New #longread from Meg O'Connor: Samuel Anthony committed a drug crime as a teen 23 yrs ago. He served his time & rebuilt his life. Then ICE deported him to Sierra Leone, a country he hadn't visited since he was six. Will the Biden admin right this wrong? theappeal.org/samuel-anthony…

The state prison in Pine Bluff, Arkansas has rejected an entire package of our books because the mailroom decided that 'inmates cannot have art books' (Policy determination conveyed via this purple post-it note affixed by the prison to our original invoice and mailed back to us)

Today Los Angeles jails just posted their 11th in-custody death for the year -- a 38-year-old woman who died in CRDF, the women's jail in Lynwood.

We polled more than 50 prosecutors in counties where demonstrations are occurring to ask if they'll charge pro-Palestine campus protesters. So far, only two said they don't want to prosecute people for peacefully protesting. theappeal.org/we-asked-prose…

Breaking: Meg O'Connor, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸, and I polled more than 50 prosecuting agencies where campus protests are occurring to ask if they'll charge pro-Palestine demonstrators. Only two so far have expressed any apprehension. Ethan Corey mapped it here: theappeal.org/we-asked-prose…

More than 600 people have been arrested at antiwar protests at colleges across the U.S.

More than 50 prosecutors now must decide whether or not to pursue charges. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸, Meg O'Connor, and Jerry Iannelli asked them what they'll do. theappeal.org/we-asked-prose…

Make sure to listen to my brilliant colleague Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 talk about our prison commissary reporting on KPFA: kpfa.org/area941/episod…

We've uncovered new details about Absolute Standards, the CT business accused of selling a lethal drug used in the federal execution spree.

'They basically bragged about how they built this little home market.”

w/ Dan Moritz-Rabson for The Intercept:

theintercept.com/2024/04/25/abs…

📚 GIJN's Stories of the Week:

🔵ICIJ revealed the role Africa's last absolute monarchy may have played in gold smuggling.
🟣The Appeal's investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative prices – up to 5x higher than in the community.

More: mailchi.mp/gijn/newslette…

Hi all. Nerdy policy wonk who follows Congress closely weighing in with a thread on legislation (getting no media coverage) moving rapidly through Congress that targets US non-profit orgs, with the immediate & explicit target being orgs involved in Palestine protesting.

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Launching today, our The Associated Press investigation on how knock-out drugs became tools to control people alongside Tasers and handcuffs _ and how more people are dying after injections than the public knows apnews.com/article/invest…

At City College: 'We don't trust the chancellor, but ... [they said] that they will not sweep the camp tonight. Which pretty much means that we fought off the cops.'

'This is a numbers game. We need people overnight. We need people. ... We have hand warmers, we have food.'

hm... 'A City Council analysis of the most recent data from Jul22 -Jun23 showed that while there were nearly 1400 grievances about sexual-related allegations filed by detainees, the Department of Correction reported just 246 total allegations under [PREA]' gothamist.com/news/city-coun…

This is a jaw dropping story. NYC’s attorneys, obligated to report settlements and judgments against the NYPD, failed to report $1.2 billion in payouts over a 10 year period. Approximately half of the total payouts during that period.

cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/04…

From The Appeal: A report on unconscionable price gouging on commissary items in American prisons.

In Arkansas, all food items “deemed healthy” were marked up by 40%, as were over-the-counter “health aids,' such as reading glasses and denture adhesive.

arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…

After months of denying Rosalind Adams FOIL requests & even saying the doc didn't exist, we got the Chicago Atlantic cannabis contract

The details are🚨🚨🚨

Fantasy $ projections, sky high interest rates, taxpayer-funded guarantees for private equity

thecity.nyc/2024/04/24/can…