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News Probe Finds Lack Of Scrutiny In CA County Jails With 19 Suicides
Some 19 detainees in jails of Riverside County, Calif. died in 2022. That total, the highest the department had reported in at least...
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Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Drugs, Weapons Seized in Sweep Of Jail Where 'Diddy' Combs Is Held
Federal authorities seized drugs, homemade weapons and electronic devices during a sweep of the jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being...
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Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Inmate Counts Rise In Jails, Prisons Since Pandemic-Era Slowdown
P andemic-era decarceration has stalled, the Vera Institute of Justice says in a new report. About 1.3 million people are being held in...
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Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Federal Agencies Descend On Troubled NYC Federal Jail
Federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled lockup in New York City where Sean 'Diddy' Combs is being...
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Oct 28, 20241 min read
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NM Jail Officer Accused Of Allowing Attacks On Mentally Ill Inmates
A corrections officer at a New Mexico county jail is accused of orchestrating attacks in the shower on two inmates who suffer from mental...
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Oct 27, 20241 min read
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D.C. Considers Legislation To Expand Rights Of Pregnant Women Behind Bars
The experiences of several women who have given birth at Washington D.C.'s Correctional Treatment Facility has spurred legislation to...
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Oct 23, 20242 min read
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Initiative Shines Light On Jailhouse Lawyers
Their names may not appear on court briefs or judicial decisions, but behind the scenes incarcerated people have played a big role in the...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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Some Florida Jails And Prisons Evacuated Ahead Of Milton, But Many Incarcerated Remained In Storm's Path
Ahead of Hurricane Milton, thousands of inmates were evacuated from jails and prisons in Florida. But many weren’t, despite being in...
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Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Maine Jail Experiment With Addicted Inmates Seems To Work
At the Somerset County jail in rural Maine, prisoners addicted to opioids received a daily pill to keep cravings in check. As soon as...
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Sep 10, 20242 min read
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Critics Accuse Jail Medical Provider NaphCare Of Mistreating Inmates
Jails around the U.S. often hire private health care firms, funded by taxpayers, to treat inmates. NaphCare, a billion-dollar enterprise,...
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Sep 5, 20242 min read
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After Son's Death In LA Jail, TX Mom Seeks Halt To Out-of-State Custody
The Kinner & Stevens Funeral Home in Louisiana wouldn’t open for hours. Sarah Knight sat in the parking lot thinking that the body inside...
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Aug 14, 20242 min read
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NYC Jail Inmates Deny They Refused Thousands Of Health Appointments
New York City Department of Correction staff claimed that sick people held in the jails refused to go to medical appointments when those...
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Aug 9, 20242 min read
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Even Single Day in Jail Causes ‘Immediate, Long-Lasting Harms’
Recent research suggests that the onset of the social and economic harms caused by pretrial detention is earlier than previously...
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Aug 8, 20242 min read
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Former Mississippi Deputy Given One Day In Prison For Procuring Sexual Favors From Jailed Woman
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy will spend one day in prison after a federal judge said Tuesday that a jailed woman, who alleges...
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Aug 7, 20242 min read
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Investigation Finds 'Astronomical' Death Rate In Maricopa County Jails
An investigation conducted by The Arizona Republic revealed that the jail system in Maricopa County has one of the nation's highest...
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Aug 7, 20242 min read
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'The Pendulum Has Swung' -- L.A. County Reconsiders Jail Reform
In 2019, justice reformers celebrated when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors scrapped a controversial $1.7-billion plan to...
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Aug 5, 20242 min read
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Alabama Jailer Guilty in Prisoner’s Freezing Death
A former Alabama jail officer pleaded guilty in a case involving a mentally ill man who succumbed to hypothermia after spending two weeks...
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Aug 2, 20242 min read
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How A Private Jail Health Care Company Endangers Patients In Custody
Local governments across the country have turned to private companies to provide medical and mental health care in their jails, as a way...
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Jul 31, 20242 min read
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In Maryland, Mentally Ill Wait In Jail Despite Court-Ordered Psychiatric Treatment
People with severe mental illness, accused of crimes in Maryland but deemed too sick by the courts to participate in their cases and who...
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Jul 29, 20242 min read
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Judge Says Illinois JaIl's Media, Mail Policies Violate Inmate Rights
Inmates at the Will County, Ill., Adult Detention Facility won a partial legal victory Monday, with a federal judge ruling that several...
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Jul 16, 20242 min read
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