Por: Portland Press Herald Nation July 02, 2023
State lawmakers have passed legislation that aims to crack down on jails that record attorney-client phone calls by disqualifying investigators who listen to private jail phone calls and directing prosecutors to adopt statewide procedures to ensure confidentiality by January 2024. Following an investigation by The Maine Monitor in 2022 that revealed six county jails routinely recorded private attorney-client phone calls, then shared dozens of... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation July 26, 2023
Two years after pledging to make phone calls free for the roughly 13,000 people incarcerated inside the county's seven jails, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has given the Sheriff's Department a deadline to get it done: Dec. 1. The five supervisors voted... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Politics June 27, 2023
Los Angeles County supervisors approved a $43.4-billion budget Monday, saying they hoped it will fix the failing jails and juvenile halls while acknowledging the board's failures to successfully oversee the departments in the past. The budget for the fiscal year beginning... + más
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Portland Press Herald USA Nation March 06, 2023
Lawmakers are weighing bills to require jails to make phone calls to lawyers free and to explicitly protect phone calls through attorney-client privilege. Photo by Fred J. Field/The Maine Monitor Maine lawmakers are considering changes aimed at better protecting prisoners’... + más
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Portland Press Herald USA Opinion January 12, 2023
For someone to die prematurely while incarcerated, a lot has to go wrong. Even so, it’s happening more and more. 2022 was on record for Mainers in custody at one of the state’s prisons or jails – and supposedly in their care – following years of it getting worse, here... + más
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The Boston Globe USA Nation December 29, 2022
A new coronavirus variant dubbed XBB has swiftly spreading in the Northeast, jumping from about 35 percent of cases during the week ending Dec. 17 to just over half of cases last week, according to .Here’s a quick primer on what we know about the variant.It is more... + más
Highly Immune Evasive Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Is Quickly Becoming Dominant in U.S. as It Doubles Weekly | NBC 6 South Florida
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WPLG Local 10 USA Nation November 05, 2022
In California, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles County jail of for days at a time. In West Virginia, people held in the Southern Regional Jail urine and semen in their food. In Missouri, staged multiple uprisings last year, while in Texas, a Harris County Jail said she... + más
Why it's so hard to fix housing overcrowding in Los Angeles | Los Angeles Times
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