“Your job is to stay out of trouble, live, and fight for your life. There are no saviours. Get to the law library and learn.” - Tariq MaQbool quoting an older prisoner.
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Three times a year, 30 people at the Missouri prison where Jeshua Noel is incarcerated are chosen for what's known as a family restoration visit — a chance to wear your own clothes, eat food brought in by loved ones, and take a walk or play games with them. Only those who've met certain […]
Since 2017, it’s been a requirement of Texas law that an outside authority investigate all jail deaths. That’s not happening in Tarrant County, where at least 70 people have died in jail custody since the current sheriff, Bill Waybourn, took office eight years ago. Waybourn — a Republican — was […]
When she was 15, April Barber Scales was convinced by the man, twice her age, who had impregnated her, to set her grandparents’ house on fire. Her grandparents died, and Barber Scales received two consecutive life sentences without parole. In 2022, she had been in prison for 31 years when under […]
