prison
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Inmates at New York prison without power for days during polar vortex
Detention centers are on the front lines of climate change, making prisoners especially vulnerable.
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ACLU is suing West Virginia for denying water to prisoners during the Elk River chemical spill
ACLU said the treatment amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Brazilian inmates can reduce their sentence by providing human-powered electricity
Brazil is pioneering a new sort of jailhouse workout, in which inmates ride bikes instead of pumping iron. The bikes, unlike weightlifting or prison-yard basketball, help power a nearby town.
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In Washington, prison inmates raise bees, frogs, and butterflies
When you think “prison,” you don’t usually think “idyllic bower of nature’s most rare and beautiful specimens.” But at the Washington State Department of Corrections, inmates can skip the license-plate making and spend their days cultivating endangered local animals, insects, and plants. Participants in the Sustainable Prisons Project raise Oregon spotted frogs, Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies, […]
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Tim DeChristopher put in ‘isolated confinement’
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, still serving his sentence for disrupting a government auction of oil leases, has been transferred to isolated confinement. He’s been there since March 9.