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Crime and Justice News
Sep 12, 20232 min read
NYC Correction Department Spends $150K On Sniper Rifles, Accessories
New York City’s Department of Correction has made its third purchase of sniper rifles and accessories in less than a year – this time...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 8, 20232 min read
MN Inmates 'Free Writers' Program Yields Justice System Insights
Before handing pencil and paper to a group of inmates who attended a writing workshop in jail, Nate Johnson said he is a recovering...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 8, 20232 min read
Sixth Inmate Dead In Six Weeks At Atlanta's Fulton County Jail
Another inmate at Atlanta's Fulton County Jail is dead, marking the sixth inmate death in six weeks, and the tenth this year at the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 23, 20231 min read
NY Jail Settlement Could Deal Out $10 Million In Compensation
A proposed settlement for people in a Brooklyn, N.Y.,jail who had no electricity or heat for a week during a 2019 polar vortex could...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 21, 20231 min read
NYC Plans World's Tallest Jail in Chinatown, Disrupting Local Culture
For nearly two centuries, New York City’s Chinatown has been home to a quintessentially American story: immigrant workers and their...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Poor Conditions In GA Jail Where Trump Defendants Face Booking
Former president Trump and his 18 co-defendants in a racketeering case have until next Friday to surrender in Atlanta and be booked at...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 11, 20231 min read
NJ Supreme Court Upholds $1.5M Verdict For Suicide In County Jail
The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld a $1.5 million verdict after Ocean County Jail officials tried to dodge a lawsuit from the widow of a...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 10, 20232 min read
NYC Jail Board Majority Seeks Outside Authority To Run Facilities
In an effort to reassert its authority, a New York City agency responsible for protecting the rights of prisoners is suing the Department...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 28, 20232 min read
Mississippi Jails Mentally Ill Without Charges
A new survey of counties and an analysis of jail dockets in Mississippi found that people going through the civil commitment process for...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 27, 20232 min read
In-Person Polling Location Active At Dallas County Jail
Officials approved an in-person polling location at the Dallas County Jail last spring after only allowing absentee ballots that could be...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 27, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
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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