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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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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Crime and Justice News
May 2, 20221 min read
Alabama Inmate Disappears With Corrections Official
The U.S. Marshals Service is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the capture of Casey White, an Alabama inmate charged with...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 20, 20222 min read
U.S. Attorney May Ask Federal Court to Run Rikers Island Jails
Manhattan's U.S. Attorney raised the prospect of placing New York City's Rikers Island jail complex under a federal court’s control, an...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 20, 20221 min read
29 Inmates Have Died During Pandemic in Philadelphia Jails
Twenty nine Philadelphia jail inmates have died during the COVID pandemic, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Mark Subher was held in...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 23, 20221 min read
NYC Mayor Adams Faces Public Safety Issues Over Subways, Jails
Mayor Eric Adams invested a good chunk of a meeting last week with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot about ways to tackle gang violence,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 17, 20222 min read
Lack Of Oversight Apparent In COVID-19 Outbreak in Prisons, Jails
Prisons and jails are considered closed facilities. Few visitors gain access to them even though they house people for months, years,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 17, 20222 min read
Monitor Says NYC's Rikers Jail Remains 'Unstable and Unsafe'
Despite New York City’s claims to have made progress in remedying the crisis on Rikers Island, the jail complex remains a place of...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 14, 20221 min read
During Pandemic, Prison Numbers Fell 16%, Jail Inmates Down 13%
U.S. prison populations fell by about 16 percent during the pandemic. Ten percent fewer people were released from prison during 2020 than...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 3, 20222 min read
Some Serious Inmate Injuries in NYC Rikers Jail Go Unreported Publicly
When a man was beaten In New York City's Rikers Island jail in December, guards downplayed his injuries, delaying a report and then...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Prison, Jail Populations Rise As COVID-19 Reforms Are Abandoned
In its latest report on prison and jail populations during the pandemic, the Prison Policy Initiative says that the number of people...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Many Die At Rikers Jail Despite Reforms, Declining Population
At least 16 people died in New York City jails last year. Most were awaiting trial and died on Rikers Island, the 90-year-old warren of...
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