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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 Pulitzer Center-supported project, Dying for Justice in America's Jails, investigates how dec...

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, the authorities at Presidency Correctional Home in Kolkata came up with a plan: measure the womenâ...

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 year in a row. High school sports postponed by the pandemic officially also opened Monday in Massach...

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 up for the worst. Torture, stale food, biting cold and harsh labour – Bollywood had already ac...