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While growing up inside a prison leads to a range of difficulties for children, those separated from their mothers and left on the outside also face different traumas. In this in-depth reportage for India's The Wire, journalist Sukanya Shantha talks to mothers who had to give birth in jail and those who went without seeing their children for years to keep them protected.

While growing up inside a prison leads to a range of difficulties for children, those separated from their mothers and left on the outside too face different traumas.

For many years, Lois Ahrens has been pushing to change the nation’s prison system. The Northampton activist, who heads the Real Cost of Prisons Project, has worked with fellow activists, artists, researchers and incarcerated people to try to end...

In April 2018 amid much self-congratulation, Massachusetts legislators passed into law the so-called Criminal Justice Reform Act.In addition to other sections of the law that have not been enacted and enforced was a provision requiring sheriffs and...

Despite the false characterization of those of us who organize and advocate for the decarceration of people incarcerated at the Hampshire County jail during COVID-19 as voicing (“Inmate lauds sheriff during pandemic,” Aug. 17) “verbal hysteria” and...

Shining a Light on Global Mass Incarceration: Trauma Ethics in Prison Reporting. Join the Pulitzer Center on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at 11:00am EDT for a discussion on the challenges of reporting on prisons around the world. A panel of Pulitzer Center grantees will speak about their experiences while working on their Pulitzer Center projects. The event will feature: Sarah Shourd, a trauma-informed investigative journalist, playwright, and 2019 Stanford JSK Knight fellow whose most recent ...

People sometimes ask me to point to a moment in my life that set me on a path to public office. The following is one of those moments.In the early 1970s, the doorbell rang in a sprawling Sisters of St. Joseph convent in the Brooklyn Heights...

‘Buzz of a Mosquito… But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners When Indian women go to prison, they mostly go to a prison inside a prison. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty Women08/Mar/2021 This article, part of the series ‘Barred–The Prisons Project’, is produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. New Delhi/Nagpur: To fit 45 women in a room so small that it needs only one bulb and a fan, says Aparajita Bose,...

2 months ago in Local Photo: WHMP BOSTON (AP) – Two more coronavirus mass vaccination sites are opening in Massachusetts this week. The Natick Mall location opening Monday is expected to administer about 500 shots per day at first, with the capacity to boost that to 3,000 doses per day. State health officials say another site is opening Wednesday at the former Circuit City in Dartmouth. Meanwhile, the Boston Calling music festival has been canceled for second ...

From Segregation to Labour, Manu’s Caste Law Governs the Indian Prison System In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty Rights10/Dec/2020 This article, part of the series ‘Barred–The Prisons Project’, is produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. New Delhi/Mumbai/Bangalore: On his first day at the Alwar district prison, Ajay Kumar* was gearing...