by Chuck Sharman
Los Angeles County officials were set to begin making the first $600 million in payouts in early July 2026, under an historic $4 billion settlement agreement with some 6,800 former detainees subjected to sexual abuse in County juvenile lockups. Payouts were also getting underway under …
by Daniel A. Rosen
My most vivid memory of Aramark’s food service inside jails and prisons came early on in my incarceration: I watched a man at the D.C. Jail dig into the entrée on his evening meal tray and uncover half a dead mouse. Those of us …
by Nichole Manna
For 30 minutes, Brian Tracey lay naked and unable to breathe on the floor of the medical ward at the St. Johns County Detention Center, a low-roofed building south of Jacksonville, Florida. It was Dec. 15, 2023, the day Tracey was supposed to be released …
by Matt Clarke
Brentwood, Tennessee-based CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), the state’s largest prison, and three other Tennessee prisons for the state Department of Corrections (DOC). But despite the company’s large footprint in Tennessee, its legacy is dismal at best …
