2024年12月18日 · The Clayton County Jail [Credit: Clayton County Sheriff’s Office]. Several recent deaths appear to involve people who may have received inadequate medical care from CorrectHealth. Last year, Alan Willison died from testicular cancer after begging for help for almost two months. Despite his desperate pleas and worsening condition, the medical staff never sent him to a hospital, according to a ...

2024年4月4日 · Things started to change in 2018 when a coalition led by the New York-based advocacy organization Worth Rises passed first-of-its-kind legislation in New York City to make jail calls free. In 2020, local advocates did the same in San Francisco.In 2021, Connecticut became the first state to pass legislation making prison and jail communication free. . These early victories sent a powerful ...

2024年11月26日 · Warning: This story contains depictions of self-harm. Six people have burned themselves at Virginia’s infamous supermax Red Onion State Prison since the start of the year, the state’s Department of Corrections confirmed in an email to The Appeal.

2024年4月17日 · Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items.

2024年10月9日 · Hurricane Milton unleashed winds up to 140 miles an hour and catastrophic flooding in Central and Southern Florida. Thousands of people under mandatory evacuation orders fled their homes. The storm’s magnitude brought one hurricane specialist, John Morales, to tears on a local news broadcast. Morales, one of the state’s most well-respected meteorologists, warned viewers that climate change ...

2019年1月4日 · In September 2018, President Trump stood in front of 44 sheriffs as he began another diatribe against the New York Times and other media outlets that had published stories criticizing his administration. The sheriffs applauded. The meeting was originally scheduled to be between the sheriffs and officials from ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products available in prison. You can read more about what we uncovered here and how this database was built ...

2024年11月14日 · On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a damning report on conditions at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail. Federal investigators say officers and detainees routinely brutalize other imprisoned people, staff often ignore allegations of sexual assault, and people with mental illness, people perceived as gay or transgender, and children are at the greatest risk of violence.

2024年12月3日 · The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday allowed portions of Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” ban to take effect.. Now, Idaho may resume criminalizing adults who “harbor or transport” anyone under 18 to get abortions without parental consent.

2022年4月18日 · Cynthia Alvarado Photo by Val Kiebala Women Silenced Behind Prison Walls . For incarcerated women, sexual assault often comes on top of a long history of abuse. More than 90 percent of incarcerated women experienced sexual assault or physical trauma before their incarceration, according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.Unaddressed trauma is often what leads people into the criminal legal ...