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This Black August, Americans will study, meditate, fast, exercise – and read – for Black liberation
By Adria R Walker

Organizations across the country traditionally use the month as a means of activation for local communities

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/23/black-august-study-meditate-read

#BlackUSculture #History #Race #USprisons #USpolicing #Activism #Culture #Books #USnews #TheGuardian #AdriaRWalker

The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor
By Lex McMenamin

Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/san-francisco-trans-landmark-ice

#Transgender #USprisons #SanFrancisco #Society #WestCoast #California #USnews #TheGuardian #LexMcMenamin

The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/san-francisco-trans-landmark-ice #Transgender #UsPrisons #SanFrancisco #Society #WestCoast #California #UsNews

AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/13/aoc-mamdani-defund-police-prisons #UsPolicing #UsPrisons #UsPolitics #Race #AlexandriaOcasiocortez #UsNews

Unmasked: the doctor who helps put prisoners to death
By Ed Pilkington

Dr Mark Fowler assisted in the failed execution of a Tennessee prisoner. Physicians are meant to heal patients - why is he working in the death chamber?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/tennessee-doctor-executions-death-penalty

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Unmasked: the doctor who helps put prisoners to death https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/tennessee-doctor-executions-death-penalty #CapitalPunishment #UsPrisons #Medicine #Ethics #UsNews #Tennessee #UsCrime #CapitalPunishment

ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors
By Johana Bhuiyan

Shift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the device

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/ice-tracks-thousands-of-immigrants-ankle-monitors

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ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/ice-tracks-thousands-of-immigrants-ankle-monitors #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #UsNews #UsPrisons

Imprisoned writer Mumia Abu-Jamal seeks UN intervention after 44 years behind bars
By Ed Pilkington

The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/mumia-abu-jamal-un-jail

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Imprisoned writer Mumia Abu-Jamal seeks UN intervention after 44 years behind bars https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/mumia-abu-jamal-un-jail #UsPrisons #Race #UsNews #UsPolitics #BlackPanther

If Trump really cares about forced labor, he should look at the US – rather than slap more tariffs on the world
By Eduardo Porter

Forced labor is a problem, especially in the US, where prisoners are coerced to work for pennies – or nothing at all

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons

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If Trump really cares about forced labor, he should look at the US – rather than slap more tariffs on the world https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons #TrumpTariffs #ForcedLabour #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #UsPrisons #Tariffs #LawUs #Law #UsPolitics #UsNews #AsiaPacific #Europe #WorldNews

Pressure mounts on Texas to address brutal heat crisis in prison cells https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/texas-crisis-brutal-heat-prison-cells #UsPrisons #Texas #UsNews #UsPolitics

‘Hugging is forbidden’: women jailed for life – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jul/02/sara-bennett-looking-inside-women-jailed-for-life-in-pictures #Photography #ArtAndDesign #Culture #UsPrisons #Women #UsJusticeSystem #UsNews #Society

Locked up in America: new reports hit at costs of incarcerating women https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/incarcerated-women-costs #UsPrisons #UsCrime #TaxAndSpending #Women #Society #UsNews

US supreme court blocks Rastafarian man’s lawsuit over forced head-shaving in prison https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/supreme-court-ruling-rastafarian-man-religious-rights #UsPrisons #UsNews #Louisiana #UsSupremeCourt

‘We want that bond to remain’: the program helping incarcerated fathers see their loved ones https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/california-incarcerated-fathers #California #UsPrisons #Children #UsNews #WestCoast #Society

‘Repression and resistance’: a historian uncovers the history of migrant protests in US detention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/07/us-migration-policy-detention-hunger-strikes #UsImmigration #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #NewJersey #California #UsmexicoBorder #UsPrisons #WestCoast #UsNews

‘The whole of New York is stressed right now’: how Knicks finals fever reached Rikers Island https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/05/rikers-island-nba-finals-new-york-knicks-photos #NewYorkKnicks #NbaFinals #SanAntonioSpurs #UsPrisons #NewYork #VictorWembanyama #Basketball #Nba #Sport #UsSports #ZohranMamdani

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/alabama-prison-birth-lawsuit #Alabama #UsPrisons #UsNews

Betty Broderick, convicted in 1989 killings of ex-husband and his new wife, dies aged 78 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/betty-broderick-convicted-double-murder-ex-husband-wife-dead #California #UsPrisons #UsCrime #WestCoast #UsNews