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!!

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

A federal judge says she won't halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and the Twin Cities as a lawsuit over it proceeds.

Always weird to see a specific anecdote in a story you reported yourself over a year ago re-reported by a bigger outlet. If you want to read more about parents and caregivers on the frontline of movements, and how they're involving their kids in their activism, take a look at @prismreports.org

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

Feels appropriate for the news cycle that Luigi’s would-be liberator provided a Minnesota drivers license

The NY corrections officers wildcat strike last year, during which thousands of National Guard troops were stationed to replace staff, will cost the state more than $1 billion, per @gothamist.com

Really beautiful work from @themarshallproject.org documenting the Californians who took part in a massive hunger strike 13 years ago to challenge the use of solitary confinement in state prisons

Of the nearly two dozen violent, and in some cases fatal, arrests identified by @documentedny.bsky.social, DHS published official press releases for only two.

NEW: Nine months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing programming that they don’t have access to. nysfocus.com/2026/01/26/d...

DOCCS says programs are running throughout the state's prisons, but I spoke to people in 12 different prisons throughout the state, lawyers, & watchdogs who say the reality on the ground is very different. And in some cases, people are stuck in prison past release dates because of it.

ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

We could use some more reporting on ICE use of Medicaid data to target people. What kinds of databases, in which states, can ICE access? stateline.org/2026/01/20/i...

*Six years* after the city's Department of Investigation found paper logbooks used to track incidents in city jails were significantly undercounting violent incidents, the Dept of Correction is finally piloting an electronic system in a singular jail on Rikers Island

The walkout, the largest by nurses in New York City history, is driven by demands for increased staffing, better safety and preserved benefits.

DHS said the man died while he tried to commit suicide and “violently resisted security staff.” A medical examiner called it “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression.” A witness told the Washpost *on the record* that guards choked him as he said, “no puedo respirar.” Gift link⤵️ wapo.st/49FW4NG

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

"Who gets to count as the press now, and who gets left out when access is redefined? ... Community, ethnic and independent media are not asking for special treatment. We are asking not to be erased in a moment when the definition of 'press' is rapidly transforming."

As thousands of immigration agents arrive in Minnesota, neighbors are working together to track, distract and protest ICE. The cat-and-mouse game between activists and agents is escalating as tactics change daily.

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

Location data from phone companies requires a warrant. But ICE believes this data doesn't, because people give it up "voluntarily." That's according to this internal ICE legal analysis shared with us. Ignores that people don't know what apps are tracking them www.404media.co/inside-ices-...