Tag: prisons
Fact-checking PM's claims on prisons, crime and the NHS
Rishi Sunak makes a series of claims, also covering small boats and defence spending.
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Many Suicides in Prisons Could Have Been Averted, Justice Dept. Watchdog Says
The Bureau of Prisons routinely subjects prisoners to conditions that put them at heightened risk of self-harm, drug overdoses, accidents and violence [...]
Prisons must focus on rehabilitation to cut reoffending, says chief inspector
Charlie Taylor says a "fundamental reorientation" of prisons is the only way to reduce reoffending.
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Short on Staff, Prisons Enlist Teachers and Case Managers as Guards
From the outside, the prison complex in Florence, Colo., is a forbidding citadel of steel, concrete and coiled barbed wire, housing some of the most n [...]
U.S. to Fund Opioid Addiction Treatment in Jails and Prisons
The Biden administration this week accelerated efforts to fund opioid addiction treatment in jails and prisons, a core part of its drug policy agenda, [...]
Bureau of Prisons Is Closing Violent Detention Unit in Thomson, Illinois
Officials said that dangerous conditions inside the special management unit in the Thomson federal penitentiary warranted “immediate” action.
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Senate Report Finds Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Federal Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons employees have abused female inmates in at least 19 of the 29 federal facilities that have held women over the past decade, [...]
Justice Department Taps Oregon Official to Run Troubled Bureau of Prisons
WASHINGTON — Colette S. Peters, the longtime director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, has been tapped to lead the chronically mismanaged and [...]
Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse.
This story is part of The Aftermath, a Vox series about the collateral health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in communities around the US. This s [...]
Drug targets for prisons in England and Wales
Under new plans, each jail will be given a target on the number of drug tests that must be carried out.
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‘A humanitarian crisis’: Why Alabama could lose control of its dangerous prisons
A slow-moving threat from the feds
It was around 2012 when Joyce Vance, then the U.S. attorney based in Birmingham, had been reading news reports [...]
F.B.I. Agents Became C.I.A. Operatives in Overseas Prisons
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In the torturous history of the U.S. government’s black sites, the F.B.I. has long been portrayed as acting with a strong mo [...]
Justice Dept. to Investigate Abuses in Texas’ Juvenile Prisons
“We all share the same goals for the youth in our care: providing for their safety, their effective rehabilitation, and the best chance for them to [...]
Justice Dept. to Investigate Abuses in Texas’ Juvenile Prisons
“We all share the same goals for the youth in our care: providing for their safety, their effective rehabilitation, and the best chance for them to [...]
Justice Dept. to Investigate Georgia Prisons
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into allegations of unconstitutional abuses of prisoners in Georgia, a sweeping civ [...]