by Daniel A. Rosen
An investigation conducted by the Mountain West News Bureau and NPR recently found that at least 19 men and women have died in the past five years in tribal jails overseen by the Interior Department, among other serious problems in the detention centers.
The Bureau of ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently ordered two civil immigration detention facilities closed and terminated the contracts for both. DHS said the Carreiro Detention Center in Bristol County, Massachusetts and the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia were “no longer operationally necessary,” according to ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
Throughout the pandemic, The Marshall Project (TMP) has done thorough and comprehensive reporting about the impact of COVID in prisons and on prisoners. Staff writers Joseph Neff and Keri Blakinger recently looked at the statistics on compassionate release for federal prisoners during the pandemic and came ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
An Alabama judge recently ruled on a legal challenge seeking to block Governor Kay Ivey’s plan to lease three new privately-built mega-prisons in the state, siding with the Governor. Republican State Auditor Jim Ziegler and others had sued to block the leases, claiming they were an ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
Illinois has become the first state in the country to completely eliminate the use of cash bail. The bill signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker in February 2021 was the result of a multi-year effort by over 100 reform organizations, legislators, and the House Legislative Black Caucus ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
In the most comprehensive accounting to date of California’s pretrial detention population, a recent CalMatters investigation found 8,600 prisoners who had been jailed for more than a year, and 1,300 jailed longer than three years without being tried or sentenced. More than a quarter of those ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
At jails, prisons, and detention centers across Louisiana, in-custody deaths are not always made public. The state does not require officials to report on deaths behind bars, unlike many other states.
As a result of this knowledge gap, the Loyola University law school has undertaken an ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
A sheriff’s deputy in California is suspected of burning a mental health prisoner with hot water to gain compliance, according to a statement released by authorities in Orange County.
Twenty days after the incident in April, 2021, the Sheriff’s department submitted the case to the county’s ...
Connecticut made history on June 16, 2020, when Governor Lamont signed Senate Bill 972, making the state the first in the country where prison phone calls will be free for all prisoners and their families, including incarcerated youth. The state Senate and House fully funded the bipartisan bill, allocating $11.2 ...
by Daniel A. Rosen
Does more fresh air, sunlight, and space for rehabilitative programs mean a prison or jail is more humane? That’s the question many architects are struggling with as expensive new facilities are built around the country.
Architecture and design may be able to play a key role ...
