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D.C. Jail: From Hellhole to Hotspot
Accounts from Inside Washington, D.C.'s Jail During COVID-19 Reveal a Perfect Storm of Squalor and Neglect

By Valerie Kiebala, James Ridgeway, and Lawrence Ukenye | December 30, 2020

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California death row

In California Death Row's "Adjustment Center," Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement

April 13, 2016April 18, 2016 Alyssa Stryker
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“When we were sentenced to death,” wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, “we weren’t sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept in solitary dungeons until the day of our executions. Never once did the judge say that was to be part of our sentence.” He was speaking about […]