Some Florida Jails And Prisons Evacuated Ahead Of Milton, But Many Incarcerated Remained In Storm's Path
Ahead of Hurricane Milton, thousands of inmates were evacuated from jails and prisons in Florida. But many weren’t, despite being in...
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Sep 102 min
Maine Jail Experiment With Addicted Inmates Seems To Work
At the Somerset County jail in rural Maine, prisoners addicted to opioids received a daily pill to keep cravings in check. As soon as...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 52 min
Critics Accuse Jail Medical Provider NaphCare Of Mistreating Inmates
Jails around the U.S. often hire private health care firms, funded by taxpayers, to treat inmates. NaphCare, a billion-dollar enterprise,...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 142 min
After Son's Death In LA Jail, TX Mom Seeks Halt To Out-of-State Custody
The Kinner & Stevens Funeral Home in Louisiana wouldn’t open for hours. Sarah Knight sat in the parking lot thinking that the body inside...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 92 min
NYC Jail Inmates Deny They Refused Thousands Of Health Appointments
New York City Department of Correction staff claimed that sick people held in the jails refused to go to medical appointments when those...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 82 min
Even Single Day in Jail Causes ‘Immediate, Long-Lasting Harms’
Recent research suggests that the onset of the social and economic harms caused by pretrial detention is earlier than previously...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 72 min
Former Mississippi Deputy Given One Day In Prison For Procuring Sexual Favors From Jailed Woman
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy will spend one day in prison after a federal judge said Tuesday that a jailed woman, who alleges...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 72 min
Investigation Finds 'Astronomical' Death Rate In Maricopa County Jails
An investigation conducted by The Arizona Republic revealed that the jail system in Maricopa County has one of the nation's highest...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 52 min
'The Pendulum Has Swung' -- L.A. County Reconsiders Jail Reform
In 2019, justice reformers celebrated when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors scrapped a controversial $1.7-billion plan to...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 22 min
Alabama Jailer Guilty in Prisoner’s Freezing Death
A former Alabama jail officer pleaded guilty in a case involving a mentally ill man who succumbed to hypothermia after spending two weeks...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 312 min
How A Private Jail Health Care Company Endangers Patients In Custody
Local governments across the country have turned to private companies to provide medical and mental health care in their jails, as a way...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 292 min
In Maryland, Mentally Ill Wait In Jail Despite Court-Ordered Psychiatric Treatment
People with severe mental illness, accused of crimes in Maryland but deemed too sick by the courts to participate in their cases and who...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 162 min
Judge Says Illinois JaIl's Media, Mail Policies Violate Inmate Rights
Inmates at the Will County, Ill., Adult Detention Facility won a partial legal victory Monday, with a federal judge ruling that several...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 112 min
Reducing Jail Populations Did Not Increase Crime, Study Finds
There is no correlation between criminal justice reforms and post-COVID-19-era spikes in violent crime, concludes the John D. and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 111 min
TN Sheriff Pleads Not Guilty Of Benefitting From Jail Inmate Work
A Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 102 min
Incarcerated Artists In D.C. Jail Have Songs Professionally Recorded
In June, several incarcerated artists gathered in the jail chapel to hear the songs they wrote like never before: played from speakers,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 92 min
Short-Staffed Philadelphia Jails Report 25 Drug Deaths Since 2018
Kelly Ann Crawford had bipolar disorder and was addicted to fentanyl and Xanax. She’d tried drug treatment several times, but she always...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 92 min
650 In Maine Jails Lack Court-Appointed Attorneys
In Caribou, Maine last month Judge Stephen Nelson faced a constitutional dilemma. Prosecutors had charged a defendant with aggravated...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 122 min
Texas Man's Family Seeks Federal Probe After Jail Death
The family of a Texas man who died following an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the inmate’s back, called...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 121 min
Bureau Of Justice Statistics Releases Preliminary 2023 Jail Data
The Bureau of Justice Statistics released preliminary data on Tuesday regarding number, demographic, and conviction status of people held...
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