Tag: jails
FCC Begins Quietly Backing Off From Phone Call Price Caps in Prisons, Jails
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has temporarily waived the deadline for correctional telecommunications providers ...
Oregon Legislature Passes Fentanyl Criminalization Bill
Oregon legislators have passed a bill that adds new mandatory minimum sentences for fentanyl ...
Outside “Remediation Manager” Will Run Rikers Island, Judge Rules
A federal judge has made a historic decision to take control of the Rikers ...
St. Louis Agrees Compensation for People Jailed at Notorious “Workhouse”
For many years, the “Workhouse” jail in St. Louis, Missouri, subjected people to horrific ...
Another Death in NYC Jail, as Mayor Adams Plans to Send in ICE
The New York City jails crisis is spiraling; a 34th person is now reported ...
Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer
In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, ...
Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.
Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its ...
US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call Rate Caps
The landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone ...
St. Louis Weighs What to Do With the Shuttered “Workhouse” Jail
For years, St. Louis activists have fought to shut down the city’s notorious Medium ...
WV Governor, Chief of Staff Fighting Subpoena for Jail Civil Rights Suit
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) is fighting a deposition that would require him ...
