Pamela Smart weighs in on bill that would make older 1st-degree murder inmates eligible for parole
Pamela Smart, who is serving a sentence of life in prison for being an accomplice in the murder of her husband, is weighing ...
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Blueprint to reform NY prisons calls for end to lengthy solitary confinement
That blueprint, titled “A Moment of Reckoning”, was outlined in a virtual press conference on Thursday. The blueprint calls for an end to prolonged solitary confinement, a pathway for release for ...
Remembering Breonna Taylor | 5 years later, Tamika Palmer worries about uncertain police reform agreement
Breonna Taylor's mother laments what she sees as slow progress towards justice and reform five years after her daughter's ...
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Hochul and Legislators, Urging Action on Prisons, Are Poised for a Fight on Other Public Safety Policies
The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison ...
Will Texas finally make it harder for violent people to bond out of jail?
A recurring complaint we hear from police in Dallas is that they arrest dangerous people only to see them released from jail ...
20 people charged in Nevada maximum-security prison brawl that left 3 inmates dead
Nevada prosecutors have filed multiple charges against 20 defendants over the incident, including first-degree murder and attempted murder.
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Prisons Are Anti-Labor Institutions. We Need an Anti-Carceral Labor Movement.
By devaluing incarcerated labor, prisons devalue all labor. Prisons are fundamentally anti-labor institutions, and guards’ ...
Advocates push for solitary confinement reform
As of now, people incarcerated who end up in solitary confinement can be given up to 15 days with two hours of out-of-cell time. For more serious offenses, they can be given a maximum of 30 days with ...
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‘Dangerously understaffed:’ Inmates describe fear and violence behind Red Onion’s walls
A physical altercation last summer at Red Onion State Prison, where he is incarcerated, left them deeply concerned for his ...
Borrowing from Norway, a Connecticut prison tries a new approach
Correction officers spend unstructured time with the incarcerated in the new model, hoping to stem problems before they start.
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Hundreds protest proposal to reopen Dublin women's prison as ICE detention center
DUBLIN, Calif. (KGO) -- On Saturday, hundreds rallied in Dublin near a former women's federal prison with a notorious past to protest a proposal by the Trump administration to convert it into an ...