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Prison guards used work assignments to lure and rape female inmates, shocking investigation finds
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Prison guards used work assignments to lure and rape female inmates, shocking investigation finds

Daily Mail  

Guards are using prison work assignments at correctional facilities across the United States to lure and rape female inmates, a shocking investigation by the Associated Press has found. Former inmate April Youst said that she was told to report to the work release center's laundry room at her facility, where she said correctional officer James Widen was waiting for her …

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In scramble to protect workers against heat, California officials exclude prisons from new rules
8 months ago

In scramble to protect workers against heat, California officials exclude prisons from new rules

LA Times  

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino have complained of excessive heat in the workplace. After last-minute objections from state officials thwarted plans to implement protections for workers in hot warehouses and other indoor facilities, California’s workplace safety agency is trying again to adopt the measures before the summer heat arrives. They raised concerns about the costs that California …

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Supreme Court agrees to examine issue of women inmates getting pregnant in West Bengal jails
10 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court agrees to examine issue of women inmates getting pregnant in West Bengal jails

Op India  

The Supreme Court on Monday, February 12, agreed to examine the matter of women inmates getting pregnant in correctional homes and jails across the state of West Bengal. Supreme Court to examine issue of prisoners getting pregnant in Bengal jails An estimated 196 babies were born in different correctional facilities across West Bengal, an advocate submitted at the Calcutta High …

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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

Associated Press  

— A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP …

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Prison food is a national crisis. Sustainable sourcing could be a solution
11 months, 1 week ago

Prison food is a national crisis. Sustainable sourcing could be a solution

Salon  

During the pandemic, many incarcerated individuals faced a harsh reality. These declines in size and quality of prison meals are not limited to Georgia: A 2020 report from the organization Impact Justice, titled “Eating Behind Bars,” identified food as “another form of daily punishment” in prison, noting that 94% of those surveyed “reported that they did not have enough food …

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New York's Incarcerated Need The Vaccine. Cuomo Isn't Giving It To Them.
3 years, 9 months ago

New York's Incarcerated Need The Vaccine. Cuomo Isn't Giving It To Them.

Huff Post  

A growing coalition of public health professionals and criminal justice advocates are calling on New York Gov. “The people in New York’s jails and prisons are overwhelmingly from Black and brown communities, and it’s a moral imperative that they have immediate access to the vaccine.” On Jan. 12, people 65 and older became eligible to be vaccinated, which in theory …

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He Got COVID In Prison. The Government Said He Was 'Recovered.' Then He Died.
3 years, 10 months ago

He Got COVID In Prison. The Government Said He Was 'Recovered.' Then He Died.

Huff Post  

Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photos: Getty When Joseph Lee Fultz arrived at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, in January to begin a 27-year sentence, the prison was fighting to contain a COVID-19 outbreak. “We are getting all kinds of different data points from lots of different systems, which makes it really hard to have an accurate picture of …

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7 prisoners with coronavirus died at San Quentin and hundreds more are dying in US jails and prisons
4 years, 5 months ago

7 prisoners with coronavirus died at San Quentin and hundreds more are dying in US jails and prisons

CNN  

Gavin Newsom is facing mounting pressure to release inmates as corrections officials scramble to contain outbreaks of coronavirus at state prisons. Nearly 100 people have died in Texas facilities Before the outbreak at San Quentin, the virus ravaged correctional facilities in central Ohio, Illlinois, Colorado and Texas, where at least 91 incarcerated people and nine staff members with Covid-19 have …

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