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 292 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jul 162 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jul 112 min read
Reducing Jail Populations Did Not Increase Crime, Study Finds
There is no correlation between criminal justice reforms and post-COVID-19-era spikes in violent crime, concludes the John D. and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 111 min read
TN Sheriff Pleads Not Guilty Of Benefitting From Jail Inmate Work
A Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 102 min read
Incarcerated Artists In D.C. Jail Have Songs Professionally Recorded
In June, several incarcerated artists gathered in the jail chapel to hear the songs they wrote like never before: played from speakers,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 92 min read
Short-Staffed Philadelphia Jails Report 25 Drug Deaths Since 2018
Kelly Ann Crawford had bipolar disorder and was addicted to fentanyl and Xanax. She’d tried drug treatment several times, but she always...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 92 min read
650 In Maine Jails Lack Court-Appointed Attorneys
In Caribou, Maine last month Judge Stephen Nelson faced a constitutional dilemma. Prosecutors had charged a defendant with aggravated...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 122 min read
Texas Man's Family Seeks Federal Probe After Jail Death
The family of a Texas man who died following an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the inmate’s back, called...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 121 min read
Bureau Of Justice Statistics Releases Preliminary 2023 Jail Data
The Bureau of Justice Statistics released preliminary data on Tuesday regarding number, demographic, and conviction status of people held...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 42 min read
Inmates In Nearby Ohio Jails Face Differing Treatment Practices
The distance between life and death for people arrested and sent to jail in Ohio can depend on the location and county. Ohio has 181...
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Crime and Justice News
May 242 min read
Death Toll Rises At Georgia Clayton County Jail
On May 15, a detainee in Georgia's Clayton County Jail passed away while in custody, marking the sixth death in 2024 at the facility,...
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Crime and Justice News
May 242 min read
Woman Dies in Harford County Jail During Detox; Sheriff Silent
This month, a woman grappling with fentanyl addiction passed away at the Harford County Detention Center. She had been deemed a "danger...
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Crime and Justice News
May 152 min read
Arkansas Lawmakers Question Sheriff On Netflix Documentary Shot In Jail
Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday raised questions about a sheriff’s decision to allow a Netflix documentary series to be filmed at the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 142 min read
Family Visits Ended After Tech Firm Struck Video Deal With Jails
Last fall, the children in Flint, Mich., were blocked from seeing their parents at the Genesee County Jail. In 2012, a company called...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 261 min read
Jail in Louisiana Refuses to Take the 17-Year-Olds Now Deemed Adults
The state of Louisiana recently lowered the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 17. Under that new state law, 17-year-olds can no...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 232 min read
CA Jail Inmates Not Entitled To Salaries, State High Court Rules
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that county jail inmates are not entitled to be paid minimum wage and overtime or...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 191 min read
Years of Jail-Reduction Reforms Yield Little: Prison Policy Initiative
In a followup to a 2017 state-by-state study of local jail populations, the Prison Policy Initiative found that little has changed after...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 91 min read
Young Inmates Say NYC Jails Not Providing Required Education
New York City inmates claim that city jails are violating an eight-year-old court order mandating access to education for incarcerated...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 91 min read
Family Says Feliciano's Brain Damage Left Him 'Like a Baby'
Last week, the city of New York announced that it would pay Nicholas Feliciano’s family a record-breaking $28.7 million settlement for...
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