Incarceration

NY: Homeless Man Jailed for Failing to Put Address on Sex Offender Registry Dies at Rikers

·July 21, 2020
·21 Comments

[thecity.nyc - 7/20/20] On March 4, Hector Rodriguez was sent to Rikers Island because he failed to log his address with state’s sex offender registry — even though he had…

California

CA: COVID Cuts A Lethal Path Through San Quentin’s Death Row

·July 8, 2020
·7 Comments

[californiahealthline.org - 7/8/20] The old men live in cramped spaces and breathe the same ventilated air. Many are frail, laboring with heart disease, liver and prostate cancer, tuberculosis, dementia. And…

California

CA: COVID-19 is a death sentence for many California prisoners. Gov. Gavin Newsom must act

·July 2, 2020
·1 Comment

In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed a death penalty moratorium in California. Will it matter? The COVID-19 outbreak unfolding at San Quentin State Prison – and in other jail and…

National

NM: Massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.

·June 29, 2020
·16 Comments

[http://nmindepth.com - 6/27/20] As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex…

Commentary

Kat’s Blog: Post Incarceration Syndrome (PICS)

·June 26, 2020
·26 Comments

Researchers at NCBI/National Institute for Biotechnology Information have suggested that Post-Incarceration Syndrome/PICS should be considered a specific sub-cluster of psycho-social problems that share or overlap symptoms with PTSD/Post Traumatic Stress…

Commentary

Kat’s Blog: Things That Make You Go, Hmmm

·March 20, 2020
·25 Comments

Not wanting to fill jails during the coronavirus, LA police have decreased the amount of arrests they make from 300 per day to 60. A sort of “catch and release…

Commentary

MI: Forum: Re-examine child sexual abuse policy

·February 27, 2020
·0 Comments

[record-eagle.com - 2/26/20] Kristen Burgess took a courageous step forward (Record-Eagle, Jan. 5) to shed light on the community’s response to intrafamilial sexual abuse. When I started my career in…

General News

Op-Ed: Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide was part of a much bigger crisis in U.S. jails and prisons

·August 28, 2019
·5 Comments

[latimes.com - 8/19/19] The New York City medical examiner’s ruling that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in jail has prompted a lot of hand-wringing about conditions in the facility…

National

US mass incarceration damages health and shortens lives

·July 28, 2019
·7 Comments

[thelancet.com - July 2019] The USA has a problem with incarceration. Since 1970, the number of people incarcerated has climbed from less than 500 000 to 2·3 million. Despite only 5%…

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