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WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
Autopsies offer the best chance at flagging whether mistreatment contributed to an incarcerated person’s death. But state officials often skip them. st.news/4cCncjO
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Lawsuit alleges widespread child sexual abuse at Everett detention centers:
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WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
Alex Kuhnhausen developed a bacterial infection while in solitary confinement. The repeated failures that followed offer a rare look at how decisions made by prison officials can turn treatable ailments deadly, @block_reported writes -
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The investigation covered incidents from September 2024 to April 2025. A report showed an inmate had not showered in three weeks. king5.com/article/news/local…
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Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office of the Corrections Ombuds.
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Nonprofit Harvest Now donates the seeds to each prison with an understanding that the produce will be donated to local food banks. king5.com/article/news/local…
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More than 50% of people in state prisons are punished at least 1x/year for misconduct, and almost all of them face harsh sanctions like solitary confinement.
Prison discipline is a system of petty tyranny with devastating consequences.
prisonpolicy.org/reports/dis…
ALT Graph titled: Disciplinary write-ups are common and usually involve "minor" violations, but they almost always lead to harsh punishments.
WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
The U.S. prison foodservice industry was worth almost $3.2 billion in 2022. The privatization of the industry has led to massive profits for corporations and government entities at the cost of food quality and the health & safety of incarcerated people. themarshallproject.org/2025/…
Tell your legislators to support SB 5005 which brings back jail standards and oversight.
Deputies tie handcuffed man to rope, drag him across jail cell floor in WA, lawsuit says theolympian.com/news/state/w…
WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
WA prisons sent 100 staffers to Norway. The goal: A humane system (via @seattletimes)
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DEVELOPING: A WA state agency began transferring 43 young men out of an adult prison back to a juvenile detention center on Friday, following a judge's order. st.news/3LRpbSQ
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South Dakota has a corrections commission that's meant to oversee and advise on prison operations, criminal justice issues and the like.
The commission used to do that.
Now it doesn't.
“It’s just gone basically in the toilet," one member said.
southdakotasearchlight.com/2…
WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
We haven’t had hand soap in the communal prison bathroom for a week. They’ve said it’s not their obligation to provide it. We’ve had wave after wave of illness spread through here all summer. Would be nice if they at minimum supported handwashing.
WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
NEW: Our data analysis found that nearly a third of the 5,000 people released from WA prisons in a year were held beyond their release date. The median delay was roughly a month, but some delays stretched well over a year. Reported by: @faruq_kiefer
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Today at 2:30pm EST, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on prison labor in the U.S.
Tune in to the livestream and follow along as we live tweet the hearing! ⬇️ judiciary.senate.gov/committ…
WA Coalition for Prison Reform & Oversight retweeted
Most commissary spending is on food because prison meals are small and notoriously unhealthy.
Lots of this $$ comes from the *families* of incarcerated people.
Put plainly: they're forced to subsidize the prison system.
prisonpolicy.org/reports/com…
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Prisoners work side-by-side with civilians at dangerous jobs from poultry plants to fighting wildfires. But they aren’t considered "employees."
When they’re hurt or killed, they can be denied basic rights and protections guaranteed to other U.S. workers. apnews.com/article/prison-to…
