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Crime and Justice News
Jan 22, 20242 min read
Staff Shortages Plague Colorado Prisons, Report Finds
A report highlights continued problems that Colorado prison staff shortages create for the state’s incarcerated population, News From The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 19, 20242 min read
Arkansas Has Too Many Inmates; Progress On New Prison Slow
Arkansas’ prison board and state leader agree that the state needs a new prison, but progress has inched along. Nearly a year after Gov....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 18, 20242 min read
Oklahoma Corrections Tablet Program Gets Mixed Reviews
A few years after the first tablets were issued to Oklahoma prison inmates, the program is receiving a mixed reception, News From The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20241 min read
Louisiana Prison Chief Who Supported Criminal Justice Reforms To Stay On Under New Governor
Louisiana's prisons chief, Jimmy Leblanc, who helped implement former Gov. John Bel Edwards' bipartisan criminal justice overhaul at the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20242 min read
Maryland Prison Corrupt With ‘White Gang’ Corrections Officers, Lawsuit Says
A recent lawsuit alleges that White correctional officers in Maryland prisons created a “race-based gang” to block employees of color...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 15, 20241 min read
Two VA Prison Officers Named in Suit Over Disabled Inmate's Death
Attorneys representing the sister of Charles Givens — a disabled inmate at Virginia's Marion Correctional Treatment Center who died after...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 11, 20241 min read
Alabama Inmates’ Bodies Returned Without Organs, Lawsuit Claims
The bodies of two men who died while incarcerated in Alabama’s prison system were missing their hearts or other organs when returned to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 10, 20241 min read
Former Oregon Governor Can Be Deposed in Prisoner COVID Lawsuit
A Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday upheld an order compelling former Oregon Governor Kate Brown to be deposed in a class-action lawsuit filed...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 9, 20241 min read
Federal Prisons Continue To Face Overcrowding As Population Reduction Efforts Expire
Despite being over-capacity and chronically short-staffed, two federal prison programs that allow people to live in their communities...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 4, 20241 min read
Abuse, Misconduct ‘Rampant’ at San Francisco Women’s Prison
Abuse and misconduct has grown so “rampant” at a San Francisco Bay Area federal women’s prison that new officials struggle to implement...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 4, 20242 min read
'Gastronomic Cruelty': Correctional Food Assailed, Eyed for Reforms
As people were planning holiday meals last month, Daniel A. Rosen opined about food within correctional facilities -- what he describes...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20242 min read
Designation Of Prison Deaths As 'Natural' Raises Questions
Kesha Jackson’s husband was incarcerated in federal prison in Arkansas, and he was about to be released after 18 years. Then, Jackson got...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20242 min read
Seattle Federal Jail Faces Staffing Crisis
Frank Coluccio had two hours of his shift to go at the federal detention center in SeaTac when he was given the news: “You’re being...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 2, 20242 min read
Oklahoma Prisons Plan Massive Security Upgrades
In an effort to improve safety behind bars for inmates and correctional employees, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is working on...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20231 min read
Chicago Bus Trips Reunite Kids With Their Incarcerated Mothers
Three Chicago nonprofits organize a bus trip to bring together kids and their incarcerated mothers, calling it the Reunification Ride,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Arkansas Could Deploy National Guard To Short-Staffed Prisons
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will decide whether to activate 138 National Guard Members after the head of the state’s prisons...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 20, 20232 min read
Report: Jail And Prison Population Growth Likely to Continue
The number of people locked up in the nation's jails and prisons is likely to continue to rise due to a rollback of criminal justice...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Despite Misconduct, Fired New York Prison Guards Return To Work After Arbitration
A guard working at a Hudson Valley prison pummeled a 19-year-old shackled by the legs to a restraint chair. An officer at a facility near...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 13, 20232 min read
Prisoners Sue Alabama, Say Paroles Denied To Allow Slave Labor
Current and former prisoners sued Alabama on Tuesday, saying that the state’s system of prison labor is a “modern-day form of slavery”...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 11, 20232 min read
Female Prisoner Spike Is ‘Step In Wrong Direction,' Expert Says
For the first time in nearly a decade, the U.S. inmates increased, and the rise was much bigger for women sent to prison. "It's really...
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