by Katie Rose Quandt
This article was originally published by Truthout.
Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that exposes the horrifying realities of life inside Alabama’s prisons. Throughout the film, shocking videos from incarcerated …
By Naila Awan and Katie Rose Quandt
On April 26, 2022, President Joe Biden used his executive powers to commute the federal sentences of 75 people — a first step toward addressing his campaign promise to release some individuals “facing unduly long sentences.” While this action is promising …
The miniseries depicting a New York prison escape fails to show what happened to the men left behind.
by Katie Rose Quandt, The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news site
The true story of a 2015 prison break from a New York maximum-security facility has electrified …
by Amanda Aronczyk & Katie Rose Quandt, WNYC Radio
In 2005, Francis Brauner was a quarter of the way through a 20-year prison sentence at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Louisiana, when he had an accident.
Brauner was imprisoned for a rape conviction, which he maintains was …
It’s well known that people of color are vastly overrepresented in U.S. prisons. African-Americans and Latinos constitute 30 percent of the U.S. population and 60 percent of its prisoners. But a new study by University of California-Berkeley researcher Christopher Petrella addresses a fact of equal concern. Once sentenced, people …
