The Marshall Project

After a Death Behind Bars, Families Struggle for Answers. This Guide Can Help.

Thousands of people die in U.S. prisons and jails each year. The surviving families are often left asking basic questions: What happened, and could the death have been prevented? Too often, families ...
CNN

Staffing shortages, old facilities, and ‘nothing to lose’: These are the factors that contribute to prison breaks across the country

The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison, sparking a two-week manhunt, and the escape ...
The Marshall Project

We Spent a Year Covering Deaths Behind Bars. Here’s What We Learned.

Over the past year, journalists at The Marshall Project have persistently covered the many ways people are dying in prisons and jails across the United States. In our ongoing series, Dying Behind Bars ...
Times Observer

Jail population decreasing; staffing issues persist

The Warren County Prison’s population is decreasing – though staffing at the jail and providing mental health services to inmates is still a problem The warden provided a comprehensive operational ...
Us Weekly on MSN

Is 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' real? Netflix's prison series explained

Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment chronicles revolutionary changes to incarceration taking place at select prisons in the U.S. The second season of Unlocked: A Jail Experiment — which premiered ...