Inmates are being denied the opportunity to properly grieve and lay their loved ones to rest due to the DOC’s rules and restrictions, causing mental health issues.
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Are MN prisons receptive to inmate complaints?
Activists and advocates question the Department of Corrections’ internal grievance process, which they say is ineffective and punishes those incarcerated for speaking up.
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Is the Dept. of Corrections knowingly inflicting pain upon prisoners?
Minnesota prisoners denied medication: Cruel and unusual punishment?
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Work release is underutilized in MN prisons
For each person in work release, taxpayers save up to $16,086 a year.
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Blanket labels like ‘violent offender’ are misleading
People experience personal transformation when others treat them as people-in-process, humans full of potential that are not judged for the one bad thing they have done in life.
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Thousands of MN prisoners remain unvaccinated
Prisons are notoriously dangerous places during a viral outbreak, and incarcerated people have been left at the mercy of those at the helm of correctional facilities across the country.
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The DOC’s mission on paper is something else entirely in practice
A monthly column in which various contributors from both sides of prison walls explore common ground for effecting change. Just days after the U.S. Senate voted on a criminal justice reform bill that that is giving a much-needed push to de-incarcerate this nation’s prisons and jails, I find myself holding out hope on what it […]