwide. So why did it get canceled?”
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The Human Cost of Jeff Landry’s Drive to Resume Executions
“Chris Duncan’s death sentence—built on the testimony of two discredited doctors—illustrates just how faulty the system can be.”
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The Succession Battle For A Prison Empire
“Luxury cars, mansions, a superyacht called Convict, and wined-and-dined sheriffs—a legal war is exposing the big business of extracting profits from prisoners.”
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
“Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.”
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Chrishona Hodges’s Life Sentence
“At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.”
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One Man’s Journey from State Prison to a Revered San Francisco Restaurant
“Even more importantly, Salazar believed in Thomas as a man—a good man.”
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Contraband Marginalia
“When I checked in the books, I was supposed to look for notes or objects hidden inside.”
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What’s the Future of Solitary Confinement?
“Frank DePalma. . . . found comfort in the absence of light.”
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Locked In, Priced Out
“The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.”