US officials visit Alcatraz amid Trump’s plan to reopen island prison https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/trump-alcatraz-prison #Trumpadministration #SanFrancisco #California #USprisons #Worldnews #WestCoast #USnews
Five New Orleans jailbreak fugitives remain on the run as police round up alleged helpers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/new-orleans-jailbreak-arrests #NewOrleans #USpolicing #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
The prison classroom was where she could finally be herself. Now it’s gone https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/10/the-prison-classroom-was-where-she-could-finally-be-herself-now-its-gone #LGBTQ+rights #Transgender #USprisons #Society #USnews #Maine #Women
Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/south-carolina-firing-squad-execution #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #USnews
Not just Alcatraz: the notorious US prisons Trump is already reopening https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/alcatraz-trump-immigration-plan-prisons #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #SanFrancisco #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #California #USprisons #WestCoast #NewJersey #Michigan #USnews #Kansas
A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to revive it as prison https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/alcatraz-tourists-trump-prison-reaction #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #USprisons #USnews
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison for ‘most ruthless offenders’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/trump-plan-reopen-alcatraz-prison #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #SanFrancisco #DonaldTrump #USprisons #Worldnews #USnews
Trump administration jails hundreds of immigrants in notorious federal prisons https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/trump-immigrants-federal-prisons #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #USpolitics #USprisons #Atlanta #USnews
Some good news for a Friday afternoon! After a Verite News and @ProPublica investigation, a Louisiana district judge has vacated the death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, whose 1998 murder conviction was based on allegedly fabricated bite-mark analysis. Judge Alvin Sharp pointed to new testimony that said such analysis is "no longer valid" and "not scientifically defensible." Duncan, now 56, has spent 27 years on death row. It is unclear yet whether he will walk free. At the second link, find the original reporting on Duncan's conviction.
Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/death-row-executioners #Trumpadministration #Capitalpunishment #USjusticesystem #Deathanddying #USpolitics #USprisons #USnews
Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mikal-mahdi-execution-south-carolina #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Lawyers fight to stop South Carolina man’s execution by firing squad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/south-carolina-execution-firing-squad-mikal-mahdi #Capitalpunishment #USsupremecourt #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Revealed: drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of people https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/california-prison-drug-tests #California #USprisons #WestCoast #USnews #Drugs
Florida to execute man convicted of killing woman he abducted https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/florida-execution-michael-tanzi-janet-acosta #USprisons #Florida #USnews
Second South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/second-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Woman strangled during overnight visit with her husband at a California prison https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/woman-strangled-california-prison #California #USprisons #WestCoast #UScrime #USnews
Judge orders Trump administration to return two trans prisoners to women’s facilities https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-trans-women-prisons #Trumpadministration #LGBTQ+rights #Transgender #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USprisons #USnews
‘I escaped one gulag only to end up in another’: Russian asylum seekers face Ice detention in the US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/i-escaped-one-gulag-only-to-end-up-in-another-russian-asylum-seekers-face-ice-detention-in-the-us #Trumpadministration #Bidenadministration #USimmigration #VladimirPutin #AlexeiNavalny #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USprisons #Worldnews #JoeBiden #Russia #USnews
New York fires more than 2,000 prison guards as it declares strike is over https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/new-york-fires-prison-guards-strike #USprisons #USunions #NewYork #USnews
South Carolina moves ahead with ‘cruel’ firing squad execution despite outcry https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/south-carolina-firing-squad-execution #SouthCarolina #USprisons #USnews
