Washington has no statewide jail standards or oversight. It’s badly needed. Washington has America’s 4th worst jail death rate. Investigative journalists have found crumbling facilities, untrained or no on-site staff, sexual abuse, suicides, poor nutrition, and absence of medical care. T[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Prisons’
December 27th, 2024 - 7:17 pm § in Law and Courts
Guards beat black inmate to death
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) ordered 13 guards and a prison nurse fired for the fatal beating of an inmate (read story here). Robert Brooks, 43, was serving a 12-year sentence for “stabbing his girlfriend multiple times” (see story here). He was being transferred to Marcy Correctional Facili[...]
December 26th, 2024 - 8:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump retaliates (sort of) against former death row inmates
Before leaving office, Biden deprived Trump of whatever grisly enjoyment he might have gotten from presiding over the executions of 37 of the 40 inmates on the Bureau of Prisons death row (see story here). There’s likely a public consensus that he’s welcome to the remaining three: Dzhokh[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:47 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Mississippi GOP ramps up attacks on transgender people
Mississippi’s GOP-controlled legislature is about to pass a bill prohibiting “incarcerated transgender or nonbinary people from legally changing their name or gender marker while in state custody.” The bill “would prohibit incarcerated individuals from petitioning the court f[...]
April 16th, 2017 - 9:09 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: Prison Justice?
Boston Marathon Bomber Tsarnaev Severely Injured In Prison, May Never Walk Or Talk Again Infamous Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 22, was the victim of an “unfortunate accident” yesterday at Ft. Devens Detention Center in… EMPIRENEWS.NET[...]