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Minors
Access to legal rights
Activities
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New court filings say that the city is violating an eight-year-old court order mandating access to education for people under 22.
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Facilities
Alternatives
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Gov. Gavin Newsom went far beyond the promise he made in his first year in office to close at least one California state prison. But now, he is resisting calls from criminal justice advocates and liberal state lawmakers to shutter five more penitentiaries.
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A pair of lawsuits filed this month claim that two county jails in Michigan banned in-person family visits for inmates several years ago as a way to boost county revenues from the increased number of phone calls and electronic messaging that resulted.
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Women
Torture
Violence
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Despite highly publicized arrests and promises of change, sexual abuse and retaliation continue at the prison in Dublin, California.
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Access to legal rights
Health
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Mississippi prison health care contractors withheld cancer diagnosis and treatment for years, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges.
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Health
Material conditions
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Decarceration advocates are fighting to free older inmates as temperatures soar to deadlier heights.
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Justice
Health
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Antonio Arnez Smith was granted medical furlough in September but was not released to his family until October. He died four days later.
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Material conditions
Facilities
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Additional inmate housing units and an outdoor recreation area along with access to Native American religious leaders must be implemented as part of a settlement with dozens of inmates.
United States: private equity is using prison phone, food and health systems to rack up profits
News
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Material conditions
Facilities
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Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.
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Long-term prisoners
Activities
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We’re all too willing to argue about the inhumanity of executions. What about those of us who are still alive?
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Justice
Material conditions
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A tentative settlement in the amount of $4 million was presented on Thursday with regard to a class action lawsuit alleging inhumane living conditions and unethical treatment incurred by inmates at Southern Regional Jail.
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Health
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Democratic lawmakers are introducing a package of legislation that they say will counter inhumane conditions in Wisconsin’s prisons and county jails.