Prisons and jails “are looking at this very seriously, and several are using it -- trying to figure out the right balance and mix of human and technology,” said Jonathan Thompson, executive director of the National Sheriff’s Association. ...
Today, nearly half the people in US jails, and more than a third of those in US prisons, have been diagnosed with a mental illness, not to mention the prevalence of cooccurring disorders (namely mental illness and addiction), which, by most accounts, increases the ...
The attack has sparked a nationwide outcry - with a day of blockades dubbed "Dead Prisons Day" announced in jails acrossFrancetoday as prison officer unions respond in anger to Tuesday's attack. Local media on Wednesday reported demonstrations outside of prisons across t...
What I have captured here are only some of the gruesome and disturbing experiences of transgender people in Texas prisons. They are isolated in solitary confinement and subjected to oppression, predation, violence, and near-annihilation solely due to their gender identity. When such heinous tyranny ...
And not only with prisons and jails, but also with all the extensions of the prison system. So for me personally, I’ve been writing and editing stories and books about prison and related subjects for about 15 years, and I’m also involved with prison abolitionists organizing efforts. But...
Many convicted prisoners, including those charged with murder, have been given space here after years of good conduct in closed jails. People leave in the morning and are asked to report in the evening. There is only one official overseeing the prison. Families live in their homes and share...
Officials subsequently raised the security level at jails across the country, prison system spokesman Alberto Uribe said, adding the discovery showed “the inmates are planning something.” Lidia Alvarado, 44, was found hiding a cylinder containing the weapon and the drugs, as she entered La Espera...
he was in an encounter with his girlfriend and was arrested on domestic violence or disturbing the peace charges. He told the officers he was a psychiatric patient, but of course, jails have become America’s answer to mental illness. The police threw him into a cell after booking him, ...
Paul Felton, vice president for corporate finance at Sutro & Co. in San Francisco, has been studying the investment potential in corporate jails and believes opportunities abound. “The public criminal justice system has had a corner on the market for 150 years, but now we are seeing all kind...
went into private practice after earning a law degree in night classes at Southwestern Law School, and years later he became a consulting attorney for the ACLU of Southern California. He spent much of the 1980s and 1990s litigating cases on overcrowding and other conditions in jails and ...