by Jo Ellen Nott
The question must be asked: How did one detainee dig a tunnel to another’s cell – via a shower area, no less – to attack him? Did no guard notice an impromptu construction project was happening on his or her watch? Happen it did though, at ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Amid a record-breaking surge of migrants at the southern U.S. border, eight-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez, a medically fragile Honduran child, died in a hospital near Harlingen Station in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley on May 17, 2023,
The day after her family crossed the border at ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A long-term civil detainee in Chicago’s Cook County Jail – the only one, in fact – is facing charges of aggravated battery of a guard, although body camera footage of the October 2022 incident contradicts a guard’s version of events used to secure the indictment.
A ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
At an emergency hearing on April 26, 2023, the South Carolina Supreme Court found a legal rationale to countermand the release of a convicted killer 16 years before the end of his sentence.
A clandestine deal freed Jeroid Price in March 2023, reportedly in reward for ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A Texas prisoner says she was punished for sharing abortion information with fellow prisoners at the Lane Murray Unit in April 2023.
Kwaneta Yatrice Harris, 50, is serving a sentence for her boyfriend’s 2006 murder, as well as a subsequent scam to rob his family of ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
After an otherwise healthy 32-year-old succumbed to testicular cancer at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail in January 2023, the Director of the county Medical Examiner’s Office accused Sheriff Levon Allen of withholding documents needed in the death investigation.
“When you don’t get all sides of the story ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A lawsuit filed on April 12, 2023, accuses the jail in Indiana’s Jackson County of deliberate indifference to the serious medical need of a detainee who had been held in solitary confinement for 20 days when he died of “multiple organ failure due to refusal to ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A civil rights complaint filed by attorney Mallory Gagon of the New Mexico Prison and Jail Project in April 2023 alleges that five Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility guards, two of them with rank, entered the cell of prisoner Carl Berry and “sexually abused him, threw ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On January 4, 2023, Jody Greene (R) resigned as Sheriff of North Carolina’s Columbus County – for the second time in just over two months. First elected in 2018, he had earlier resigned in October 2022 to avoid being removed from office, after he was caught ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On January 10, 2023, WMTW in Portland reported findings from a months-long investigation of deaths in Maine’s prisons and jails. By comparing information from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with data collected by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ), investigators found 39 deaths – 10 ...
