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Post Views: 1,034 Article by: KATIE PARK, KERI BLAKINGER and CLAUDIA LAUER The Marshall Project Derrick Johnson had a makeshift mask. He had the spray bottle of bleach and extra soap that corrections officers provided. But he still spent every day crammed in a unit with 63 other men in a Florida prison, crowding into hallways […]
Post Views: 1,393 Source: Equal Justice Initiative A new study from researchers at Northwestern University and the World Bank found that millions of Covid-19 cases and tens of thousands of deaths could have been prevented by reducing jail populations. The U.S. has long had the world’s highest incarceration rate. It has also reported more Covid-19 […]
Post Views: 1,885 Officers’ groups say 84-year-old Sundiata Acoli, convicted of murder of New Jersey state trooper, poses no threat to public safety Source: Ed Pilkington. The Guardian. A coalition of current and retired Black police officers is calling for the release on parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther member who has been […]
Post Views: 1,005 Decarceration advocates urge lawmakers to consider sentencing reform instead as prisons have seen high rates of Covid outbreaks The southern US state of Alabama, which has the highest death rate from Covid-19 in America, is planning to use Covid relief funds to help construct three large prisons and renovate several others. State lawmakers […]
Post Views: 874 FBI asked to investigate Dallas County Jail Inmate Trust Fund More than $600,000 in Dallas County Jail inmates’ commissary funds may have been stolen and the FBI has been asked to figure out who is responsible. The issue is money that inmates place in accounts at the county jail for purchase of […]
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