Por: CBS News Crime January 27, 2023
Louisiana's longstanding practice of detaining incarcerated people past their scheduled release dates is unconstitutional, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. In a summarizing the findings of an investigation that uncovered a pattern of systemic overdetention in Louisiana prisons dating back at least a decade, the federal agency said there is reasonable cause to believe that the state routinely confines people in its... + full article
WPLG Local 10 USA Health January 27, 2023
HOUSTON – A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are awaiting execution, saying it causes severe physical and psychological harm. The... + más
Texas death row inmates sue over solitary confinement | Associated Press
Op-Ed: Here in San Quentin, I see why solitary confinement must end | Los Angeles Times
Associated Press USA Health January 27, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are awaiting execution, saying it causes severe physical and psychological harm.... + más
Texas death row inmates sue over solitary confinement | WPLG Local 10
Los Angeles Times USA Opinion January 17, 2023
It’s shameful that it took decades for UC San Francisco to acknowledge and publicly apologize for faculty members who conducted unethical experiments on hundreds of men incarcerated at a medical facility in Northern California. Only now has the institution begun reckoning with... + más
'Inhumane and Horrific': City of Philadelphia Apologizes for Experiments on Black Inmates | NBC 6 South Florida
UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the ’60s and ’70s | Los Angeles Times
The Advocate USA Crime November 16, 2022
A federal judge has ruled that a Louisiana prison violated the constitutional rights of inmates held in extended lockdown by exposing them to mental torture and depriving them of adequate mental health care.Western District of Louisiana Judge Elizabeth Foote wrote in a that... + más
Louisiana prison's lockdown conditions violate inmates' rights, are 'mental torture,' judge says | The Advocate
Deputy, jail officers out after staging inmate wrestling matches: Sheriff | Newsweek
The Advocate USA Crime November 03, 2022
Photos show evidence of teeth pulling, live burials in Russian torture room | Newsweek
Newsweek USA Nation September 30, 2022
Thousands of inmates in Hurricane Ian-affected areas of southwest Florida were transferred or evacuated as part of contingency plans developed prior to the major weather event.The Florida Department of Corrections said that at least 25 facilities were evacuated, in cities... + más
Pictures: Florida Braces for Hurricane Ian as Storm Makes Landfall in Cuba | NBC 6 South Florida
Newsweek USA Nation September 26, 2022
Three sheriff's office employees are out of their jobs after staging wrestling matches with three inmates in Ohio.Security cameras captured the fights at the Fairfield County jail in June, according to Fairfield County Sheriff Alex Lape in Lancaster, Ohio. The sheriff told... + más
Woman pretended to be a deputy, faked paperwork to spring someone from jail, sheriff says | The Advocate
Arrest diversions at Cumberland County Jail are costly, but only option | Portland Press Herald
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