"Higher incarceration rates are associated with ... negative health consequences for non-incarcerated women: increased frequency of adverse reproductive health outcomes, diminished access to healthcare, and elevated rates of new HIV infections. There are also serious financial repercussions."

"One way to improve conditions for the elderly in prison is by changing the laws that limit their access to courts. The 1995 Prison Litigation Reform Act ... made it more difficult for the incarcerated to file [legal] claims by requiring they complete an exhaustive grievance procedure before[hand]."

"The carceral system is notorious for denying and slow-walking medical care, and for the convoluted, lengthy process required to be seen by a healthcare provider — practices... contribut[ing] to higher mortality rates on the inside. In rural facilities, these conditions are often exceptionally bad."

"Ghosts hang across my windows like sheer valances ... The ghosts of the children I once played with, now mostly deceased. As I sit here I'm taunted and teased by the slick luck of the ones that remain, peering in on me from the outside while I'm locked in — the self-made, spotlighted, celebrated."

"[F]acility officials refused to purchase cable television for the incarcerated population using funds collected [there]from ... Curiously, however, officials saw no problem with using thousands of dollars of welfare fund money to buy Netflix subscriptions that incarcerated people could not access."

"Marcus [Henderson] convinced me that the paper was bigger than any one person. By publishing stories about our incarcerated peers — stories told with care and humanity — we could change [society's] reductive narratives ... Had I left the paper, I probably wouldn't have had my sentence commuted."

"Because many sanctuary policies only block ICE from renting jail space and ignore the U.S. Marshals, they leave the door open to immigration detention through federal criminalization. ... Renting jail space to the Marshals has been key to overcoming sanctuary policies."

"[T]here are always people ... who can benefit from your story."

"States that still limit [food program] access ... because of former convictions must immediately abandon this discriminatory practice, and invest in infrastructure so that formerly incarcerated people and food-insecure families have access to transportation, housing, and employment opportunities."

"[S]ometimes I feel like I was let out of prison with my cuffs and shackles on. I'm not making any excuses for the way I grew up, the way many of us grew up. But incarceration took away my family's voice. It destroyed our relationship to politics ... in this country. We are not patriots."

"[P]eople with disabilities are up to four times more likely to never return home after a natural disaster ... [P]eople with one or more disabilities — a group that includes more than 70 million Americans — are also four times more likely to be critically injured or die in a natural disaster."

"[NY] spends more than $3 billion annually on prisons yet continues to ration care as if acknowledging suffering were too expensive... [N]eglect is what proves costly. People return home untreated, destabilized, and at higher risk of reoffending. Communities bear the weight. Families pay the price."

"If both parties have been willing to consent to supporting a mass killing of a population, it's not a shock that both parties participated in the firing of college presidents and ... arrests of students."

"There is no doubt, and it is beyond argument, that irreparable harm will begin to occur if it hasn't already ... in the terror [the SNAP freeze] has caused some people about the availability of funding for food for their family."

"[I]n one of the largest H-2A criminal cases ... a federal judge described the abuse of [H-2A] workers as a form of modern-day slavery."

"[Drug] manufacturers should [publicly] disclose ... where medications and their key ingredients are made."

"The current Green Guides allow companies to make blanket 'recyclable' claims if 60% of consumers or communities have access to recycling facilities that will take the product. The guides don't specify ... if there needs to be a reasonable assurance that the item will be made into a new product."

"The law's author, Leslie Manookian, is a finance executive ... belie[ving] that vaccines are dangerous and that infectious diseases are beneficial. (That risk-benefit calculus is not supported by the overwhelming body of evidence, not even by studies the [anti-vaccination] movement relies on.)"

"[I]t is unconscionably reckless on our part as a regulatory agency not to act swiftly, while knowingly and willingly allowing the continued operation of activities ... contaminating groundwater and presenting a potential endangerment to the health and safety of persons and the environment."

"More scrutiny upfront means ... adding costs. Many banks don't ask questions until it's too late."

"[T]he regulation would slash at least [an estimated] 830,000 people's eligibility for disability benefits ... Separately, the Trump administration is preparing a proposed regulation that would eliminate or sharply cut the [SSI] benefits of roughly 400,000 extremely poor and disabled people."

"State driver's license databases often include a variety of sensitive information ... including place of birth, passport number, biometrics, address, email and employment information."

"[I]t's important for Americans to consider if they want the government ... to have so much consolidated information on them."

"Israel spent over 740 days, close to $100 billion, and ... about 470 soldiers[' lives] to reduce Gaza to dust."

"US officials said ... 'many hundreds' of possible violations of the Leahy Laws, which bar US military assistance from going to units credibly accused of human rights abuses, would likely take years to review—calling into question whether the IDF will ever be held accountable."

"[E]ven if we had found a place, and somehow my cousins managed the rent, they couldn't have afforded ... living."

"Israeli ministers appeared more concerned about finding who leaked the video [of guards raping a Palestinian prisoner] rather than the heinous contents ... The incident was just one of countless instances of torture and abuses commmitted by Israeli guards against Palestinians, reports have found."

"Before captivity, I'd often read in books that in prison the main thing is to remain human. Back then, those were just words to me ... When I found myself imprisoned, I understood what humanity really meant."

"[P]eople are there searching for work, and ... they're not coming home."

"After an ICE agent takes a photo of a subject ... the [Mobile Fortify] tool queries a wide range of CBP and other databases, including CBP's Traveler Verification Service. For that system CBP takes photos of peoples' faces when they enter the U.S."

"DHS personnel have denied access to counsel, legislators, and journalists so that the harsh and deteriorating conditions at the [Broadview ICE] facility can be shielded from public view ... These conditions are unconstitutional and threaten to coerce people into sacrificing their rights."

"US military interventions of the 20th century brought dictatorships, disappearances, and decades of trauma to [Latin America]. We know the terrible cost ... We cannot—we will not—allow history to repeat itself."

"Staff often let incarcerated people out of their cells late and lock them in early, and lock them in for longer stretches in the middle of the day ... Sometimes guards will call in sick and induce a longer lockdown."

"The RSF's claims that it is solely targeting 'terrorists' ... replicate a familiar playbook[.]"

"The murderous and racist character of the Rio [de Janeiro] police ... is part of a larger picture of police repression across [Brazil]. Last year, Brazilian police murdered 6,243 people — almost five times more than the notoriously racist U.S. police, who took at least 1,365 lives in 2024."

"Amnesty International has documented a concerning pattern of the misuse of counter-terrorism laws to crackdown on peaceful dissent and a growing trend of targeting lawyers representing activists and political opposition groups."

"If one of the issues that we're trying to address is public urination ... maybe we actually should look at investing in the creation of more public restrooms that are accessible."

"There is no ceasefire ... The occupation targets whoever it wants."

"The streets we once knew no longer exist ... Neighborhoods have turned into piles of debris. We came back to the unknown. Many people can't even find where their homes used to be."

"Each child bears the scars of a stolen childhood on their bodies and in their hearts. Their interrupted dreams, suspended games, and fragments of broken innocence bear witness to the horror they have endured ... Each scar tells a story, each smile regained is an act of resistance against oblivion."

"[C]ompar[e] the government's attitude to those protesting a genocide to those carrying it out."

"RSF militants, who are fighting against Sudan's government, [reportedly] killed more than 1,500 people over just three days after capturing the city ... Among those killed, according to the [WHO], are more than 460 people systematically slaughtered at el-Fasher's Saudi Maternity Hospital."

"A free country does not dispatch police ... to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts."

"[W]hen so many cities in the U.S. are facing crises of homelessness, of food insecurity, of rising rent ... how are police departments justifying these hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of purchases?"

"It would ... create profound risks of radioactive fallout globally. Even if such nuclear tests are conducted underground, this poses a risk in terms of the possible release and venting of radioactive materials, as well as the potential leakage into groundwater."

"Dawson Farley, [Sean] Grayson's partner, said ... Grayson urg[ed] him not to 'waste it' — his medical equipment — on [Sonya] Massey as she bled on her kitchen's floor."

"It is important not to rely solely on details reported by the corrections department. ... [A]sk follow-up questions that require prison officials to show the proof behind their assumptions, such as: How do you know that? Why do you think that? What document or record shows that?"

"In some places, corrections officials ... keep the [decedent's] property until a court officially names someone to manage it or the family submits the right paperwork, a process that can drag on for weeks, or even months. And if some beloved memento goes missing, families have little recourse."

"The system is about as broken as it gets."

"[T]he underlying problem in the child-welfare system is decision-makers' bias against poor parents, especially incarcerated mothers of color. The just thing to do as a society ... would be to better support these families with affordable housing, food assistance, drug treatment and childcare."