The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/corrections/prisons/)
Coronavirus has continued to spread widely in detention facilities, despite officials taking measures to stem it. Prisons have released thousands of inmates to ease overcrowding and stepped up health screenings among visitors.
Ashley Diamond, sent to prison on a parole violation, has filed a lawsuit charging that she has been assaulted and threatened repeatedly.
“The Biden administration is well-positioned to take concrete steps” toward fulfilling Barack Obama’s pledge to close the Guantanamo prison, which holds 40 alleged terrorists at a cost of $13 million per detainee, argues a former lawyer with the U.S. Department of Defense. But whether it’s politically expedient to do so is another question.
Gov. Larry Hogan acts as Maryland is facing a two-week-plus stretch of record-setting numbers of new coronavirus cases.
A federal prison complex in Louisiana, FCC Oakdale, failed to comply with federal health guidance, leaving inmates infected with COVID-19 with otherwise healthy inmates in their housing units for weeks, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Tuesday. The report comes as coronavirus cases continue to rise at an alarming rate throughout America and behind bars.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office found troubling conditions within Massachusetts prisons that authorities say have resulted in inmates dying or seriously injuring themselves while on mental-health watch.
Juan Carlos Seresi, a money launderer whose projected release date from the federal Bureau of Prisons had been July 8, 2419, was ordered freed “without delay” by U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson.
The death toll has neared 1,400, says the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project.
“In essence, we have a corrections officer that gave him a death sentence that wasn’t administered by a judge,” says a prison reformer.
With at least 231 deaths from COVID-19 in Texas prisons and jails, the state has seen more infections and deaths among incarcerated people and staff than any other in the nation, according to a new report from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.