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News Articles: prisons

Two of artist Dean Gillespie's miniatures in the traveling visual arts exhibition <em>Marking Time</em>, which examines mass incarceration.

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  • Arts & Life

'Imagining Freedom' will give $125 million to art projects focused on incarceration

Since 2020, the Mellon Foundation has given over $40 million to arts and humanities projects addressing mass incarceration. In all, it says, it will donate $125 million to such efforts.

February 15, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Georgia Governor Kemp delivers the 2023 State of the State address on Jan. 26 as Lt. Gov. Burt Jones looks on.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Kemp's State of the State focuses on violent crime, budget; Mining the Okefenokee?

Thursday on Political Rewind: In his State of the State speech, Gov. Brian Kemp pledged to crack down on violent crime and laid out his plan for Georgia's surplus. Democrats responded, saying the funds should strengthen social safety nets. Meanwhile, there are continued efforts to stop mining in the Okefenokee.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut and
  • Chase McGee
Daniel Defense guns shown with logo outfacing.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Gun manufacturers testify; Georgians respond to abortion law; Ossoff investigates

Thursday on Political Rewind: The CEO of Daniel Defense claimed his company bore no responsibility for its use in the Uvalde shooting. Instead, he blamed an "erosion of personal responsibility." Plus, a majority of Georgians oppose the new abortion law and many say they'll vote accordingly.
 

July 28, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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Terri Whitehead, the former jail administrator at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, testifies as the Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations holds a hearing on charges of corruption and misconduct at the prison, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2022.

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  • News

Witnesses describe 'appalling' conditions at U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta

Witnesses describe inoperable elevators, mold and broken air conditioning, overflowing sewers, contraband within U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta.

July 27, 2022
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By:
  • Devon Zwald
Kerry Robinson is one of three Georgians currently seeking restitution for a wrongful conviction through an ad hoc legislative process that critics have long described as inefficient and inconsistent.

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  • Politics

Bipartisan effort to reform Georgia’s wrongful conviction compensation process advances

A bipartisan bill in the Georgia House of Representatives aims to create a wrongful conviction compensation statute and establish a formal process.

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • Clay Voytek
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Terry England, R-Auburn, speaks to the House in Atlanta on Friday, March 5, 2021. England’s committee on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, passed a revised budget for the current year that includes higher pay for state employees and teachers and state income tax rebates.

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  • News

Georgia Senate seeks bigger raises for nurses, prison guards

Georgia state senators want prison guards and school nurses to get larger raises. They also want to set aside a big chunk of money to cover the state's share of an upcoming federal transportation program. Those are among the changes the Senate Appropriations Committee made Monday as it passed a revised budget for the year ending June 30.

March 01, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Georgia State Prison

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  • Politics

Georgia corrections prepares to spend $600M to replace older prisons

Georgia’s prison system could undergo a radical change with Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposal to spend $600 million to open two new prisons that would replace four outdated correctional facilities with the aim to make prisons safer and cut costs.

January 19, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Police walk on the roof of the Litoral Penitentiary on Saturday after riots broke out inside the jail in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

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  • Latin America

Dozens of inmates die in a battle between prison gangs in Ecuador

A prolonged gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador's largest prison was the latest violence to hit the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw the country's worst prison bloodbath.

November 13, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Prison cell

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  • Law

Justice Department Launches Probe Of Conditions In Georgia Prisons

The investigation was sparked by complaints from civil rights groups and others who have expressed concerns about inmate safety. At least 26 prisoners died in Georgia prisons by confirmed or suspected homicide last year, and 18 have died so far in 2021.

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Sonia Doe, pictured here, reached a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections that will make it standard for the state to assign prison stays to a person based on their gender identity, not the sex assigned at birth.

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  • Law

New Jersey Prisoners Will Be Placed Based On Gender Identity Under A New Policy

As part of civil lawsuit settlement, the New Jersey Department of Corrections has agreed to make it customary for prisoners to be assigned a prison stay in line with their gender identity.

June 29, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Steve and Neiva Magaña's baby is now 8 months old. Steve has still not met his son in person.

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  • National

When The Pandemic Closed Prisons To Visitors Loved Ones Picked Up Pen And Paper

In the year since the pandemic caused most prisons to shut their gates to visitors, people have not been able to see their incarcerated friends and family. So, some turned to letter writing.

March 13, 2021
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By:
  • Ninna Gaensler-Debs
The IRS distributed the second round of stimulus money to eligible inmates using debit cards, which state prisons are unable to process. Correctional officials have communicated the problem to the federal agency, but it's unclear what steps the IRS will take to fix it.

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  • National

Stimulus Debit Cards Unusable For Prison Inmates In At Least Four States

The debit cards can't be processed in prisons so inmates can't deposit their payments. The IRS has acknowledged the problem, but hasn't offered an immediate solution.

February 06, 2021
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By:
  • Jimmy Jenkins
Georgia State Prison in Reidsville

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  • News

COVID Races Through Some Georgia Prisons, Sickening Staff And Inmates

Reports of poor conditions and treatment of inmates inside some of Georgia’s prisons is a humanitarian crisis according to the Southern Center for Human Rights, which calls for a Department of Justice investigation as suicide rates rise and recent large-scale riots have broken out.

Inmates are locked in cells for days on end and sick inmates are not getting adequate care while quarantined, the inmate advocates allege. 

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap

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  • Health

Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Dave Davies

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