Natalie Robbins

'Major gap in our system': Arizona lacks secure facilities for people with serious mental illness Since 2019, Arizona lawmakers have tried to create secure behavioral health residential facilities to fill gaps in the mental health system. SBHRFs would provide secure care for people with serious me...

An Arizona state law seeks to put the seriously mentally ill in locked care facilities. Public health advocates say it could help people stuck cycling between jail, the street, and short-term care, but others say it's a violation of patients' civil rights.
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When Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison A dispatch from SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, which was briefly part of the biggest crime story in the nation.

'I've never been so excited': Inmate-led program preserves endangered languages behind Az bars Thomas Steres, an inmate in Arizona, founded the Linguistic Legacies Initiative to teach endangered languages such as Welsh, Nahuatl and Guosa while incarcerated in a state prison in Buckeye, Ariz.

A group of nine men at ASPC-Lewis—an Arizona prison—study endangered and vulnerable languages. Together, they are independently learning Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, Guosa, and Interslavic.