Trans People Behind Bars Face Great Risks. Prison Officials Are Making It Worse.

Even state-level legal protections for trans people have not always extended to those behind bars.

Federal prosecutors charged 15 people with conspiracy, painting their political speech, protest activity, and alleged antifa ties as evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.

Human rights experts condemn the increasing use of weapons like tear gas, pepper balls, and rubber bullets.

At Louisiana’s Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them.

Over 200,000 incarcerated people face deadly summer heat in California and Texas.

Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

Experts say “investigative hypnosis” creates an unacceptably high risk of false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Flores’s case. Now his life is in the Supreme Court’s hands.

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry, and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Six prison systems have implemented free phone calls. A new report examines the impact of free communications.

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask the governor for clemency.

Private prison executive suggests federal government may buy detention facilities to circumvent state laws.

Maria Montalvo was convicted of murder in 1996 after her children’s deaths in a fire, based on testimony from arson experts. In a petition for a new trial, her attorneys argue that the conviction rests on ‘outdated beliefs and junk science.’

Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump’s mass deportation machine.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.

In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical neglect after officials ignored his order to schedule an appointment with a specialist for a woman at high risk of breast cancer.

A new facility celebrated by Gov. Gavin Newsom will disrupt prisoner-led programming and normalize our captivity.

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

Last week, Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled that automatic sentences of life without parole for people charged under the felony murder doctrine constitute “cruel punishments” under the state constitution.

ICE raids and cutbacks to personal care services are leaving seniors and disabled adults scrambling for in-home aid.

From voting rights to wages to housing assistance, these officials advocate for systemic change to reduce incarceration.

A lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Pennsylvania says that the state’s prison system restricts access to insulin pumps and glucose monitors, putting people with Type 1 diabetes at risk of death or serious injuries.

The infringement of Muslims’ religious rights has intensified in ICE jails under Trump 2.0, civil rights advocates say.

Incarcerated people in West Virginia filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the largest prison food provider in the country fails to offer adequate meals in the cafeteria while charging high prices for fresh produce and snacks in the commissary.

California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends creating new pathways for senior citizens to seek release.

After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.

A new lawsuit in York County, Pennsylvania, highlights a pattern of allegations of medical neglect by for-profit correctional healthcare company PrimeCare.

People across the political spectrum are realizing these federal detention warehouses will harm their communities.

The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.

Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

Investors on CoreCivic and GEO Group’s quarterly earnings calls expressed frustration that ICE’s record immigration detention numbers aren’t high enough.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Families are asking questions about their loved ones’ deaths in custody. The state isn’t answering them.

Immigrant rights activists and elected officials are calling to shut down Camp East Montana.

Subjects of The Alabama Solution have led protests for years, using cell phones to expose brutality and forced labor.

Everett Palmer, Jr.’s 2018 death in a York County restraint chair prompted a $1.5 million legal settlement, but the jail used restraint chairs more than 1,000 times in the years after his death.

A 2021 incident in a Missouri prison illustrates the barriers Muslims face practicing their religion behind bars.

At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and six more have already died in ICE custody this year.

Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.