Tag: jails

    St. Louis Agrees Compensation for People Jailed at Notorious “Workhouse”

    For many years, the “Workhouse” jail in St. Louis, Missouri, subjected people to horrific ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    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 ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    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, ...

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    Christy Perez & Kastalia Medrano

    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 ...

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    Christy Perez

    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 ...

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    Kastalia Medrano

    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 ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    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 ...

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