Prison USA

One of every 13 Georgia adults are in prison or on probation
Associated Press - Mon Mar 2, 2009
The number of people on parole and probation across the United States has surged past 5 million, and Georgia leads the way, according to a new report.. More»

Pentagon releases memo on harsh tactics
Associated Press - Mon Mar 31, 2008
The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bushs wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.. More»

Polish Euro MP Seeks Removal Of Name From CIA Prisons Report
AFP - Sun Jul 29, 2007
BRUSSELS - Polish socialist euro MP Marek Siwiec has brought court action in Poland demanding Swiss senator Dick Marty removes his name from a report about secret CIA prisons in Europe.. More»

Poor offenders pay price when probation turns on profit
The Tennesseean - Sun Apr 17, 2016
MURFREESBORO - Outside the $200-a-week motel room that Steven Gibbs and his family call home, the afternoon sun sparkles.. 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»

Records show US medical staff experimented on terror suspects
AFP - Sun Jun 6, 2010
WASHINGTON - Medical personnel apparently experimented on terror detainees during CIA-led torture after the September 11 attacks, aiming to improve interrogation techniques, a human rights group said Monday.. More»

Retired New York Judge Kills Himself as FBI Arrives on Doorstep of his Expensive Home
Daily Mail - Wed Sep 25, 2024
A former prosecutor and retired judge killed himself on Tuesday as the FBI arrived at his home in New York to arrest him.. 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»

Senate Fails on Habeas Corpus
The Nation - Tue Sep 18, 2007
Today the US Senate fell four votes short of restoring Habeas Corpus, the fundamental constitutional right of individuals to challenge government detention, which the Republican Congress revoked in last years Military Commissions Act.. 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»

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»

Sheriff indicted for forcing inmates to pay room & board
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Wed Nov 14, 2007
A south Georgia sheriff has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly forcing about 475 inmates to pay around $30,000 for room and board to stay in Clinch County Jail.. More»

Sheriff jailed for pocketing money meant for inmate meals
CNN - Thu Jan 8, 2009
ALABAMA - A federal judge ordered a north Alabama sheriff jailed this week, saying the lawman intentionally served jail inmates "woefully insufficient" meals in order to pocket more than $200,000.. 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»

Staff in boot camp case walk free
BBC - Sat Oct 13, 2007
Eight defendants have been acquitted of manslaughter in the case of a teenager who died after being punched and kicked at a Florida boot camp.. More»

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear CIA Kidnapping Allegation
CNN - Mon Oct 8, 2007
A German citizen who alleges the CIA mistakenly kidnapped, detained and interrogated him was denied a hearing before the US Supreme Court when the justices rejected his appeal for review Tuesday.. More»

Texas experimenting with secret execution drugs
Reuters - Thu Oct 3, 2013
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Three Texas death row inmates claim the state plans to execute them by experimenting with new drugs, never used for such a purpose, that were obtained under false pretenses, attorneys told Reuters on Wednesday.. More»

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'
The Guardian - Mon Feb 23, 2015
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.. 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»

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»

U.S. to seek death for 9/11 detainees
CNN - Mon Feb 11, 2008
Six men being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will go before military commissions and could face the death penalty if it is judged they were involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks, a general said Monday.. More»

US bands blast use of music in Guantanamo interrogations
AFP - Thu Oct 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - A group of top US acts including REM and Pearl Jam on Thursday expressed outrage that loud music was being blasted at Guantanamo detainees as part of "terror" interrogations.. 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»

US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantánamo, lawyer says
The Guardian, UK - Thu May 2, 2013
The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.. More»

US is 'the world's leading jailer'
AFP - Sat Jun 7, 2008
The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world and more than ever before in its history, Human Rights Watch said Friday.. More»

US knew Guantanamo detainees were innocent: WikiLeaks
AFP - Sun Apr 24, 2011
WASHINGTON - The United States held hundreds of inmates who were either totally innocent or low-risk for years and released dozens of high-risk Guantanamo inmates, according to leaked classified files.. More»

US orders medical care for jailed Pakistani scientist
AFP - Sun Aug 10, 2008
A US court on Monday ordered medical care for a Pakistani scientist said to be seriously sick since being shot last month in an alleged struggle with US officers in Afghanistan.. 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»

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»

What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons?
Time - Wed Oct 17, 2007
An uneasy sense of deja vu swept over Florida last week after an all-white jury acquitted seven juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a black teen last year.. More»

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