by Kevin Bliss
Sheriff Scott Jones of Sacramento, California has been exposed for failing to report deaths at two Sacramento County jails. California Department of Justice records show that at least nine people died in the county jail in 2019 — the same as had died in the previous three ...
by Kevin Bliss
"In the last 10 years, Minnesota counties have paid out more than $10 million in settlements and legal fees following lawsuits accusing jails of providing inadequate to non-existent health care to inmates,” KARE 11 reported in a major investigative report on October 29, 2020.
One of the ...
by Kevin Bliss
The Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (Mahan) in Clinton, New Jersey is again headlining the news with 32 guards now under investigation for assault and sexual abuse. The Department of Justice had completed an investigation there last April 2020, finding the prison violated the prisoners’ rights ...
by Kevin Bliss
New York’s parole system is considered one of the nation’s worst, reincarcerating parolees at twice the national average, while parolees are the only segment of the state’s prison population that is still increasing. Reform advocates denounce the system as costly and harmful and call for the state ...
by Kevin Bliss
The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York was investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A report released November 10, 2020 stated that MDC was insufficiently prepared to cope with the pandemic ...
by Kevin Bliss
The fourth director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the man who developed the super maximum-security prison model, Norman Carlson, died August 9, 2020, in a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He was 86.
Carlson grew up in Sioux City, Iowa where he summered with a local ...
by Kevin Bliss
The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) stated that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency refused help controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in its detention centers, jeopardizing detainees’ lives and stonewalling efforts for intervention and information, as detailed in a September 10, 2020 story by Reveal ...
by Kevin Bliss
Colorado Governor Jared Polischanged the state’s coronavirus vaccination plan after Republican district attorney George Brauchler railed in a Denver paper op-ed that it was unfair for the state to inoculate someone like Nathan Dunlap, convicted of murdering four people at a Chuck E. Cheese in 1993, before ...
by Kevin Bliss
Developers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are remaking the Lorton Reformatory historical landmark into a suburban village. County officials are using the prime real estate just off I-95 with good roads to D.C. and a growing tech industry in northern Virginia to create a suburb utilizing much of ...
by Kevin Bliss
An outbreak of COVID-19 began September 29, 2020, at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in Fairfax County, Virginia, with eight staff and six juveniles testing positive over the next 10 days for the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. It was the worst outbreak in a juvenile ...
