TX Sued Over Death Row Solitary Confinement
More than 23 years after Texas began strict isolation for its death-sentenced prisoners, and less than a week after the latest death-row...
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- 1 day ago
- 1 min
CA To Test Medicaid Coverage Inside Prisons, Jails as Reentry Strategy
Federal health officials signed off on California's plan to enroll eligible inmates in prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers in...
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Crime and Justice News
- 1 day ago
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AZ Governor Moves Swiftly to Reform Troubled Prisons
Months after a federal judge found Arizona's prison health care system and conditions of confinement unconstitutionally poor, the state's...
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Crime and Justice News
- 1 day ago
- 3 min
The Geography of Incarceration: Not Just an Urban Phenomenon
Redistricting reforms that count incarcerated people in the legislative districts they come from, rather than where they are imprisoned,...
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Crime and Justice News
- 2 days ago
- 2 min
Louisiana Prisoners Held Past Their Sentence Lengths, DOJ Says
Louisiana routinely incarcerates people past the end of their sentences, a constitutional violation the state had been warned of for at...
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Crime and Justice News
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Panel Proposes To Ease Federal Prison Releases For Medical Neglect
Federal inmates suffering from unconstitutional medical neglect could face better policies under changes being proposed by the U.S....
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Texas Prisons Plan To Improve Food With New Culinary Training
The Texas prison system wants to serve slightly more edible food. As part of a long-term plan, the corrections agency aims to do away...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 16
- 1 min
Texas Prisoners On Hunger Strike To Protest Long Solitary Confinements
Texas prisoners have been on a hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice [TDCJ]...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 12
- 2 min
Cutting Prison Term Lengths Would Yield Few New Crimes, Study Says
Shortening Illinois prison sentences of 10 years or more by small amounts would result in very few additional arrests, cutting the prison...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 12
- 2 min
Prison Journalism Project Sheds New Light on Graying U.S. Lockups
Prison makes an awful elderly care facility, yet more prisons are rapidly becoming just that, says the Prison Journalism Project. Thanks...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Judge Gives AZ 3 Months To Fix Prison Understaffing Problem
A federal judge who concluded that Arizona was providing inadequate medical and mental health care to prisoners said she will give the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 10
- 2 min
DOJ Proposes Ways To Make Inmates Pay Victims More
The Justice Department has proposed new rules that would make it harder for federal prisoners to shield their money in government-run...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 9
- 3 min
U.S. Hails Maine Prison Drug Treatment Program As Model
Two years ago, Chuck Schooley woke up in a hospital bed. He had overdosed in Maine State Prison and was rushed out of the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 6
- 2 min
Victims, Other Crime Survivors Seek Better Inmate Rehab, Dialogue
A Council on Criminal Justice task force on long prison sentences held nine listening sessions to gather input from victims and survivors...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Pregnant Arizona Inmates Claim Labor Was Forcibly Induced
Three women imprisoned in the Arizona while pregnant claim their labor was induced against their will. The women say they were forced to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 1
- 2 min
Louisiana Inmate Is Told 'You're a Slave' At 2-40 Cents Pay Per Hour
Breakfast at Louisiana’s state Capitol includes coffee, cookies and egg sandwiches made by inmates working for no pay. “They force us to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 30, 2022
- 1 min
MO Must Pay $2M For Sexual Harassment Of Prison Nurse
The Missouri Department of Corrections must pay $2 million in punitive damages in a sexual harassment case brought by a prison nurse who...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Amid High Costs of Inmate Phone Calls, CA, NJ, RI Rates Are Cheapest
People who make phone calls from state prisons and local jails often get price-gouged, with reforms falling short in preventing telephone...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Biden Signs Bill To Fix Federal Prison Cameras Amid Security Failures
President Biden signed a bill Tuesday requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul outdated security systems and fix broken...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
CA University Apologizes For Prisoner Experiments In 1960s-1970s
A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600...
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