Bleak Future of Pregnancy Behind Bars After Dobbs
The Bleak Future of Pregnancy Behind Bars After Dobbs By Audrey Nielsen | July 8, 2022 Thousands of pregnant women are incarcerated or...
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Control Over Contraband Devices Eludes Prison Authorities
Correctional administrators across the country are failing to curb the growing use of contraband cell phones in prisons and jails―some...
'Plainly grossly inadequate'
Arizona prison health care system ruled unconstitutional In an emphatic rebuke of Arizona's privatized prison health care model, U.S. ...
California Voice: Find better ways of dealing with state’s dying prisoners
People who are incapacitated or nearing the end of their lives are the most expensive to incarcerate and the least likely to reoffend. ...
Incarcerated workers: overlooked as essential workers
Conclusion The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that incarcerated people be prioritized for vaccination primarily...
COVID-19 in US prisoners, staff at triple the community rate
A study of COVID-19 rates among inmates and staff at 101 US federal prisons compared with surrounding counties from May 2020 through...
Suicides increased 85% in state prisons, 61% in federal prisons, and 13% in local jails.
This BJS report includes statistics on demographic, criminal justice, and suicide incident characteristics and link 2019 suicides with...
....leading the charge to employ the formerly incarcerated
“It’s the same work I was used to in prison, but the difference is that, in prison, I was working for 10 cents a day.” Alvin Wilson is a...
A Fight to Expose the Hidden Human Costs of Incarceration
The lethality of jails and prisons was underscored during the pandemic: according to JAMA, the infection rate for covid-19 was five...
Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in U.S. Jails and Prisons
THIS 50 STATE SNAPSHOT presents current laws, policies, and court actions related to access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD)...
White House Invests $700 Million to Fight the Spread of COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails
Today, the Biden administration announced it would allocate $700 million for COVID-19 detection and mitigation activities in...
Thousands to be returned to prison after state of Covid emergency ends.
The Biden administration legal team has decided that thousands of federal convicts who were released to home confinement to reduce the ...
Challenges of interpreting vaccination data by carceral agencies
The challenges of interpreting vaccination data reported by carceral agencies The purpose of collecting vaccine data is twofold: for...
State prisons are increasingly deadly places (data before Covid)
New data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that state prisons are seeing alarming rises in suicide, homicide, and drug and...
How Covid Tore Through the U.S. Prison System
America’s prisons, jails and detention centers have been among the nation’s most dangerous places when it comes to infections from the ...
Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-to-Zero Impact on Crime
Vera found that the United States spent roughly $33 billion on incarceration in 2000 for roughly the same level of public safety it ...
Show Me the Data!
As the Biden administration begins to implement its criminal justice reform goals, experts say that access to timely and accurate data...
Local Spending on Jails Tops $25 Billion
Jail costs rose even as crime and admissions to jail fell. As of the end of 2017: A 20% decrease in crime and a 19% drop in jail...
Jails and prisons are virus hot spots, but politics could slow efforts to inoculate their residents.
The Freakout About Giving COVID Vaccines to Prisoners Has Already Begun Toward the end of a press conference on Tuesday afternoon,...
Why protecting prisons from COVID-19 is everyone’s problem
The COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the United States has raged with particular ferocity inside prisons and jails. Such facilities...