by Dale Chappell
Apparently, it’s easier to release someone from jail and dismiss the charges if their issues become too much trouble, according to a lawsuit filed by James Bagley in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Bagley was arrested in September 2017 for suspected driving ...
by Dale Chappell
Former prisoners who have turned to the nonprofit organization The Doe Fund in New York City for work and job training have found themselves making less than minimum wage, once the Doe Fund takes its fees out of their paychecks. Some say this is exploitation of those ...
by Dale Chappell
A whistleblower at a privately operated federal detention center in Georgia prompted a joint complaint filed in September 2020 with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleging inadequate and even suspicious medical care for the immigrants being held there. ...
by Dale Chappell
While the coronavirus runs rampant through the country’s prisons, medical treatment for even serious problems has taken a backseat, leaving prisoners to get creative and perform their own treatment. For one New Jersey prisoner, this meant cleaning his infected wound with bleach, his family says, making them ...
by Dale Chappell
On March 20, 2020, Alaska’s Supreme Court shut down a state prisoner’s argument that his diagnosis as a schizophrenic was incorrect because he claims he can actually see ghosts due to a genetic mutation.
Adam Israel had been in custody of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) ...
by Dale Chappell
Suicides in California prisons reached a record high last year, with 38 recorded. According to prison and union officials, a lack of psychiatrists and other problems in the state’s prison system contributed to the high number.
Despite an offer of a $300,000 annual salary plus government benefits, the California ...
by Dale Chappell
Almost 60 percent of COVID-19 cases in Chicago were linked to police throwing people in the Cook County Jail and then releasing them to their home communities, according to a Harvard University study published in June 2020. Researchers found that “jail cycling” accounted for over one-third of ...
by Dale Chappell
It used to be that specially trained prisoners who worked on the front lines fighting wildfires couldn’t continue to work as firefighters after their release. Thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on September 11, 2020, some prisoner-firefighters may find it’s possible to stay ...
by Dale Chappell
The Indiana National Guard has switched roles in helping the Indiana Department of Correction (“IDOC”) during the coronavirus pandemic, from that of health-care workers to prison guards, as prison staff become infected by COVID-19.
Back in May 2020, as COVID-19 infected the nation’s prisons, the National Guard ...
by Dale Chappell
Every state spends more money on prisons than on schools, according to PolitiFact. But you can’t blame the states — the federal government made them do it.
Some 25 years ago, President Bill Clinton signed into law the biggest incendiary device that lit the fire of mass ...
