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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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With Sons in Solitary, Mothers Fight for Their Freedom—and Their Lives

January 6, 2016April 12, 2016 Victoria Law
Mothers and Solitary

Jacob Spivey has bipolar two disorder. Before his incarceration, explained his mother Denise Harrelson, every six months he would become depressed and have suicidal thoughts. In 2014, he entered the North Carolina prison system, but spent most of that first year in the state’s Central Prison, which has a 216-bed mental health facility. In 2015, […]