prisoners

Despite a near 10% rise in jail populations — bringing with it a rise in suicides, assaults and deaths — the governor looks to jail more for longer. Reform advocates call it political.

Rises in assaults, deaths, and suicides plague the state's 242 jails as the state saw a 9% rise in population numbers. Mentally ill inmates seen by regulators as in 'dire' situation.

A New York City opera company created an updated version of Fidelio for the Black Lives Matter era. The performance features singers who are incarcerated in real life.

From Texas Standard: Texas has long had a “tough on crime” reputation, and the numbers back that up. Texas is seventh in the nation when it comes to its...

From Texas Standard . Arnold Darby, a 69-year-old inmate at Huntsville's Goree Unit, speaks with the Texas Standard about his craft as a bootmaker....

From Texas Standard: Stephanie Garcia is a high school student. She’s also a 24-year-old inmate at the Lockhart Correctional Facility, a minimum...

From Texas Standard: Texas led the country in exonerations last year, with 54 statewide. in the state. New York placed a distant second with only 17,...

Words Unlocked, a poetry contest for juveniles in corrections, has drawn more than 1,000 entries. Its judge, Jimmy Santiago Baca, says it was a poetry book that helped him survive his own prison term.

From Texas Standard: In August 1992, Dallas Police received a call from a witness who reported seeing a rape. When officers arrived, they found two men,...

From Texas Standard: Dallas-based Securus Technologies is one of the leading providers of phone services inside prisons across the nation. And now they...