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President Biden signed a bill Tuesday requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul outdated security systems and fix broken...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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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Inmate Suicide Highlights Louisiana High Solitary Confinement Rate
Jamal Harris, 23, was a prisoner who died by suicide while being held in solitary segregation at Elayn Hunt correctional facility in...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
U.S. Prisons Ban Inmates From Reading 50,000 Books
Book bans are a hot-button issue, with controversies in public schools and libraries. Far more restricted reading environments exist all...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 21, 2022
- 1 min
Massachusetts To Reform Prison Care For Mentally Ill Inmates
The Massachusetts state prison system will reform how it cares for inmates with serious mental health issues and supervise prisoners at...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 20, 2022
- 2 min
U.S. Jail Inmate Totals Up 16% Last Year; Prison Count Dropped 1%
The number of U.S. jail inmates increased 16 percent last year while the prison inmate total fell one percent, says the U.S. Bureau of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Alix McLearen Named Acting Head Of National Institute of Corrections
Dr. Alix McLearen, a clinical psychologist, was appointed by the U.S. Attorney General as Acting Director of the National Institute of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
DOJ May Grant Early Release To Some Sexually-Abused Inmates
The epidemic of sexual assaults against female federal prisoners has prompted the Justice Department to expand the use of a program to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
MO Lawmaker Seeks To Ban 'Disgusting' 'Nutraloaf' In Prisons
When inmates in Missouri’s prisons pose a security threat, they sometimes are served a loaf-like concoction that one state lawmaker says...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 13, 2022
- 2 min
Report Accuses Federal Prison Staff Of Widespread Sexual Abuse
In 2019, inmate Lauren Reynolds took the risk of identifying the officer who pressured her for sex at a federal women’s prison in...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 13, 2022
- 2 min
Firms Hired AZ Inmates With ICE Detainers Despite State Law
Despite an Arizona law that requires private companies to verify that their employees are legally able to work in the U.S., a handful of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Federal Prisons Punish Some Inmates For Using Addiction Meds
Timothy York arrived in federal prison in 2008 and has been held in a series of facilities awash with contraband drugs and violence,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
NY Inmates Worked For Slave Wages At Peak of Pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, news outlets reported that New York prisoners were being forced to make hand sanitizer and...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Nevada Maximum Security Prisoners on Long Hunger Strike
Through sobs, Nina Fernandez described a vastly different version of events from those shared by Nevada prison officials as to why her...