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prisons
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Building trust first helped journalist report on COVID-19 in prisons
The pandemic has had a significant impact on prison populations, where there have been almost 400,000 positive cases across the…
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Freelance reporter reveals challenges in Georgia’s inmate health care
For more than a year, Atlanta-based freelance journalist and AHCJ member Max Blau investigated the troublesome health care delivery in jails across…
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Tracking deaths in custody in America’s jails
Gary Harki of The Virginian-Pilot came to his team’s sweeping series on mental illness, death and U.S. jails by way…
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Reporters explore health care issues in jails, prisons
From time to time, the tabs in my web browser taunt me with the stories I’ve saved to read later.…
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Reporter finds disciplined doctors among Department of Corrections staff
A number of medical professionals working for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections have “less-than-spotless pasts,” according to Oklahoman reporter Andrew…
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Is California’s prison health system really fixed?
After years of failing to prevent preventable inmate deaths, the California Department of Corrections health system was placed under a…
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More than 22,000 inmates are HIV-positive
Poynter’s Al Tompkins spotted a new U.S. Department of Justice report (PDF) on HIV in American prisons. Among other things,…
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Elderly prison population booming
CNN’s Stephanie Chen considers the issues that surround elderly prisoners, a fast-growing group that has generally flown under the radar.…
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Prisons to get H1N1 vaccines before everyone else?
Poynter’s Al Tompkins, always quick to seize on an interesting emerging story, rounds up reports that inmates are getting H1N1…
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States use videoconferencing for prison health care
John Gramlich of the state policy-focused nonprofit news organization Stateline.org reports that more states are using videoconferencing for inmate health…