Aerial view of Stafford Creek Correctional Center in Aberdeen, Wash., where Don Snook is currently incarcerated. (Photo illustration by Alex Ip/The Xylom. Source: Google Earth)
Public Health
‘We Are Such a Punitive Country’: America’s ‘Death by Incarceration’ Machine
America’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind decades-long sentences begins to unravel.
