by Kevin Bliss
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) concluded a two-year investigation April 12, 2020 of allegations of continued sexual abuse against prisoners at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCFW). A 29-page report was published that found the institution promoted a culture ...
by Kevin Bliss
Richard “Sam” Schneiter, a 65-year-old Wisconsin deputy prison warden in charge of 14 minimum-security prisons, was fired in November 2019 after posting offensive memes on his Facebook account.
Schneiter posted two memes on Facebook last July, which were reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. One compared ...
by Kevin Bliss
An article in the Harvard Political Review by Jenna Bao published March 9, 2020, reported that the movement to deinstitutionalize mental health facilities and save costs, which began in the 1950s, has resulted in a large over-representation of the mentally ill in U.S. prisons and loss of ...
by Kevin Bliss
Even before he was found guilty in New York on two counts of rape on February 24, 2020, Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein hired a prison consultant – Craig Rothfeld, CEO of Inside Outside Ltd. – to teach him how to survive incarceration.
Weinstein, 67, joins a ...
by Kevin Bliss
Fine Cell Work is a London-based prison art initiative aimed at the possible rehabilitative and therapeutic value of creating works of art by the incarcerated. It works with prisoners throughout the United Kingdom, training them in the art of fine needlepoint.
The charity and social enterprise has ...
by Kevin Bliss
According to the latest surveys, the national female prison population is increasing more rapidly than males — and Kansas is one of the leading contributors to this trend.
A report put out by the Prison Policy Initiative and the American Civil Liberties Campaign for Smart Justice in ...
by Kevin Bliss
On January 14, 2020, Judge Margaret Seymour of the Florence division of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina signed preliminary approval of a settlement order granting hepatitis-C (HCV) testing and treatment in the South Carolina prison system.
“This action today is going to save 1,184 lives,” ...
by Kevin Bliss
In March 2020, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it would transfer guard Jermaine Darden to Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Fort Dix, where he will serve as the emergency preparedness officer for the low-security federal prison in Burlington County, New Jersey.
Darden, 48, was a jail captain ...
by Kevin W. Bliss
Sex offenders who had completed their criminal sentences in the state of New Jersey were being civilly committed to a facility that had a higher death rate due to COVID-19 than any prison in the United States as of early June.
The Sexually Violent Predator Act ...
by Kevin Bliss
Arkansas’ Cummins Unit prison facility had 11 confirmed deaths due to coronavirus as of June 9, 2020. Families were concerned over a lack of communication and delayed notification from the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADOC), often not knowing their loved ones lives were in danger until it ...
