Sen. Ossoff Leads Drive Against 'Disgraceful' Prison Conditions
Jon Ossoff, a 35-year-old first-term Democratic senator from Georgia, uses lessons from Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), his former boss and...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Alaska Works With National Project To Stem 'Too Many' Prison Suicides
Alaska’s Department of Corrections commissioner told legislators this week that the state's 18 in-custody deaths in 2022 were too high....
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 31
- 1 min
More Than 2,600 Inmate-on-Inmate Sex Victimizations In 3 Years
Between 2016 and 2018, corrections authorities nationwide reported 2,666 incidents of inmate sexual victimization by another inmate and...
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Aaron Stigile
- Jan 30
- 3 min
Is Violence Against Women In Prison a Fixable Problem?
Arizona’s incarceration rate is one of the highest in the nation, in no small part because of explosive growth in the incarceration of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 27
- 2 min
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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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 27
- 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
- Jan 27
- 2 min
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
- Jan 27
- 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
- Jan 26
- 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
- Jan 24
- 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