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Private prisons in the US can be a living hell for the powerless yet a booming business for some other.

Private prisons in the US can be a living hell for the powerless yet a booming business for some other.

Private prisons in the US can be a living hell for the powerless yet a booming business for some other.

Highlights from the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, CNN and others.

Biden promised to overhaul the way federal prisons respond to Covid. But a year in, very little has changed, and now Omicron is surging.

A San Diego detention center that houses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees saw COVID-19 cases surge last week, reporting the third highest number of active cases among ICE detainees of any of the federal agency's more than 130 detention centers.

The infections account for about 10 percent of ICE detainees at the facility based on population numbers.

As the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, omicron, surges across the country, and as boosters become available, we cannot continue to neglect the wellbeing and safety of...

Prisons in multiple states restricted access to pandemic data in 2021.

Amanda Klonsky is a research and policy fellow at the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project and a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Crown School