Jails Across U.S. Seen In 'State of Complete Meltdown'
Jails are seeing overcrowding, violence and abuse proliferate as staffing shortages make problems worse, report The Marshall Project and...
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Oct 28, 20222 min read
Conviction of GA Sheriff Shines Light on Police Use Of Restraint Chairs
After a Georgia sheriff was found guilty Wednesday violating detainees' civil rights by strapping them to chairs for hours as punishment,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 26, 20222 min read
Are Conditions in Houston's Jail Worse Then NYC's Rikers Island?
Years of unconstitutional abuse at New York City’s jail on Rikers Island have generated national outcry and broad agreement that the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 24, 20222 min read
San Diego Jail Will Pilot Health-Monitoring Devices
Facing the highest rates of deaths of any big-city California jail system, the San Diego Sheriff's Department will conduct a pilot...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20222 min read
Inmate Suicides Have Risen Sharply During The Pandemic
Suicides in prisons and jails across the U.S. have risen sharply over the past two years, data collected by the Wall Street Journal show,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 14, 20222 min read
DOJ Says Orange County's Use Of Jail Informants Violated Rights
The U.S. Justice Department found that the systematic use of informants in the Orange County, Ca., jail system violated the civil rights...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20222 min read
Weinstein's Lawyer Complains of 'Almost Medieval' Jail Conditions
Harvey Weinstein’s attorney told the judge at his sexual assault trial that conditions in the holding cell where he’s being kept after...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 27, 20222 min read
NYC Jail Chief Sought Ill Man's Release To Limit Rikers Death Count
After learning that a man held at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex had suffered cardiac arrest and was on the brink of death,...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 15, 20222 min read
Why It's So Hard For Eligible Jail Inmates To Cast Ballots
Each election cycle, thousands of eligible voters are disenfranchised because they sit in a jail cell. Pretrial detainees are presumed...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 13, 20221 min read
D.C. Inmates Take MIT Coding Course, Hope For Good Tech Jobs
Rochell Crowder, after almost four decades of crimes that landed him in and out of jail, has completed a computer science course taught...
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Heaven LaMartz
Sep 9, 20222 min read
'Stepping Up' Cites Gains In Cutting Jailings In Mental Illness, Drug Cases
Since its launch in 2015, an initiative called Stepping Up has worked to reduce the overincarceration of people with mental illnesses and...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 29, 20222 min read
Seattle Jail Suicides at 'Astronomical' Rate
As the King County, Wa., jail population and lengths of jail stays shoot past pre-pandemic levels, the downtown Seattle jail has lost...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 29, 20222 min read
Twin Lawsuits Show Limits of Jail-Reform Litigation
Two years of litigation over the handling of coronavirus controls in the Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Md., jails helped...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 16, 20221 min read
New York Doctor Accused of Sexual Abuse Found Dead in Rikers Jail
A once-prominent neurologist convicted last month of sexually abusing patients killed himself Monday at a New York City jail, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 15, 20222 min read
California Counties Reduce Bail Releases Amid Crime Rise
More than two years after instituting policies to keep more nonviolent offenders out of jail during the pandemic, California’s biggest...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 10, 20221 min read
MN County Pays Non-White Jail Guards $1.4M In Chauvin Case
The Ramsey County, Mn., Board of Commissioners apologized to eight correctional officers who were prevented from guarding Derek Chauvin...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 9, 20221 min read
Counties Spend COVID Relief Funds to Build Jails, Despite Federal Rules
Counties are dipping into funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES)...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 9, 20221 min read
Grand Jury Probes L.A. County After Deputy Knelt on Inmate's Head
A criminal grand jury is probing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s handling of a videotaped incident in which a deputy...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 4, 20222 min read
D.C. Asks Inmates What Officials Can Do To Reduce Crime
From behind bars at the Washington, D.C., jail, Sylvester Jones could sense that the streets in his city were even more dangerous than...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Court Voids Convictions Of Deputies Who Killed Mentally Ill Inmate
A California appellate court reversed the murder convictions of three Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies, reports CBS News. In 2015,...
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