Lawyers for California corrections officials are balking at the release of a secret report prepared by the prison system’s top psychiatrist that accuses the state of providing misleading and inaccurate information to a federal judge and attorneys for more than 30,000 inmates, the Sacramento Bee...
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“I still can’t keep anything down and my throat is still hurting me,” Jennifer Addison, 44, wrote March 6 on an emergency grievance form in the Virginia Correctional Center for Women. “I need some help please.” Two days later, she was dead. She had been...
A study of 15 states’ prison records found women are disciplined up to three times more often than men, and that discipline is often harsher and for smaller infractions of prison rules, reports NPR in collaboration with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University....
In April, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told federal prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border “to adopt immediately a zero-tolerance policy” for violations of a federal law barring “improper entry” into the U.S. Over the next six weeks, 2,654 children were taken from their parents or guardians...
The Trump administration, after threatening to withhold funds for Seattle in retaliation for the city’s immigration policies, has agreed to hand over the money, says Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes. Seattle and nearby jurisdictions have been approved for $657,975 in Justice Assistance...