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Amid ‘Catastrophic’ Shortage, Psychologists Flee Federal Prisons in Droves

With fewer and fewer employees to run the prisons, psychologists were repeatedly forced to act as guards.

News • 01.26.2026

It’s Hard to Stay Motivated When You’re Facing ‘Death by Incarceration’

LaMarr W. Knox on stalled prison reform measures: “In New York prisons, hope is nonexistent because so many of us are loaded up with long sentences.”

Life Inside • 01.16.2026

Who’s in Ohio’s Psychiatric Hospitals, How Did They Get There and When Do They Get Out?

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

Cleveland • 01.07.2026

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