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Jan. 6ers and Marjorie Taylor Greene Drive Attention to the D.C. Jail. Real Reform Remains Elusive.
The Bureau of Prisons Proposes to Raid Incarcerated People’s Bank Accounts
- The American Prospect
Protesters Fight to Sue the Government over Lafayette Square Attack
- The Washington Post
Republicans Demand Access To D.C. Jail To Visit Jan. 6 Detainees And Review Conditions
- DCist
Yale Alumna Testifies about “Inhumane” Conditions of D.C. Central Cell Block
- Yale Daily News
D.C. Police Officers Convicted in Karon Hylton-Brown’s Death Ask Judge to Throw Out Jury’s Verdict, Grant a New Trial
- Washington City Paper
One of the Deadliest Federal Prison Units Is Closing
- NPR
After Several Deaths, Feds to Close Violent Prison Unit in Illinois
- The Marshall Project
What Are Some Common Problems With Rural Jails In America?
- Rebellion Research
Colie Levar Long: Listen to a Former Prisoner — Longer Sentences Don’t Work
- The DC Line
“You must find a way to get in the way and make good trouble.”
Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Representative and Civil Rights Leader

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