• About Us
  • Donate
  • Read
    • Accountability
      • #CitizenSleuth
      • America’s Worst Charities
      • Behind the Smiles
      • Case Cleared
      • Census
      • Contract with Danger
      • COVID-19
      • Criminal Justice
      • Day Care
      • Education
      • First Amendment
      • Guns
      • Hate
      • Health Care
      • Impact
      • Inside the Newsroom
      • Money and Politics
      • National Security
      • Religion
      • Reporting Network
      • Returning Home to Battle
      • Sports
      • State Secrets
      • Surveillance and Privacy
      • The Hate Report
      • The Paradise Papers
      • The Trump Era
      • The Wall
      • Who Owns Silicon Valley?
    • Inequality
      • All Work. No Pay.
      • And Justice for Some
      • Government Workers
      • Housing
      • Human Rights
      • Immigration
      • Insult to Injury
      • Kept Out
      • Kids on the Line
      • Labor
      • Rape in the Fields
      • Rape on the Night Shift
      • Silicon Valley Diversity
      • Subsidized Squalor
      • Techsploitation
      • Trimmigrants
      • Voting
      • Worked Over
      • Workers’ Rights
    • Sustainability
      • America’s Ring of Fire
      • Chasing Energy
      • Climate Change
      • Environment
      • Flood thy Neighbor
      • Food for 9 Billion
      • Food Security
      • Lords of Yesterday
      • Oil and Mining
      • Pesticides
      • The (Un)Scientific Method
      • The Secrets of the Drought
  • Listen
  • Watch
  • Local
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Skip to content
  • Read
    • Accountability
      • #CitizenSleuth
      • America’s Worst Charities
      • Behind the Smiles
      • Case Cleared
      • Census
      • Contract with Danger
      • COVID-19
      • Criminal Justice
      • Day Care
      • Education
      • First Amendment
      • Guns
      • Hate
      • Health Care
      • Impact
      • Inside the Newsroom
      • Money and Politics
      • National Security
      • Religion
      • Reporting Network
      • Returning Home to Battle
      • Sports
      • State Secrets
      • Surveillance and Privacy
      • The Hate Report
      • The Paradise Papers
      • The Trump Era
      • The Wall
      • Who Owns Silicon Valley?
    • Inequality
      • All Work. No Pay.
      • And Justice for Some
      • Government Workers
      • Housing
      • Human Rights
      • Immigration
      • Insult to Injury
      • Kept Out
      • Kids on the Line
      • Labor
      • Rape in the Fields
      • Rape on the Night Shift
      • Silicon Valley Diversity
      • Subsidized Squalor
      • Techsploitation
      • Trimmigrants
      • Voting
      • Worked Over
      • Workers’ Rights
    • Sustainability
      • America’s Ring of Fire
      • Chasing Energy
      • Climate Change
      • Environment
      • Flood thy Neighbor
      • Food for 9 Billion
      • Food Security
      • Lords of Yesterday
      • Oil and Mining
      • Pesticides
      • The (Un)Scientific Method
      • The Secrets of the Drought
  • Listen
  • Watch
  • Local
Reveal

Reveal

from The Center for Investigative Reporting

  • About Us
  • Donate

Prisons

The troubled prison health care system

Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons

Reveal, The Atlantic to present Oklahoma forum on female incarceration

Reveal -- Site Icon by Reveal staff September 14, 2017September 15, 2017

Reveal and The Atlantic will team up for a forum on Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate, the highest in the U.S.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Inequality, Prisons

Budget deal bans new immigrant detention center contracts in California

by Patrick Michels June 16, 2017June 20, 2017

California lawmakers have banned local governments from signing new contracts for holding federal immigration detainees and funded a state inspection program for immigrant detention centers.

Posted inPrisons, The Trump Era

Poor medical care in immigrant detention has deadly results, report says

by Patrick Michels May 8, 2017May 9, 2017

Poor medical care, including underqualified staff and systemic neglect, has contributed to deaths at immigrant detention facilities around the country, according to a new report by two advocacy groups.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons

Sick on the inside: What the Bureau of Prisons knew

by Julia B. Chan and Stan Alcorn August 27, 2016July 1, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice says it will eventually end its use of private prisons. In light of this news, we’re revisiting an hour of Reveal that investigates medical negligence in private prisons for immigrants and the shift in immigration enforcement that gave rise to them in the first place.

Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Prisons

The man inside: Four months as a prison guard

by Julia B. Chan and Cheryl Devall June 25, 2016July 1, 2021

On this episode of Reveal, we take an unprecedented look inside the multibillion-dollar private prison industry.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons

The culture within: Shane Bauer takes us inside a private prison

by Julia B. Chan June 24, 2016June 30, 2021

We sit down with reporter Shane Bauer, who worked as a guard at a Louisiana private prison for four months, to talk about what life is like for people on both sides of the bars.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Health Care, Immigration, Prisons

Private prison operator sued over death at immigrant facility

by Seth Freed Wessler March 15, 2016June 30, 2021

The family of a federal prisoner has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that private prison operators negligently left him in the care of underqualified medical workers who failed to respond properly to a medical emergency.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons

Medical negligence in immigrant prisons

by Julia B. Chan February 6, 2016June 30, 2021

For years, journalists and advocates have raised questions about medical care inside private federal prisons for noncitizens. We tell the story of one medical disaster behind bars: the case of Nestor Garay.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons

Sick on the inside: Behind bars in immigrant-only prisons

by Julia B. Chan and Stan Alcorn February 6, 2016July 1, 2021

This hour of Reveal investigates medical negligence in the private prison system for immigrants. We also expose the shift in criminal justice policy that helped fill up these prisons.

Posted inBorder Patrol, National Security, Prisons

What you need to know about America’s private prison industry

by Heidi Hirvonen February 5, 2016February 6, 2016

Ahead of our upcoming episode of Reveal, we collected some recent reporting and research for background on the rise of privatized prisons in the U.S.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 Older posts
Reveal
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Reveal
P.O. Box 8307
Emeryville, CA 94662
510-809-3160

Reveal is a registered trademark of The Center for Investigative Reporting.

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Pitching Reveal
  • Republish Reveal’s Content
  • Donate
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Corrections
  • Reveal on Apple Podcasts
  • Reveal Episode Archive
  • Where to Hear Reveal
  • Audio RSS
  • RSS
  • Newsletter
  • Inside the Newsroom
  • Press Releases
  • Brand Assets
© 2023 The Center for Investigative Reporting. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic