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Topic: Prison System

Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Violence problem in Pennsylvania jails

Brett Sholtis - KFF Health News
Low angle vintage prison cell (Getty Images)

1 in 5 people in US prisons have COVID

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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U.S. prisons: Outrageously unjust

Alon Ben-Meir - The Globalist
FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2014, file photo, inmates wait to enter their assigned cell block after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. Corrections officials are proposing new sentencing rules that aim to trim California's prison population by nearly 2,000 inmates in the first year and by 9,500 inmates after four years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Social distancing impossible in prisons

Victoria Law - Truthout
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Sanders unveils criminal justice plan

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

BraGate: Kansas City's underwire war

JoAnne Sweeny
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Fight the racist jail system by shopping

Rachel Leah
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The injustice of parole violations

Shawn D. Bushway, David J. Harding - The Conversation
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New film series: "We Are Witnesses"

Rachel Leah
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Ben Norton
(Reuters/Jim Young)

Huckabee endorses slavery

Scott Eric Kaufman
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Jenny Kutner
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Prachi Gupta
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

NSA + DEA = police state!

Andrew O'Hehir
Warren Hill

Katie McDonough
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Natasha Lennard
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Natasha Lennard
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Natasha Lennard
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