by Jo Ellen Knott
Legal payouts by the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) more than doubled in fiscal year 2025, reaching over $7 million in settlements and court judgments.
Despite the sharp increase from the previous year, civil rights attorneys point out that the sum represents a …
by Jo Ellen Knott
Neglect and punishing isolation have turned the Joliet Treatment Center (JTC) in Illinois from a promised mental health sanctuary into a desperate inferno.
According to an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, conditions at the lockup became hellish after …
by Jo Ellen Knott
More than two dozen people have been charged following multiple criminal investigations at South Carolina’s Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia, exposing widespread staff misconduct and pointing to persistent operational failures at a jail already cited for unconstitutional conditions.
Richland County Sheriff …
by Jo Ellen Knott
In a move to control its mounting fiscal crisis, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced on July 1, 2026, that it will shutter at least six low- and minimum-security facilities housing thousands of prisoners.
The sweeping consolidation plan targets facilities plagued by …
by Jo Ellen Knott
On the early morning of June 29, 2026, detainees at the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center—a jail in rural North Carolina—staged a rebellion, gaining control of the facility and taking three guards hostage.
Detainees “assaulted on-duty guards and gained control of portions of the …
by Jo Ellen Knott
death-in-custody crisis continues to unfold at the Tarrant County Jail (TCJ) in Fort Worth, where three prisoners perished within a single four-day span in June 2026. According to a report by KERA News in …
by Jo Ellen Knott
The Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) is facing a severe medical healthcare crisis characterized by chronic understaffing, systemic neglect, and delayed treatments. Last year, Nevada correctional facilities saw a record 76 deaths, with over half stemming from unaddressed medical issues.
A recent investigation …
by Jo Ellen Knott
Maryland’s state prisons are facing a deadly surge in violence, with nearly half the 46 prisoner homicides since 2015, occurring between 2024 and 2025. In the last three years, more prisoners have been killed in Maryland prisons than in all four neighboring states combined. …
by Jo Ellen Knott
The Jersey Vindicator reported thatthe GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark, New Jersey, is facing severe infrastructure failures and exposing detainees to dangerous conditions.
In early July 2026, as the worst heat wave in New Jersey …
by Jo Ellen Knott
The administration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) announced the permanent closure of the North Infirmary Command (NIC) on Rikers Island on June 29, 2026. The Department of Correction handed the building over to city managers, who plan to turn the old …
