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Mississippi Today's two-month probe into MDOC since Burl Cain became corrections commissioner found some gain but more work to be done.

Yousef Bozorgnia, Sharon Dolovich and Aaron Littman will receive Public Impact Research Awards at a June 2 ceremony.

In six states, the rate of deaths in prisons doubled between 2019 and 2020.

The Behind Bars Data Project’s database improves on discontinued efforts by the federal government to report this information.

Thousands of deaths in jails, prisons, and police custody have gone uncounted in recent years. Now the DOJ is calling for changes to a federal law.

People inside prisons report that infections are ongoing even though precautions and testing have fallen by the wayside.

There are now 533 confirmed monkeypox cases in Illinois. And one of those cases was confirmed last week in Cook County Jail. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office said the individual is believed to have contracted the virus in the community prior to being ordered into custody.

There have been 10 deaths tied to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic at the Tarrant County Jail. Sheriff Bill Waybourn’s method of mitigating the spread of the disease within his jail was issuing half a bar of soap every other Friday to the entire population of people in jail custody. Throughout the course

L.A. County leaders have been talking about closing the decrepit Men's Central Jail for years. Why has there been so little progress?

Highlights from the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, PBS NewsHour and others.