Jacksonville’s Jail Death Rate Triples After Privatized Healthcare
At least a dozen people have said they didn’t get their prescriptions while jailed between December and June at Duval County Jail, the...
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Jul 26, 20232 min read
L.A. County Sets Deadline to Make Jail Phones Free
After two years of nudges to prod the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to stop charging jail inmates and their families for phone...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 26, 20232 min read
Rikers Showdown Sparked by Shift in Investigations' Transparency
Leading up to last week's move by the Manhattan U.S. attorney to force New York City's jails into federal receivership, the city's jails...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 25, 20232 min read
Murder Sheds Light on L.A. County Jail's Vast Black Market
The boss of one of the most intricate and lucrative black market businesses in Los Angeles County, the jails themselves, was stabbed to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 19, 20232 min read
What a Federal Receivership for NYC Jails Would Mean
It didn't take long for the call by the Manhattan U.S. attorney for a federal takeover of New York City's jails to move into the realm of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 18, 20231 min read
Manhattan Top Federal Prosecutor Requests Takeover of NYC Jails
Damian Williams, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, is asking that an outside authority take control of New York City’s jails, including...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20232 min read
Fulton County Jail to be Investigated for Unsafe Conditions
A federal civil rights investigation has been launched by the Justice Department into Georgia's Fulton County Jail, described by the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Federal Takeover Of NYC Rikers Island Jail May Be Imminent
A federal takeover of the Rikers Island jail complex could be imminent, as a court-appointed monitor is asking a judge to bring contempt...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 29, 20232 min read
NYC Correction Department Buying $90K In Submachine Guns
The New York City Department of Correction, which this month eliminated $17 million in job training and social services for detainees due...
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By Heaven LaMartz
Jun 29, 20233 min read
A Call for Improving Conditions, Treatment For Women Behind Bars
Despite a declining total of women's arrests in the U.S., there was an increase in the female jail population between 2020 and 2021. Of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 23, 20231 min read
No Answers On Epstein Death Four Years After DOJ Probe Started
Four years after the death of Jeffrey Epstein triggered a Justice Department investigation, there are no definitive answers about how...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 22, 20231 min read
Texas Will Collect Data on Mental Health Care in Jails
A new law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will require the state to collect data on how often jail inmates are denied mental health...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 19, 20232 min read
'Extraordinary' Agreement To Improve L.A. County Jails
Los Angeles County and the American Civil Liberties Union reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit that alleged “barbaric” conditions in...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 14, 20231 min read
Federal Judge Again Considering Takeover of NYC's Rikers Island Jail
A federal judge is again considering taking over New York City’s Rikers Island jail system, the Associated Press reports. U.S. District...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 14, 20232 min read
Investigators Probe Deaths In W. Va. Jail, One Of Nation's Deadliest
Built on a mountaintop in West Virginia, the Southern Regional Jail was one of the deadliest jails in the U.S. last year on a per capita...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 9, 20232 min read
Federal Monitor Faults Rikers Island Jails Chief For Violence, Secrecy
Acting New York City correction commissioner Louis Molina has been criticized by the federal monitor overseeing the Rikers Island jail...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Judge Rules Reports On San Diego Jail Conditions Should Be Public
A San Diego federal judge ruled that reports about the conditions of jails and prisoners in San Diego County that the county government...
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Crime and Justice News
May 25, 20232 min read
L.A. County Under Fire on Two Fronts to Clean Up Jails
Los Angeles County officials have two months to move about 300 youths out of two troubled juvenile halls after state regulators ordered...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min read
Georgia Jail Death Called Homicide
Before dying of complications stemming from severe neglect, Lashawn Thompson had been living in conditions at the Fulton County, Ga.,...
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Crime and Justice News
May 1, 20232 min read
$7M Settlement After Inmate Dies In Texas Jail Run By Private Firm
During a 2019 visit to the Texas jail where Holly Barlow-Austin was in pretrial detention, her husband, Michael, noticed she was...
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