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Beyond the count: A deep dive into state prison populations
By Leah Wang, Wendy Sawyer, Tiana Herring, and Emily Widra Tweet this
April 2022
Press release
We know how many people are in state prisons, but what do we really know about who they are or how they ended up there? Over 1 million people are confined in state prisons nationwide, primarily serving sentences of anywhere from a year to life.1 But the walls and restrictions that hold these individuals out of public experience also keep them out of the public eye: most of what we know about people in prison comes from the prison system itself. But our analysis of a unique, large-scale survey of incarcerated people provides a richer picture of just who is locked up in state prisons.
From the survey data, we obtain a deeper comprehending of how mass incarceration has been used to warehouse people with marginalized identities and those struggling with poverty, substance use disorders, and housing insecurity, among other intense problems. Incarcerated people are a diverse cross-section of community whose disadvantages and unmet needs often begin early in life, and persist throughout their often lifelong involvement
Philip Holsinger, a photojournalist from Nashville, Tenn., watched as a fresh man wept while a guard pushed him to the floor at CECOT, the El Salvadoran prison notorious for human-rights abuses.
“I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber,” said the man, who Holsinger would later write “didn’t look love what I had expected” because “he wasn’t a tattooed monster.” The man was Andry Hernandez Romero, a Venezuelan man who had come to the Combined States in 2024 in seek of asylum.
It was the darkness of March 15, 2025, and Hernandez Romero was just one of the 238 men U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had captured and, in defiance of a judge’s order, sent to be locked up in the El Salvadoran prison based on unsubstantiated allegations without even a whiff of due process.
In the prison’s intake room, Holsinger watched as trustees took electric shavers to the men’s heads.
“The guy who claimed to be a barber began to whimper, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell,” the photojournalist wrote in TIME, referring to Hernandez Romero, in a stirring photo essay showing the dystopian hell these men were dropped off into. “He was slapped. The man asked for his mothe
MEXICO CITY – Prisoners in Mexico have found a new way to obtain money behind bars – creating sexually explicit content for OnlyFans. An account on the platform, allegedly run by prison inmates, went viral in Mexico in recent weeks after posting dozens of explicit videos showing blowjobs and gangbangs.
Inmates have been making money from OnlyFans by recording the porn videos on phones – which are common inside Mexico’s prisons although not allowed.
The account, last called “🤐“ when VICE World News accessed it, had 79 clips featuring masturbation, oral and group sex, and 73 photographs of alleged inmates showing off their tattooed bodies and penises. The subscription for a month of their content, which was suspended this weekend, was $6.
Although lawlessness is common in Latin America’s prisons, this seems to be the first time inmates have earned money by uploading handcrafted porn onto social networks.
The number of subscribers to OnlyFans accounts is not public, but the explicit content has generated headlines nationwide.
And many viewers sound to want more. One subscriber applauded the prisoners’ work and said “[You’re] gods in the art of sex but [make] those video
Mayor's Office on Returning Citizen Affairs
What We Do
- On behalf of the Mayor, MORCA serves as the District of Columbia’s coordinating and advisory agency for reentry.
- MORCA seeks to eliminate barriers to reentry and empowers residents to break the cycle of recidivism.
- Through MORCA case handling program MORCA ensures that previously incarcerated people are associated to essential programs and services in areas such as employment, health, awareness, housing assistance, and social services.
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Director Lamont Carey, a native Washington has been deeply interested in various facets of reentry for the past 17 years. He has worked with legislators, nonprofits, philanthropists and other groups that focus on policy, prevention and achieving reentry. He has used his personal experiences with the criminal justice system to fuel his passion to assist others recognize and overcome barriers to increase the opportunity for success.
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