U.S. criminal justice policies have led to a 585 percent increase in the incarcerated women’s population since 1980 and have resulted in the highest female incarceration rate in the world.
Without air conditioning, inmates are "literally trapped in a burning hot cell," according to a new lawsuit.
Families described not being told their loved one was in the hospital or even when they had died.
It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.
Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.
The problems with these test kits are well-known, and there have been hundreds of documented cases of wrongful arrests based on them.
Justice Department investigators found squalid living conditions, unchecked violence, and illegal mistreatment of minors and mentally ill inmates.
Roberson was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on "shaken baby syndrome" evidence, until Texas lawmakers subpoenaed him to testify.
"We are living in pure chaos," an incarcerated woman at a federal prison in Minnesota tells Reason following a string of suspected overdoses.
The Safer Supervision Act would create an off-ramp for those with good behavior to petition to have their supervised release sentences terminated early.
All three inmates were mentally ill and became dehydrated despite ready access to water.
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
More than 20 people died while in custody of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department last year.
“I couldn’t believe it was my baby,” Amanda Bews' mother said. "She looked like she was mummified."
The issue was rejected because it "jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution."
"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.
The Justice Department will investigate reports that inmates at Fulton County Jail are subject to filthy living conditions.
No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.
Prisons and jails around the country have been banning physical mail and used book donations under the flimsy justification of stopping contraband.
"The firing squad, in my opinion, is beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho," said one state senator. "We have to find a better way."
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Reason reported in 2020 on allegations of fatal medical neglect inside two federal women's prisons. The Bureau of Prisons heavily redacted reports that would show if women died of inadequate care.
"There is an obligation both to incarcerated persons and the taxpayers not to keep someone incarcerated for longer than they should be," a Louisiana district attorney said. "Timely release is not only a legal obligation, but arguably of equal importance, a moral obligation."
The U.S. Sentencing Commission might make medical neglect a qualifying condition for compassionate release.
On Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that could see the state's attempt to execute inmates by electrocution or firing squad declared unconstitutional.
"Just because I made some bad choices in my life, they shouldn't be allowed to make bad health choices for me and my baby," said one woman whose labor was induced against her will.
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Inmates with opioid addiction suffered severe withdrawal after the Jefferson County Correctional Facility stripped them of their medication.
The California State Auditor's Office found that the jails responded poorly to inmate deaths.
This deadly and contagious disease has exposed problems with prison systems that have been ignored for decades.
"What they are doing to people is cruel and unusual. It isn't right."
Lawyers, inmates' families, and correctional officers worry the jail is ill-prepared to handle an outbreak.
Inmates complained for years that they were in fear for their lives. Now one of them is a quadriplegic.
The FIRST STEP Act gives dying inmates the opportunity to appeal to a judge for compassionate release. This case shows why.
It's encouraging to see police stand up for inmates' rights.
A bill to stop the dangerous practice reaches the next step.
In California's Santa Rita Jail, pregnant inmates were pressured to have abortions, forced to go without food, and made to live in unsanitary conditions, a new lawsuit alleges.
Tulsa County owes $10.2 million in damages.
Even with the best of intentions, using jails to house the mentally ill is a bad policy.
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