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Crime and Justice News
Feb 8, 20232 min read
Many Who Die In Houston Jails Had Mental Illness Records
After hours of administering state testing for her Houston-area middle school students, Rowena Ward glanced at the phone silenced in her...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 24, 20232 min read
NYC Jails Want To Bar Physical Mail To Inmates As A Safety Measure
The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) wants to stop incarcerated people from receiving physical mail inside city jails,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20232 min read
Rikers Island Sick-Leave Fraud Probers Are Under Investigation
Two New York City investigators responsible for rooting out sick-leave fraud and other corruption at the Rikers Island jail complex are...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20223 min read
How To Avoid Preventable Deaths Among Unconvicted Jail Inmates
On October 22, Erick Tavira died by suicide in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex. He was one of at least 19 people who have died...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20222 min read
Appeals Court Delays Receiver's Takeover Of Mississippi Jail
Mississippi’s largest county won a legal victory in its effort to stave off a rare federal takeover of its jail, where a judge has found...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 4, 20221 min read
New L.A. County Sheriff Luna Vows To Improve Jail Conditions
Los Angeles County's Robert Luna, the new head of the nation’s largest sheriff’s department, vowed Saturday to usher in an era of...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 23, 20222 min read
Three Officers Fired, Arrested After Beating In Georgia Jail
Three officers who were caught on camera in a widely seen video beating and repeatedly punching a detainee at a jail in Camden County,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20222 min read
Amid Rising Jail Deaths, DOJ Gives $2M For Worker-Training Center
Three U.S Justice Department agencies are awarding nearly $2 million for a new Department of Justice Jails and Justice Support Center to...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 11, 20222 min read
Three NYC Rikers Island Officers Accused Of Taking Fake Sick Leave
Three New York City correction officers were charged with lying about being sick and taking leave for more than a year, in the midst of a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20222 min read
Transgender Influencer, Legally Female, Housed in Miami Men's Jail
Transgender influencer and content creator Nikita Dragun was arrested and held in a men's unit of a Miami jail this week after being...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
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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