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Santa Clara Jail Faces Claims From Family of Inmate Who Died By Suicide
A federal judge determined Wednesday that Santa Clara County Jail must face claims that it is liable for the suicide of an inmate in...
Crime and Justice News
Apr 32 min read
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Suit Filed Over Man's Suffocation Death After Neglect in Colorado Jail
A 69-year-old man slowly suffocated to death in a rural Colorado jail after his ribs were broken in an altercation with a deputy and he...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 281 min read
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Mississippi Sheriff Bought Farm Equipment and Used Laborers from His Jail on Mom’s Chicken Farm
Bryan Bailey, a Mississippi sheriff whose department had been under federal investigation for torturing people, also staffed his mother’s...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 272 min read
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St. Louis Demolishes 'Workhouse' Jail, 'Not Fit For Human Beings'
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and community activists kicked off demolition of the medium-security jail known as the City Workhouse on...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 192 min read
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Sacramento County Pays $3.5M For Death Of Mentally Ill Homeless Man
Sacramento County agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of a mentally ill homeless man who died last year in the booking area of the...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 172 min read
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Family Sues San Diego Jail Over Brutal In-Custody Murder
After pressing a panic button multiple times to try to summon deputies to his cell, a man was tortured and murdered by a fellow inmate in...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 262 min read
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Family Sues San Diego Jail Over Brutal In-Custody Murder
After pressing a panic button multiple times to try to summon deputies to his cell, a man was tortured and murdered by a fellow inmate in...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 262 min read
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How Philadelphia 'Brotherhood' Helps Bail Out Defendants
Unable to post bail, Elijah Peterson, 30, awoke in a Philadelphia jail cell longing to go home. He prayed, “Please, Allah, get me out of...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
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New Data: Unhoused People Tracked at Intake in 20% of Local Jails
Homeless people are most often arrested for property crimes, often trespassing, and more likely to be 55 years and over. But data within...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
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Mentally Ill MO Jail Inmates Wait 14 Months To Get State Hospital Bed
For nearly a year and a half, a woman has been languishing in Missouri's Greene County jail, waiting to be transferred to a state mental...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 282 min read
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Rape, Crime Rampant Within South Carolina Jail, DOJ Investigators Say
Federal investigators delineated this week, in a scathing e 36-page report , how the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center, a large jail in...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 162 min read
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Wyoming Sheriffs Want Help From The State In Housing Mentally Ill
Wyoming sheriffs for years have been frustrated with the amount of time they’re holding inmates in their jails after judges order them...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 152 min read
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ACLU Asks Maine To Free Jail Inmates Until Counsel Is Available
After a judge found Maine guilty of failing to provide defense lawyers to people who can’t afford it, them, American Civil Liberties...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 142 min read
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Atlanta's County Jail Agrees With DOJ To Fix Poor Conditions
The U.S. Justice Department has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 42 min read
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As More Inmates Learn Computer Coding, Can They Get Jobs?
A joint MIT-Georgetown University coding class for inmates is held at Washington, D.C.'s Correctional Treatment Facility, one of two...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 30, 20242 min read
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Health Firm Wellpath, Plagued With Wrongful Death Suits, Is Bankrupt
Dozens of wrongful death, personal injury and medical negligence lawsuits filed by prisoners and their families are being delayed because...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 27, 20242 min read
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California Deputies Missed Red Flags Prior To Detainee Hanging Himself In Cell
Newly released videos and reports provide further evidence that sheriff’s deputies in Riverside County missed signs that a murder suspect...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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Louisiana Looks To Build New Detention Centers, Jails
Local governments in Louisiana have submitted applications to a criminal justice funding commission requesting more than $500 million in...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 17, 20241 min read
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1.2 Million People Are Jailed More Than Once A Year, Survey Finds
About 650,000 inmates sit in local jails around the U.S. each day. A new publication of the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI),...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 3, 20241 min read
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D.C. Jail Inmates Win Debate With Students Over Life Without Parole
Harold Cunningham was imprisoned up more than three decades ago and told he would never be released after committing a string of armed...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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