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Fourth Confirmed Jail Death of 2025 Brings New York City’s Total to 37 Under Mayor Adams

The steady stream of deaths continues as courts deliberate a federal takeover of NYC jails.

A woman held on Rikers Island was found dead in West Facility jail in the early morning hours of March 20. Her death, the second in New York City jails this week, is being investigated as a possible suicide. She is the fourth person to die during their incarceration or immediately following in New York City’s dangerous jails this year, and at le ...

Fourth Confirmed Jail Death of 2025 Brings New York City’s Total to 37 Under Mayor Adams

Sam McCann

Erica Bryant

How to Fight the Mass Deportation Agenda

Erica Bryant

10 Stories from Immigrants Seeking Safety in the United States

Erica Bryant

Presidents and Governors Should Pardon More People in Prison

Erica Bryant

How To Fight for Justice in Your State and Community in 2025

Erica Bryant

Staying Connected When Your Loved One Is in Prison

Erica Bryant

Corrections Staffing Shortages Offer Chance to Rethink Prison

Erica Bryant

“Lockdown” is an Epidemic Plaguing U.S. Prisons

Erica Bryant

About Half a Million People in Jail Have a Legal Right to Vote, But Don’t Get to Cast Ballots

Erica Bryant

California’s New Workplace Heat Standards Don’t Apply to Prisons, Reflecting Harmful Neglect Across the United States

Erica Bryant

The Truth about Immigrants in This Election Is That We Need to Do More to Protect Them

Erica Bryant

Why We Shouldn’t Call Trump a “Criminal”

Erica Bryant

It’s 2024, and Slavery Isn’t Over in the U.S.

Erica Bryant

What Happens When We Support Parents Instead of Sending Them to Prison

Erica Bryant

States’ Dangerous Attempts at Immigration Enforcement Threaten Our Communities

Nicholas Turner

Erica Bryant

The Risk of Deportation: What Happens When You Can’t Find a Lawyer

Erica Bryant

Debunking the Lies Politicians Say About Immigrants

Erica Bryant

“We Need to Listen”

Erica Bryant

Now is the Time to Protect Asylum, Humanitarian Parole, and Due Process

Erica Bryant

No One Should Be Sentenced to Die in Prison

Erica Bryant

Video Visits for Families of People in Jail and Prison Should Be Free

Erica Bryant

Eight Ways You Can Advance Justice Reform in 2024

Erica Bryant

2024 Is the Year to Keep Shrinking Mass Incarceration

Nicholas Turner

Erica Bryant

Why Punishing People in Jail and Prison Isn’t Working

Erica Bryant

The United States Criminalizes People Who Need Health Care and Housing

Erica Bryant

Yes, It’s Legal to Seek Immigration Asylum in the United States

Erica Bryant

Polling Shows Voters Prefer Crime Prevention Over Punishment

Erica Bryant

Cite and Release is Keeping People Out of Jail

Erica Bryant

The Immigration System is Racist; Solutions Exist

Erica Bryant

Justice Reform 101: What to Read, Watch, and Listen To

Erica Bryant

Four Years in Jail Without Trial: A New Public Defender Office Comes to Hays County, Texas

Erica Bryant

Juneteenth Is Incomplete While Slavery Persists in Prisons

Erica Bryant

Arrested While Bringing His Son Gifts—Then Deported

Erica Bryant

Children Suffer When Parents Are Imprisoned

Erica Bryant

Close New York's "Legalized Sweatshops” and End Slavery Once and For All

Erica Bryant

The Fairness to Freedom Act Will Save Lives

Nicholas Turner

Erica Bryant

No Person Is Illegal—the Language We Use for Immigration Matters

Erica Bryant

Fix the Asylum Process to Save Lives

Erica Bryant