Verkkoin 2016, the vera institute of justice launched the human toll of jail project to humanize the costs of incarceration and uplift true stories about people whose lives. Verkkoat pickaway correctional institution in ohio, which housed about 1,900 inmates, they tried to turn bedsheets into tents to separate themselves; A jail experiment’ documents several weeks within a new prison system implemented by sheriff eric higgins of pulaski county. Verkkowith these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in los angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how. Verkkothroughout american history unspeakable abuse of men and women has been allowed to happen behind prison walls because the public had no access. Verkkoa reuters investigation documents deaths in jails across the u. s. , showing how lax oversight and poor healthcare have put thousands in peril.