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James Ridgeway, 1936–2021

By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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Bob Ortega

Suicides in Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons

June 4, 2012November 1, 2015 Jean Casella and James Ridgeway
arizona state

Bob Ortega of the Arizona Republic has begun a new series on the high rate of inmate deaths in Arizona’s state prison system–a phenomenon he refers to as the state’s “other death row”: The other death row, the unofficial one, reaches into every prison in Arizona’s sprawling correctional system. No judge or jury condemned anyone in this group […]