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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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Crime and Justice News
Aug 1, 20221 min read
Federal Judge to Control Mississippi Jail, Citing 'Egregious' Conditions
A federal judge seized control over a Mississippi jail after finding “severely deficient” conditions, Associated Press reports. The judge...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 28, 20222 min read
IN Female Inmates Say They Were Attacked After Guard Sold Jail Key
At least 28 women are suing officials of the Clark County Jail in Jefferson, In., alleging that officials violated their civil rights by...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20221 min read
MD Defendants Charge Illegal Jailing For Weeks or Months
Nine people who were detained at the Prince George County, Md., jail near Washington, D.C., allege in a lawsuit that they and potentially...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 12, 20222 min read
Corrections Officer Fired After 10th Rikers Death This Year
A 31-year-old man died on Sunday in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex, prompting the immediate firing of a correction officer...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20221 min read
Medical Care in Prisons, Jails Hard To Come By During Pandemic
The nearly two million incarcerated people in the U.S. have a constitutional right to medical treatment. During the pandemic, many of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 25, 20221 min read
Federal Judge Grants More Time For NYC's Revised Rikers Island Plan
A federal judge refrained from stripping control of New York City's Rikers Island jail complex from local officials, instead ordering the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 20, 20222 min read
Will 'Fear-Mongering' About Crime Lead to Prison, Jail Population Rise?
.While the COVID pandemic has led to drops in many states' incarceration rates, without policy changes, the reductions will almost...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20222 min read
How 'Good Police Work' Tracked Alabama Fugitives Over 11 Days
“This case was solved through just boots on the ground, good police work,” said U.S. Marshal Marty Keely of the capture of convict Casey...
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Crime and Justice News
May 9, 20222 min read
Fired AL Jail Official, Escaped Convict Captured in Indiana
A former Alabama jail official and the murder suspect she is accused of helping escape from custody were apprehended in Indiana after...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20221 min read
Missing AL Murder Suspect, Jail Staffer Had 'Special Relationship'
The moment Alabama capital murder suspect Casey White and jail supervisor Vicky White left the Lauderdale County Jail in what appears to...
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