Opinion

My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’

I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all ...
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Inside Oregon’s oldest prison: 114-degree cells and $13M annual repairs

On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...