A report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, while at least 30 percent (or 197,000 people) of the jail population was convicted, at least... Read more »
Oregon jails that house people awaiting trial on misdemeanor or serious felony charges, sometimes for months or longer, do not have consistent drug addiction programs, Ben Botkin reports for the Oregon Capitol... Read more »
Fulton county prosecutors have signaled they want prison sentences in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his top allies, Hugo Lowell reports for The Guardian. Trump, his former White House... Read more »
A Fulton County, Georgia inmate’s recent death highlights systematic failures within Fulton’s jail and across its criminal justice system, Dylan Jackson reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Samuel Lawrence was arrested for arson... Read more »
The fourth person to break out of a city jail this year in Philadelphia escaped from the city’s industrial Correctional Center, Ellie Rushing and Chris Palmer report for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Gino... Read more »
Findings published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice, based on an analysis of research studies on the effects of prison education in the U.S., discovered that incarcerated people who get an... Read more »
After the U.S. Department of Justice announced a federal investigation earlier this year into Georgia’s scandal-ridden Fulton County Jail, a Georgia state Senate subcommittee has now launched its own investigation, Minnah Arshad... Read more »
The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, a five-story jail barge that stretches the length of two football fields, is finally closing down after three decades, Jake Offenhartz reports for the Chicago Tribune.... Read more »
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Innocent until proven guilty is a beautiful credo. Unfortunately, people who haven’t been convicted of a crime are treated in ways that are darn near criminal relatively often. For many poor people,... Read more »