At the Sacramento Bee, unionized journalists are withholding our bylines from McClatchy’s AI-generated “articles” in protest. According to a McClatchy corporate exec, non-unionized reporters will be forced to use their bylines. We stand against this initiative. gizmodo.com/newspaper-co...

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Many incarcerated people approaching menopause are left to navigate these seismic physical shifts on their own, self-diagnosing and advising each other. For some, the lack of information and knowledge about menopause makes it difficult to even name what they’re experiencing.

Last summer, an incarcerated woman in Missouri had a hot flash while we were on the phone. Since then, I've been talking to people around the country about what it's like to go through perimenopause and menopause in prison. Here's the result, co-published by @themarshallproject.org and @19thnews.org

I tend to agree w people who say innocence cases are the low-hanging fruit of carceral reform, but it's remarkable - & deeply symptomatic - how far Louisiana officials will go to deny that these clear miscarriages of justice occur & even retaliate against their victims apnews.com/article/new-...

“There are many transgender people in Kansas … who won’t vote at all. They will just abstain from voting,” said Matthew Neumann, who directs the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas boltsmag.org/kansas-trans...

One of our main goals at The 51st is to make D.C. an easier place to live. One way to do that is by explaining stuff that is otherwise confusing, mystifying, or intentionally opaque! What do you want to know more about? What can we help you understand? Let us know:

The intermittent work, productivity monitoring, and surplus of AI-vetted contractors means that workers are effectively always on call, often work overtime, and are paid for only the minutes they are typing. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

The Supreme Court refuses to review the 5th Circuit's extremely dubious ruling against Rodney Reed's request for a DNA test, which could prove the death row inmate's innocence. (There is a very good chance he is innocent!) All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now."

An upcoming ballot measure in Virginia would make it the 26th state to allow anyone who is not presently in prison to vote. Currently, people with any felony convictions lose their right to vote for life. boltsmag.org/virginia-con...

Ruth Asawa, "Spring," 1965 www.moma.org/collection/w...

Mamdani's promised $65m for gender affirming care doesn't appear to be in his preliminary budget. In my first for @prismreports.org, I explored why that might be, and what trans advocates and activists have to say about it. prismreports.org/2026/03/18/m...

“Social Circle has cut off water and sewer services at the warehouse-turned-detention center and put a lock on the water meter.”

Read this fine article about Texas prison bands then sign up for @mauricechammah.bsky.social's limited run newsletter on the topic. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/10/p...

Amid a crisis in the state’s prison system, the governor’s and legislature’s budget proposals differ, but largely lack major reforms. nysfocus.com/2026/03/10/c...

"The case was seen as a major test of the first amendment and whether the government could use a broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters. It marked the first time the government alleged individuals were part of an antifa terrorist cell in a criminal prosecution."

The data drops as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a moratorium on datacenter construction. 'We need to take a deep breath. We need to make sure that AI and robotics work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.'

Significance: "It is a landmark case that tests both the limits of immunity for military contractors, as well as the ability of foreign citizens to pursue accountability in American courts for offenses that happened thousands of miles away."

The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

New Yorkers in six prisons shared their thoughts with me on how the CO’s strike continues to affect life inside, one year later, for @hellgatenyc.com

"It’s very hard to keep your sanity when every little thing is scrutinized, and it feels like you’re being punished for every little thing."

One year after the New York prison guard strike, it's incarcerated New Yorkers who are suffering from its lingering impacts. Read the stories of six New Yorkers locked up in state prisons: hellgatenyc.com/ny-prison-st...

I talked to @ncprnews.bsky.social about how the NY state correction officers' strike is still felt throughout the state's prisons, one year after it ended

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

State legislators are calling for an investigation into conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, following my reporting on recent suicides at the maximum security women's prison

From Madyson Fitzgerald: As concerns grow over rising electricity prices and the environmental effects of data centers, some local and state officials want to halt new developments. https://stateline.org/2026/03/06/temporarily-banning-data-centers-draws-more-interest-from-state-local-officials/

Three people have died at Bedford Hills, NY's maximum security prison for women, in the last four weeks. Two of them died by suicide amid deteriorating conditions at the prison, according to currently and formerly incarcerated people I spoke to for @nysfocus.bsky.social

For generations of Black American mothers, preparing their children for interactions with police, including arrests or violence, is an unwelcome rite of passage known as “The Talk.” In the Trump era, a different version of “The Talk” is emerging among immigrant parents. bit.ly/3OPcP2a

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

“It’s like I’m in a giant, open prison,” he said. “I can walk around, but I’m not really part of the people here. I’m not among them.” @liv-veazey.bsky.social on the Kafkaesque maze faced by those seeking asylum in New York @nysfocus.bsky.social

During last night's State of the Union, President Trump correctly touted a record-low murder rate — but homicides were already nearing record lows when he returned to office. More from our factcheck:

More than a year after the Trump administration was first sued over its anti-transgender prison policies, DOJ literally showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy — and it is even more anti-trans, aiming to end trans-related care in federal prisons altogether.

Mamdani released a plan Thursday to end nearly five years of emergency orders that have suspended basic jail rules at Rikers Island. But some reforms — including limits on solitary confinement — won’t take effect for nearly a year, and others require court approval. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/m...

Cops arrested a man who opposed a data center being built because his went ever so slightly over his allotted speaking time www.404media.co/man-opposing...

“You can’t just do oversight for six months and then walk away.” Hochul aims to pull $3 million in funding from the state's independent prison monitoring and oversight agency, allocated a year ago following the killing of Robert Brooks

“The plan's $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states, according to state budget data."

🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract. The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.

A woman was wrongly charged with fetal homicide in January before the charge was dropped. Prosecutors are still pursing three other charges in that case. Now another Kentucky woman and her husband are facing charges of reckless homicide after what they said was a miscarriage:

NY prison commissioner reports 2,700 National Guard members are still stationed in the state's prisons as the system continues to reel from last February's CO strike (that's down ever so slightly from 3,000 reported as of last summer)

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Churches have become a key piece of the immigrant defense movement in the Twin Cities, coordinating grocery deliveries and rent assistance for immigrant families hiding at home.

Thank you, @gothamist.com, for confirming the specific disgusting reasons we shouldn't eat the toxic snow mountains gothamist.com/news/we-test...

"We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

New York's youth prisons are a disaster. Kids locked in solitary for days at a time. Staff forced to work 24-plus-hour shifts. Crisis after crisis. "I'm a human rights violator," one whistleblower told me. They recounted the nightmare at one facility: nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/o...

New: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer” www.propublica.org/article/why-...

today’s mass media layoffs really go beyond “industry news.” we’re watching the removal of the people who explain what’s actually happening to us, beyond canned press releases and official narratives, at a time when we need that the most. healthy democracies need journalism!!