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How to Investigate Prison Staffing Trends in Your State

Our toolkit helps you report on how the widespread, long-term trend of declining prison staff affects both safety behind bars and state budgets.

Investigate This • 03.05.2025

How a Guards’ Strike Plunged New York Prisons Into Turmoil and Why the Timing Is Curious

Correctional officers complain of unsafe conditions, but critics say the protests were meant to deflect attention from ‘a moment of reckoning.’

Closing Argument • 02.22.2025

While Youth Detention Numbers Rise, States Begin to Roll Back Reforms

Los Angeles County is one of many places that have struggled to maintain safe conditions for youth and seen reform efforts stall or be abandoned.

Closing Argument • 12.21.2024

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