Jails “need to have gender-responsive programs and staff and training and facilities,” Stroop said. Instead, “women often get treated as a bolt-on” in jails “designed for men.” Jailers have been slow ...
According to a federal database of in-custody deaths obtained by The Marshall Project, nearly 4,000 people died in jails over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023. In our series Undercounted, Here ...
A life-threatening condition called sepsis kills hundreds of people in American jails and prisons each year, a USA TODAY investigation has found, but inmates with a history of drug use are at ...
On the Thursday, November 20, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: A USA TODAY exclusive investigation uncovered roughly 49,000 deaths in jails and prisons over eight years, including at least 1,800 ...