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7 May 2020, 7:30 am
This puts even more people in harm’s way as COVID-19 threatens to devastate jails and prisons, where the virus can spread rapidly. [read post]
5 May 2020, 11:08 am
Minimizing the risk of Covid-19 throughout the criminal justice system It’s been said time and again that we need to flatten the curve by reducing cases of Covid-19 and the criminal justice system is discovering new ways to reduce the risk of infection. [read post]
3 May 2020, 1:54 pm
And yet, a "growing mix of health and technology experts are convinced that if the United States is to ever effectively track the coronavirus and slow its spread, then both self-reported and more surreptitiously gathered personal data — a mix of information about location, travel, symptoms and health conditions ― must be gathered from millions of Americans. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 1:14 pm
Due to the work of ACLU affiliates across the nation, at least 20,000 people have been released from jails and prisons or never brought into the criminal legal system in the first place. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 11:37 am
The law prohibits prisoners from using cannabis, but does not specifically include parolees and probationers. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 7:00 am
It is time for our nation’s immigration system to move away from its reliance on incarceration for management of a civil system. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 12:30 pm
The facilities are decrepit and out of compliance with health and safety codes. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal A Watchdog Out of Trump’s Grasp Unleashes Wave of Coronavirus Audits Politico – Kyle Cheney | Published: 4/20/2020 Lawmakers handed President Trump $2 trillion in coronavirus relief and then left town without activating any of the powerful new oversight tools meant to hold his administration accountable. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 2:00 am
As Carolina Public Press reports, this week a man who was incarcerated at Pender Correctional Institution died in a hospital due to complications from COVID-19, becoming the first person in the state prison system to succumb to the virus. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 1:09 pm
Long before the pandemic hit, many “bad actor” companies took advantage of SBA rules and qualification thresholds to game the system. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 11:28 am
The Texas prison system has placed about 1/3 of the inmate population on lockdown status, including denying them access to visitation and phone calls. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 8:45 am
Several, notable headlines drew Grits' attention related to the coronavirus and Texas prisons and jails. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 7:18 am
— Courthouse News Service Federal appeals court stops earlier order, says Texas doesn’t have to give inmates hand sanitizer or face masks for now — The ruling temporarily halted a lower court’s order that was handed down after inmates at a geriatric prison sued the Texas prison system over its handling of the coronavirus. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 3:37 pm
Similarly, states have a responsibility for their incarcerated population and may face liability claims in case of outbreak in prison facilities. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 7:30 am
Further, reforming our incarceration and policing system would go a long way toward reducing inequalities and systemic harm faced by communities of color, who were already over-policed and overrepresented in jails and prisons to begin with. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 7:28 am
Bernal agreed and noted that the Bureau of Prisons, for comparison, “has issued a more decisive and urgent call to action. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 12:54 pm
Being arrested and incarcerated in the age of the novel coronavirus puts your health at risk even more than usual as social distancing is near impossible in a prison. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 12:00 pm
La sección de derechos humanos contiene los artículos Covid-19 and Prisoners’ Rights; Linked Fate: Justice and the Criminal Legal System During the COVID-19 Pandemic; y el artículo Immigration in the Time of COVID-19. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 8:26 am
— NPR ICE can’t duck class action over detainees’ poor access to health care — A federal judge in California advanced a nationwide class action lawsuit over poor access to medical and mental health care at federal detention facilities, as infections rise among detainees. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 7:44 am
Justified by preventing the tragic daily death toll being even higher and preventing the impact on heroic medical staff and health systems being even more severe. [read post]
