Covering the mass incarceration system, Part 1
AP Photo/David Goldman, file
Reporting on the incarceration system sheds light on opaque and powerful institutions.
Journalists who report on the incarceration system from inside and out provide essential transparency, oversight, and accountability for America’s secretive carceral institutions.
Too often, these centers operate beyond the public eye. Corrections agencies closely guard any information about incarcerated people and facilities and restrict public access to them. We push back on efforts to block reporting on carceral institutions and support the First Amendment rights of journalists covering them.
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