The Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., where Eva Cardoza spent 14 months. Mark Bonifacio/NY Daily News via Getty Images hide caption
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Most Prisoners Can't Vote, But They're Still Counted In Voting Districts
Prisoners pass through a courtyard at Waupun Correctional Institution. Officials in some prison towns have come up with creative ways to avoid forming voting districts made up primarily of prisoners. But in many others, political lines are drawn around prisons in a way that critics deride as "prison gerrymandering." Lauren Justice for NPR hide caption
'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts
The planned demonstrations are in response to a riot that resulted in seven deaths in April at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Nearly 90 former inmates are buried here on the grounds of the North Central Correctional Institution at Gardner. Before inmates, the state buried patients housed at what once was the Gardner State Colony for the "mentally disturbed." Meredith Nierman/WGBH hide caption
Tempering The Cost Of Aging, Dying In Prison With The Demands Of Justice
Hua Qu, the wife of Chinese-American Xiyue Wang, poses with a portrait of her family in Princeton, N.J., on May 9. Families of Americans detained in Iran are hoping President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal will not make it harder to get their love ones freed. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Members of the Pathfinders 5th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, go for a run at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 2013. The Census Bureau says it will count deployed service members as residents of their home bases or ports for the 2020 census. Mark Zaleski/AP hide caption
2020 Census To Count Deployed Troops At Home Bases, Prisoners At Facilities
Artist and flipbooked.com founder Liza Tudor thumbs through "1st Steps," a flipbook of Nicole Garrens' son Zander's first steps. Tudor sent the flipbook to Garrens' husband, Roy, who's currently incarcerated in Texas. Noel Black for NPR hide caption
President Obama arrives at the White House on Monday, after a trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Obama wrote an op-ed in Monday's Washington Post announcing new limits on the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Ali Rezaian, brother of Washington Post Tehran Bureau Chief Jason Rezaian (shown in picture frame), talks about his brother's imprisonment in Iran while testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on June 2, 2015. Iranian media outlets are reporting that Rezaian has been released. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez shout "Freedom for Leopoldo" outside a court in Caracas in September. Lopez, Venezuela's best known political prisoner, was arrested and sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison after giving a speech at a demonstration last year. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption
Winning Big, Venezuela's Opposition Now Plans Push For Prisoner Release
President Obama is the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. Kevin Lamarque/Landov hide caption
A cell block at the now-closed Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, a facility notorious for photos released in 2004 showing U.S. soldiers torturing and humiliating inmates. Karim Kadim/AP hide caption
Known by the nickname "Wall Street," Curtis Carroll teaches financial literacy at the San Quentin Prison, helping inmates prepare for life after incarceration. Carroll, however, is serving a life sentence. Courtesy of The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation hide caption
Investment Guru Teaches Financial Literacy While Serving Life Sentence
Latandra Ellington, 36, was serving time for tax fraud at Lowell Correctional Institution when she died. Florida Department of Corrections hide caption
Record Number Of Inmate Deaths Has Florida Prisons On The Defensive
A Los Angeles County Department of Public Health worker shows condoms for weekly distribution to inmates in the Men's Central Jail. George Lavender hide caption
California Prisons Aim To Keep Sex Between Inmates Safe, If Illegal
The Lafayette Parish Correctional Center in downtown Lafayette, La. By most counts, Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the country, but sentencing reformers have loosened some of the state's mandatory minimum sentences and made parole slightly easier to get. Denny Culbert for NPR hide caption