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Biden’s Low Profile on Guantanamo Rankles as Prison Turns 20
Associated Press - Sun Jan 16, 2022
Advocates for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center were optimistic when President Joe Biden took office. More»

Alabama inmate who survived execution attempt dies of cancer
Associated Press - Mon Nov 29, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — An Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted because medical staff couldn’t find a suitable vein for the execution has died of natural causes almost four years later, his lawyer said Monday. More»

Arkansas Inmates Not Told They Were Given Anti-Parasite Drug
Associated Press - Sun Sep 5, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Several inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail said they werent told a medication they were given to treat COVID-19 was actually an anti-parasite drug that federal health officials have warned should not be used to treat the coronavirus. More»

Crowded border facilities where detainees are forced to sleep in toilet stalls violate the Constitution, judge rules
CNN - Thu Feb 20, 2020
A federal judge in Arizona ruled Wednesday that conditions in US Customs and Border Protection migrant holding cells in the agencys Tucson sector violated the Constitution. More»

Disturbing Video Shows Mother-of-five in a Jail Cell Hours Before She 'died of starvation'
Daily Mail - Wed Feb 12, 2020
Disturbing surveillance footage has emerged showing a mother-of-fives final hours after she was locked up in a Washington state jail for four days when her husband called 911 for help while she suffered a mental health episode. More»

Prison workers ignore dying inmate's calls for help in harrowing video from Oklahoma jail
The Independent - Mon Feb 10, 2020
Surveillance video from inside an Oklahoma jail shows staff ignoring a man pleading for his life in the moments before he died from sepsis and pneumonia two weeks after he turned himself in. More»

Video shows disoriented migrant boy's death inside Border Patrol cell
CBS News - Fri Dec 6, 2019
Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez was in visible pain and disoriented when he collapsed near the toilet in his concrete cell around 1:36 am one day last May. More»

Sheriffs Release Sick People From Jail to Avoid Paying Hospital Bills, then re-arrest them
Truthout - Wed Oct 2, 2019
Michael Tidwell’s blood sugar reading was at least 15 times his normal level when sheriff’s deputies took him to the hospital. More»

Trump Pushes for Homeless American Citizens to be Relocated to Internment Camps
Common Dreams - Sat Sep 14, 2019
Following reports that President Donald Trump is pushing for a "major crackdown" on homelessness in California that could include destroying existing encampments and moving homeless people into government-backed facilities, state lawmakers and progressive housing advocates said the administrations proposed steps are cruel, politically motivated, and would do nothing to address the very real crisis Trump has exacerbated. More»

Inhumane Conditions at US Immigration Detention Centers
Daily Mail - Sat Aug 31, 2019
Menstruating migrants girls being held at detention centers near the US-Mexico border are visibly bleeding through their pants and are forced to wear their soiled clothes, according to a new lawsuit. More»

Woman forced to give birth alone in Denver jail cell with no medical treatment
KDVR-TV - Thu Aug 29, 2019
DENVER, Colorado - A woman is suing the city and county of Denver, Denver Health Medical Center and six individuals after she said she was forced to deliver a baby alone on a bench in a jail cell at the Denver County Jail. More»

FBI studies two broken cameras outside cell where Epstein died
Reuters - Thu Aug 29, 2019
Two cameras that malfunctioned outside the jail cell where financier Jeffrey Epstein died as he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges have been sent to an FBI crime lab for examination, a law enforcement source told Reuters. More»

FBI and DoJ launch investigations into Jeffrey Epstein's death
The Guardian - Sun Aug 11, 2019
Fallout from the death by apparent suicide of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in a New York City jail cell intensified on Sunday, as authorities in three separate jurisdictions opened investigations into the death and alleged victims expressed outrage at not being able to confront Epstein in court. More»

Utah Jail Nurse Faces Negligent Homicide Charge in Death of 21-Year-Old Woman
The Appeal - Thu Aug 1, 2019
In 2016, Madison Jensen died from opiate withdrawal at the Duchesne County jail. More»

US citizen says he lost 26 pounds under 'inhumane' conditions at border facility in Texas
USA Today - Sun Jul 28, 2019
An 18-year-old US citizen from Dallas who was held for more than three weeks by U. More»

Children describe neglect at Texas border facility
Associated Press - Thu Jun 20, 2019
EL PASO, Texas -A 2-year-old boy locked in detention wants to be held all the time. More»

Are US child migrant detainees entitled to soap and beds?
BBC - Thu Jun 20, 2019
A Trump administration lawyer has disputed in court whether detained migrant children are entitled to toothbrushes and soap. More»

Mentally ill woman gave birth alone in isolated jail cell
Miami Herald - Sun May 5, 2019
A jailed and pregnant mentally ill woman was forced to deliver her child alone in an “isolation cell” last month as corrections officers ignored her cries for help, Broward County’s public defender charged on Friday. More»

Four prisoners dead in six weeks: the crisis unfolding in San Diego county jails
The Guardian - Wed Apr 17, 2019
On 18 March, Maria Palacios Escalera got a call from a doctor at the UC San Diego hospital in southern California. More»

Oklahoma sheriff and staff quit over unsafe jail
BBC - Wed Mar 20, 2019
An Oklahoma sheriff and all of her deputies have quit in protest of dangerous - possibly lethal - conditions at an old rural county jail. More»

California Passes Bill To Expunge Old Marijuana Convictions
Huffington Post - Tue Aug 28, 2018
California lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that provides a legal framework to wipe out previous marijuana convictions. More»

Border guards are sending BABIES and toddlers to 'tender age' immigrant detention centers after being separated from their mothers
Daily Mail - Tue Jun 19, 2018
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border to at least three tender age shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. More»

Fact-Checking Family Separation
ACLU - Mon Jun 18, 2018
With nearly 2,000 immigrant children separated from their parents in just six weeks alone, there is an unprecedented human rights disaster unfolding at our border. More»

Sessions: Building a wall will end family separations at border
New York Post - Sun Jun 17, 2018
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that Congress could end the practice of separating children from their parents at the border if lawmakers give President Donald Trump his wall and new immigration legislation. More»

Doctors Concerned About 'Irreparable Harm' To Separated Migrant Children
NPR - Sat Jun 16, 2018
In South Texas, pediatricians started sounding the alarm weeks ago as migrant shelters began filling up with younger children separated from their parents after they crossed the US-Mexico border illegally. More»

Trump Says Separation Of Families At Border Is A Negotiating Tool
CNN - Fri Jun 15, 2018
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he is using his administrations separation of families at the US border as a negotiating tool to get Democrats to cave on his immigration demands, which include funding for a border wall, curbing legal immigration into the US, and tightening the rules for border enforcement. More»

Sessions: Parents, children entering U.S. illegally will be separated
NBC - Mon May 7, 2018
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration plans to take a tougher approach to some families who enter the US illegally by separating parents from their children, instead of keeping them in detention together. More»

San Francisco To Dismiss Thousands Of Marijuana Convictions
NPR - Wed Jan 31, 2018
Prosecutors in San Francisco will throw out thousands of marijuana-related convictions of residents dating back to 1975. More»

Denied Painkillers, Paralyzed Prisoner Chews Own Fingers Off
Newsweek - Sat Jan 13, 2018
A paralyzed man held inside an Arizona prison chewed off three fingers on his left hand in a desperate attempt to receive treatment for "excruciating pain" from previous injuries, according to new court papers filed in a legal fight over private prison health care. More»

Defense attorney arrested after telling rape victim Trump would deport her if she testified
Raw Story - Wed May 24, 2017
A defense attorney in Baltimore has been arrested after he allegedly told a rape victim that the Trump administration would have her deported if she testified against his client. More»

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