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Jessica Schulberg
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senior reporter at HuffPost covering prisons/jails/courts • HuffPost Union + WGAE Councilmember
Tremane’s supporters celebrating outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after receiving the news
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Part of Tremane's clemency presentation included quotes from the victim's mother, Barbara Wipf, to me, stating her opposition to the execution
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Black was also intellectually disabled, meaning he should not have been eligible for execution
August 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
utterly barbaric — Byron Black's lawyers unsuccessfully fought in court for his defibrillator to be disabled before his execution, arguing it could cause painful shocks as he died. Witnesses to the execution say he groaned in pain and said, "It's hurting so bad." www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
August 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
At the end of a very intense interview, we asked Jerce if there was anything else he wanted our readers to know. He smiled and said, "Just that even with everything I’ve gone through, I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid.”
August 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Jerce was accused of being a gang member based on a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock-and-roll" hand gesture he made on social media years ago.

For this, he was disappeared from the US and sent to one of the most infamous prisons in the world, where he endured "countless" beatings
August 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
July 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
July 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the moment Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos reunited with his family after 125 days in CECOT, shared with me and
@mattshuham.bsky.social by his mom, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco
July 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
accounts from some of the kids who are being forcibly separated from their loved ones:
May 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
another LAPD officer, that works with Protector, Royce Burroughs, is a named defendant in an ongoing lawsuit brought by a woman who claims Burroughs was part of a SWAT team that blew up her apartment wall/door and pointed guns at her while responding to a hostage situation in the building
March 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
James Zourek, an LAPD veteran hired by Protector and featured prominently in their promotional materials, scoffed at the idea that chokeholds could be considered a lethal use of force
March 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The state's case against Wood relied heavily on testimony from two jailhouse informants who claimed Wood confessed to them. A man named George Hall who was in jail with Wood and the informants at the time, recently came forward and said the informants' testimony was fabricated
March 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
PREA requires prison officials to conduct individualized housing assessments for trans people, factoring in their own beliefs about their safety. As of last week, BOP's website linked to a 2022 policy echoing that language web.archive.org/web/20250122...
This is what the BOP website says now
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
the federal Bureau of Prisons no longer lists how many transgender men and women are in its custody. As of Jan. 25, it was less than 1% web.archive.org/web/20250127...
www.bop.gov/about/statis...
January 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
In a separate lawsuit filed today in DC, three trans women sued to block BOP from transferring them to men's facilities. "This could mean life of death and she has not received a death penalty as her sentence," one of the plaintiff's mom/sister wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Today Rev. Risher urged Biden to "finish the job" and commute the remaining three men on federal death row + those on military death row. "Politics has gotten in the way of mercy."
December 23, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Rev. Sharon Risher, whose mother and two cousins were killed in the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting, has been one of the most outspoken advocates for commuting all of federal death row — here's how she explained her thinking to me a few weeks ago www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
December 23, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Amber, who spent 17 days on hunger strike and has opted to live in solitary confinement rather than general population in the men's prison, described how WA's Dept of Corrections is forcing her to choose between treating her gender dysphoria and protecting herself from physical/sexual violence
December 17, 2024 at 10:53 PM
love to see my tax dollars at work
October 31, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Jake was represented by three experienced capital public defenders. Tremane was represented by a private appointed attorney who struggled with drug/alcohol addiction, had his law license suspended and admitted to doing a bad job on Tremane's case
October 13, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Oklahoma recently passed a law mandating reduced sentences for survivors of domestic violence who prove their crimes were related to the abuse — the Tulsa County DA's office drafted a form that would require people to waive those rights to get a plea deal www.huffpost.com/entry/tulsa-...
September 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
former Supreme Court Judge Michael Wolff, one of the judges who upheld Dorsey's death sentence on appeal, says they got it wrong and is asking Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) to grant clemency
March 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Ahead of trial, one of Dorsey's lawyers asked another lawyer what she thought of pleading guilty without a deal from prosecutors to take death off the table. She said it was "a really bad idea" that always had "abominable" results
March 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
WA DOC paid Levine between $3-4k a day. Here’s a look at his gender dysphoria training materials:
November 29, 2023 at 7:34 PM