Lawsuit accuses prisons of putting disabled inmates in solitary units A class-action lawsuit accuses NY prisons of misusing solitary confinement as officers union says violence has soared without it ... 05/13/2024 - 3:05 am | View Link
New push to end solitary confinement in federal prisons, including mentally ill inmates They also want the ban to apply to mentally ill inmates housed in prison hospitals, including Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts. 05/6/2024 - 9:42 pm | View Link
Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning The filing says nearly 70% of Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisons lack air conditioning and units routinely reach 100 degrees or higher. 04/22/2024 - 2:36 pm | View Link
Federal government plans on incarcerating migrants in its penitentiaries (Nathan Gross/CBC) The Trudeau government wants to use federal prisons to detain migrants deemed "high-risk," according to a line buried in the federal budget tabled on Tuesday. The statement ... 04/17/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
The Feds Will Close a Notorious California Prison Where Guards Abused Women with Impunity The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced Monday that it ... and federal laws that ban any sexual contact between staff and inmates go unenforced, and in many cases where an incarcerated ... 04/16/2024 - 2:07 am | View Link