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Crime and Justice News
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Pennsylvania Prison Unit Helps Inmates With Mental Disabilities
A Pennsylvania prison door offer “Ways to say hello,” suggestions about how prisoners in a segregated unit of the state prison at Albion...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 1, 20241 min read
Knowing Risks, Florida Let Prisoners Drink Contaminated Water
Groundwater around the Florida State Fire College has been highly contaminated for years, but inmates at the nearby Lowell women’s prison...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 28, 20242 min read
CA Federal Judge Likely to Appoint Special Master For Women’s Prison
A federal judge on Tuesday indicated she was likely to appoint a special master to investigate claims of rampant misconduct and sexual...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 27, 20242 min read
AZ Cops Say Prosecutor Gave Prison Chief Preferential Treatment
When an Arizona prosecutor and judge signed off on a probationary plea deal for the state's former prisons chief, who was charged with...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 26, 20242 min read
Will High Louisiana Prison Deaths Rate Rise Under New Governor?
Lois Ratcliff says she hardly survived watching her son slowly die in one of the south’s most brutal prisons. Ratcliff’s son, Farrell...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20241 min read
South Carolina Sued for Banning Inmates from In-Person Interviews
The ACLU has sued the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Thursday, alleging that its policy banning those in its custody from...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20241 min read
Virginia Legislators Limit Use of Prison Attack-Dogs
Virginia Legislators on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill addressing the Virginia Department of Corrections' reliance on attack-trained...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22, 20241 min read
Congressional Dems Seek Better Care For Trans Prisoners
Congressional Democrats are pushing for more information about the living conditions of transgender inmates in federal prisons and jails...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22, 20242 min read
Louisiana Prison Hospice Program Has Become National Model
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A 1990 New Orleans barroom altercation escalated to the point...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20241 min read
IG Report Cites Short-Staffed, Negligent Federal Prison System
Negligence, operational failures and a blundering workforce contributed to hundreds of inmate deaths in federal custody, the Justice...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 15, 20242 min read
Mississippi Woman Claims Prison Medical Providers Neglected to Treat Her Cancer
A formerly incarcerated woman facing terminal breast cancer is suing the Mississippi prison system’s former and current health care...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 14, 20241 min read
Corrections Officer Sentenced to Year in Prison for Abuse Cover-up
A former Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) tactical officer will serve more than a year in prison for covering up an excessive...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 12, 20242 min read
New Citizen Panel in Minnesota Will Decide Which Inmates Get Parole
The Minnesota Department of Corrections will soon seek citizen help with deciding who gets out of prison and who remains locked up. Under...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 8, 20242 min read
One-Third Of Prison Systems Fine Inmates For Rules Violations
In another example of how the justice system extracts wealth from the poorest families, at least one-third of prison systems nationwide...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20241 min read
Shortage of Guards Led to Prison Lockdowns in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s top prison official wrote to the governor in 2015 with a dire warning: The state prisons were dangerously understaffed,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 1, 20242 min read
AR Governor, Board Dispute Hiring Of Temporary Prison Director
The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted to hire a former Republican state senator as the prison system’s interim head. The vote to make...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 29, 20242 min read
U.S. Prisoners Part of Hidden Workforce Linked to Food Brands
A hidden path to dinner tables begins at an unlikely source, a former Southern slave plantation that is now the largest U.S....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 29, 20242 min read
Prison Art Show at Lincoln's Cottage Critiques U.S. Justice System
This month, Caddell Kivett's exhibit "Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project," opened at President Lincoln's Cottage in...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 26, 20241 min read
As Inmate Population Drops, Mass. Will Shutter Oldest Men's Prison
Massachusetts plans to close MCI-Concord, the state’s oldest prison for men, as the statewide prison population continues to decline,...
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By Ted Gest
Jan 23, 20242 min read
Prisoner Rehab Under First Step Act 'Way of Life' For U.S. Prison Agency
The federal prison reform law known as the First Step Act, one of the only criminal-justice reform laws passed by Congress in recent...
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