Report: Incarcerated Michigan women miss meals and medicine because of a lack of wheelchairs and attendants

Disability Rights Michigan (DRM) found that women incarcerated in Michigan who required an attendant to help push their wheelchairs missed, on average, about half of their meals and a majority of doses for prescription medication for seizures, diabetes, and high blood pressure...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/social-justice/2026-02-19/report-incarcerated-michigan-women-miss-meals-and-medicine-because-of-a-lack-of-wheelchairs-and-attendants 

 

DeSantis repeats unfounded claim that Maduro sent freed Venezuelan prisoners to the US - PolitiFact

Immigration experts in the United States and Latin America and groups that track Venezuelan prisons said Venezuela has no known policy or practice of sending prisoners to the U.S., and Venezuelan prisons remain overcrowded...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/jan/07/ron-desantis/maduro-freed-venuzuela-prisoners-us-border/ 

 

Suicides, new tactics and propaganda iPads: details from captured North Koreans expose new foe in Ukraine

Discovery of two injured servicemen sent from Pyongyang and disguised as Russian fighters blows apart myth that Zelenskyy's fight is solely with Moscow…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/suicides-new-tactics-and-propaganda-ipads-details-from-captured-north-koreans-expose-new-foe-in-ukraine

 

Missouri Attorney General Fights to Keep Exonerated Prisoners Behind Bars - The New York Times

In Austin, Texas, Areli Escobar was convicted in the rape and fatal stabbing of a teenager in 2009, based on forensic evidence from a scandal-plagued crime lab that has since been shut down. After a judge recommended a new trial, the Austin district attorney, José Garza, a Democrat, agreed, saying that the state had used "false, misleading and unreliable DNA evidence" to convict Mr. Escobar. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, made up of nine elected judges, all Republicans, declined to overturn the conviction...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/missouri-andrew-bailey-exonerated.html

US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions

Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and 'time wasters'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/new-jersey-prisons-deaths-preventable

Singin’ the coups: Donald Trump releases single with January 6 prisoners

Former president drops charity song on streaming sites recorded with men imprisoned for their role in attack on US Capitol…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/donald-trump-song-charity-single-january-6-prisoners

Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

…14-year-old Antonio Duran, who was sterilized in 1939, after being charged with burglary and painted as a criminal for entering a house and taking several items. The sterilization requests described him as "high tempered, unreliable, an habitual truant and a bully" and said his parents were "of low-grade Mexican mentality"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/19/california-forced-sterilization-prison-survivors-reparations

Kurds say 785 Isis affiliates have escaped camp after Turkish shelling - the guardian

The Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria said 785 foreign individuals affiliated with the Islamic State have escaped the camp where they were being held following heavy Turkish shelling. In an apparent reference to Turkish-backed Syrian insurgents, the Kurds said that mercenaries had attacked the camp where Daesh – as Isis is also known – "elements" attacked camp guards....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/13/kurds-say-785-isis-affiliates-have-escaped-camp-after-turkish-shelling

Pentagon won’t take over Islamic State prisons if U.S.-allied Kurdish forces withdraw, officials say - The Washington Post

The U.S. military does not have the forces or mandate to guard militant prisons in Syria if a Turkish offensive creates a security gap, they said.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-wont-take-over-islamic-state-prisons-if-partner-forces-withdraw-officials-say/2019/10/08/32ba187e-e9d9-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html

These Five ISIS Prisoners Could Win Freedom Amid Chaos of Turkey's Invasion - Newsweek

Now in its ninth year, the civil war in Syria has produced some of the most brutal, confused and multipolar fighting in living memory. In the east, the Syrian Democratic Forces—a Kurdish-led coalition of Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Chechen militias—has destroyed ISIS' "caliphate" with the backing of Western airstrikes, intelligence and special forces troops. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/five-infamous-isis-prisoners-win-freedom-chaos-turkey-syria-invasion-foreign-fighters-1464132

Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt

Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/magazine/digital-jail-surveillance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Happiest Prisoners | Legion Magazine

In the shadow of Mount Baldy, where lodgepole pine and trembling aspen compete for space in Alberta’s spectacular Kananaskis Country, all that remains of a Second World War prisoner of war camp are weedy building foundations, a rundown guard tower and a restored commandant’s cabin. Here and at 25 other locations across Canada, 35,046 German soldiers, sailors, airmen and potential insurgents were incarcerated under a program one later called “the best thing that happened to me....”
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/03/the-happiest-prisoners/

A prison program in Connecticut seeks to find out what happens when prisoners are treated as victims - The Conversation US

In a pilot program, older prisoners sentenced to life mentor younger prisoners who have a chance to lead productive, lawful lives when they get out. The focus is on healing trauma...
https://theconversation.com/a-prison-program-in-connecticut-seeks-to-find-out-what-happens-when-prisoners-are-treated-as-victims-111809

5 important stories that deserve a second look - PBS NewsHour

Why murder rates are rising in Latin America, why we don't know more about the mental health fallout of Huricane Maria in Puerto Rico and other stories we're reading this week. ....
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/5-important-stories-that-deserve-a-second-look-2

Global religious freedom commission cites 28 key nations for ‘ongoing downward trend’ - Religion News Service

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom cited more than two dozen countries as main contributors to an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and called on the Trump administration to prioritize the release of religious prisoners and assist in resettling refugees fleeing persecution.....

https://religionnews.com/2018/04/25/global-religious-freedom-commission-cites-28-key-nations-for-ongoing-downward-trend/

Louisiana Sheriff Horrifyingly Explains Why 'Good' Prisoners Should Stay in Jail | Alternet

Steve Prator thinks nonviolent offenders should be harvested for their free labor.....
https://www.alternet.org/human-rights/louisiana-sheriff-horrifyingly-explains-why-good-prisoners-should-stay-jail

Video Shows U.S. Allies in Syria Torturing Prisoners -- The Daily Beast

We don't know what the soldier with the knife did after the camera was stopped. The video was horrid enough. It shows soldiers in the uniforms of the U.S.-allied People's Protection Units (YPG) kicking and stomping on two young Arabs captured near Raqqa. One of the detainees is lying prone under a metal chair, which a YPG soldier sits on, its leg braces grinding into the captive's back. ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/video-shows-us-allies-in-syria-torturing-prisoners