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Inside story: the US prison system

A series that examines what life is like inside American prisons by hearing directly from inmates, their families, correction officers and others working in the US justice and correctional system
  • Pope Francis leaves after his weekly general audience in St Peter's square at the Vatican

    Thanks for nothing, Pope Francis

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Francis casts himself as a reformer, but his views on women's roles in the church are as conservative as ever

  • jail sex offender for longer

    Is miscarriage murder? States that put fetal rights ahead of a mother's say so

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: The effort to undo Roe v Wade threatens not just reproductive rights but the very definition of personhood for American women

  • A prison cell door

    How prisons became asylums, but worse: confinement without treatment

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: The case of Jan Green, placed in solitary when suffering from symptoms, is typical of how prisons warehouse the mentally ill

  • Governor Jerry Brown says California's prison crisis over

    Governor Jerry Brown, California's prison crisis is not over

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Reducing the state's dangerously overcrowded prisons to merely 150% capacity is no one else's idea of a problem solved

  • NH State Prison for Women, Goffstown

    Discrimination against women in prison keeps them going back

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: In New Hampshire, the rate of recidivism is worse for women than for men – all because rehab services for them are worse

  • Andrew Cuomo New York State governor, 2011

    Breaking the hold of corporate welfare on America's incarceration industry

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: With stricken budgets, many states have been cutting prison populations. But vested interests are resisting prison closures

  • CCA guards in Arizona

    Arizona funnels business to CCA through its school-to-prison pipeline

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Casa Grande invited a private prison firm to help make a high-school marijuana bust. Can you spot the conflict of interest?

  • elderly prisoner

    The US Bureau of Prisons' lack of compassion costs it dear

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: The federal BOP houses more than 200,000 inmates. Last year, it granted 25 compassionate releases for the aged, sick or dying

  • immigrant detention center

    Expensive and inhumane: the shameful state of US immigrant detention

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Last year, it cost US taxpayers $1.7bn to house record numbers of mainly Latino immigrants in facilities Ice has failed to overhaul

  • A prisoner

    Alabama's prison HIV segregation policy due for justice

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: A court may end Alabama corrections department's isolation of HIV-positive prisoners. But it leaves a legacy of prejudice

  • Man in handcuffs

    Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'?

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Marijuana legalisation ballots signal how public opinion is turning against the prohibition policy that needlessly filled US prisons

  • babar ahmad supporters outside royal courts justice london

    Britain's double standard on extradition to US prison abuse

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: The UK home secretary condemned US detention when refusing to extradite Gary McKinnon – yet willingly deported five Muslims

  • Rikers Island prison

    Ugly echoes of Katrina as Bloomberg disregards prisoner safety from Sandy

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: New York's mayor is responsible for 12,000 prisoners on Rikers Island, but was remarkably blase about their risk during Sandy

  • A prisoner talks with his wife in California

    Prison video visits threaten to put profit before public safety

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Virtual visitation can help reduce rates of recidivism. But not if it's just a way for telecom companies to fleece prisoners' families

  • Jeremy Stewart, a three strikes and out prisoner

    Proposition 36 promises an end to California's punitive three strikes law

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Life-sentencing young offenders for petty crimes costs California taxpayers about $3m a time. Is that rational, let alone just?

  • Inmate and guard prison

    Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca belatedly embraces jail reform

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Given an FBI probe, class action lawsuit and highly critical report on systemic abuse, he had little choice. So now he's on the hook

  • Babar Ahmad

    Why justice is at risk in the Babar Ahmad extradition case

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: The 'war on terror' abuse of special administrative measures means that suspects held in the US are deprived of a fair trial

  • Outsourcing: public and private sectors still have much to learn

    How lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: Private prison corporations say they don't lobby on custodial policy. They seem to find legislators with views aligned anyway

  • Jail inmate looks out of barred window

    America's invisible incarcerated millions

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: It's hard to make good policy to keep people out of prison when US census data effectively 'disappear' those who are there

  • ADX

    US 'supermax' prison is condemned internationally for its abusive regime

    Sadhbh Walshe

    Sadhbh Walshe: The Bureau of Prisons boss seems oblivious, as ADX Florence faces a class action lawsuit brought by mentally ill prisoners

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