by user | Apr 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Kate Brumback
Associated Press ATLANTA — Women at a Georgia prison who have given birth just days or weeks earlier are improperly and inhumanely shackled and placed in solitary confinement, while those in medical isolation for COVID-19 endure substandard...
by user | Apr 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Ryan J. Foley
Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — An inmate charged with beating two Iowa prison employees to death with a hammer had threatened to assault staff at another prison a year earlier using a different maintenance tool, according to records released...
by user | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Dan ScanlanThe Florida Times-Union PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — A 44-year-old Putnam County corrections officer died in a pre-dawn motorcycle crash on U.S. 17 in San Mateo, according to the Florida Highway Patrol and Sheriff’s Office. Mark Elam was riding his...
by user | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Elise SchmelzerThe Denver Post DENVER — Although the state hasn’t had long-term solitary confinement in its prisons since 2017, hundreds of people in county jails across Colorado spend 22 hours a day or more sitting alone in a small cell. Some stay in...
by user | Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
This article is reprinted with permission from Calibre Press Footage from a terrifying incident in the Oklahoma County Detention Center on March 27, 2021, shows the brutality corrections officers face when one or more inmates decide they’re going to assault or kill an...
by user | Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Erin HeffernanSt. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — A faulty cell locking system that’s plagued operations at the City Justice Center for years may have contributed to inmates escaping their cells, breaking windows and throwing items into the street in...
by user | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Seven officers involved in the in-custody death of a Black jail inmate in Texas whose family members say may have been suffering a mental health crisis have been fired, a sheriff said. The detention officers violated sheriff’s...
by user | Apr 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Meg Kinnard
Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A slew of new lawsuits accuse South Carolina prisons officials of negligence and constitutional rights violations in a 2018 riot in which seven inmates were killed and more than a dozen others injured. In the...
by user | Apr 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Sean Murphy
Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Police Department released a video Friday showing inmates drag, beat and stab a jailer before police shot and killed one who was holding a homemade knife to the jailer’s neck. The graphic...
by user | Apr 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Hannah ShirleyGrand Forks Herald GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A bill that will offer health insurance to the spouses and dependents of first responders killed in the line of duty passed the North Dakota Senate Thursday, April 1, in a 43-4 vote. House Bill 1435, introduced...
Recent Comments