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How Privatization Destroyed an Illinois Jail's Award-winning Suicide Prevention Program
Several years ago, while working at our local Books to Prisoners, I met a volunteer who was formerly a mental health counselor in the local jail in Champaign County, Illinois. This was just after there had been three jail suicides within a six-month period in 2004. She recalled a time ...
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Employee Disciplinary Problems Persist at Houston Jails, by Matthew Clarke
- How Privatization Destroyed an Illinois Jail's Award-winning Suicide Prevention Program, by Brian Dolinar
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- High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics, by Osagie K. Obasogie
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- First Circuit: Rejection of Settlement Offer Does Not Justify Defendants’ Attorney Fee Award
- Pennsylvania: Parole Board May Expound on Court-ordered Probation Conditions
- Washington Community Custody, Sex Offender Registration and Release Conditions Modified
- Seventh Circuit Retires “De Minimis” Standard for Use of Physical Force
- New Mexico Prison Doctor Fingered in Lawsuits
- Minnesota: Remedies for Civil Commitments are Limited
- Qualified Immunity for NY Prison Officials who Failed to Award Parole Jail Time
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- Louisiana Prisoners Used as Slave Labor During Hurricane Ida, Families Left in the Dark for Weeks, Nov. 1, 2021
- Eleven Guards Fired after Death at Houston Jail, Nov. 1, 2021
- Hunger Strike, Ceiling Collapse, Lawsuit Spotlight Deteriorating Conditions at Women’s Prison in Illinois, Oct. 1, 2021
- Prioritizing Incarcerated People for Vaccine Quickly Reduced COVID in IL Prisons, June 1, 2021
- New Surge of COVID Is Spreading “Like Wildfire” in Illinois Prisons, March 1, 2021
- Illinois Prison Phone Rates are Lowest Following Grassroots Activism, Aug. 6, 2019
- Profiting Off Mass Incarceration: Detroit Pistons Owner Buys Private Prison Phone Company, Oct. 10, 2017
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More from these topics:
- Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff, June 1, 2025. Suicides, Guards/Staff, Staff Training.
- Ninth Circuit Revives Complaint Over Sloppy Cell Checks Before Psychotic Detainee’s Death at L.A. Jail, June 1, 2025. Failure to Protect (General), Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides.
- Self-Harming Wisconsin Prisoner Settles Failure-to-Protect Suit for $7,000, April 1, 2025. Settlements, Suicides, Failure to Protect (Staff).
- Federal Watchdog Calls Out BOP for Spiking Suicide Risk at Pennsylvania Lockup, April 1, 2025. Suicides, Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
- Trump Tosses Toothless Biden Private Prison “Ban”, March 1, 2025. Private Prisons.
- El Salvador Offers Prison Space to Private Prison Shill Marco Rubio, March 1, 2025. Private Prisons.
- Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum, Feb. 15, 2025. Private Contractors, Settlements, Suicides.
- DOJ Directs BOP, U.S. Marshals to Improve Suicide Prevention, Feb. 15, 2025. Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Civil Rights Violations.
- Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide, Jan. 15, 2025. Disabled Prisoners, Videotaping, Restraints, Wrongful Death, Suicides, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders.
- Suicidal Texas Prisoners Held in Phone-Booth-Size “Containment Cages”, Dec. 15, 2024. Strip Cells, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Suicides.