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    Prison Protest Is Now Part Of Shadowproof

  • NYC City Council Speaker Mark-Viverito talks with Mayor De Blasio

    New York City Council Proposes Taxpayers Bail Some Inmates Out of Jails

  • New York City Department of Correction's Tank

    New York City Enters Settlement With Feds Over Rikers Island Brutality

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    Excited Delirium, the Use of Force and the Death of Natasha McKenna

  • New York City Department of Correction's Tank

    Against Reform: Beyond Rikers Island

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Rikers Island
April 30, 2015 29

New York City Council Introduces 10 Bills to Reform Rikers Island

Update: A few thoughts on this reform package. This week, New York City Council members introduced 10 bills outlining various reforms to the [Continue reading]
  • Natasha McKenna
    April 30, 2015

    Medical Examiner Says Mentally Ill Inmate Natasha McKenna Died of Excited Delirium

  • Screentshot from No Sanctuary: Big Business and Family Detention (GrassrootsLeadership.org)
    April 29, 2015

    Protest May 2nd to #EndFamilyDetention in Dilley, Texas

  • April 23, 2015

    Corizon Health Staff on Rikers Island File Federal Labor Complaint Over Dangerous Work Environment

  • Screenshot from "Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill (1/2)" by Democracy NOW! on YouTube.
    April 5, 2015

    Report: Rikers Island Health Staff Shouldn’t Participate in Solitary Confinement Placement Process

Rikers Island

Screenshot from "Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill (1/2)" by Democracy NOW! on YouTube.
April 5, 2015 6

Report: Rikers Island Health Staff Shouldn’t Participate in Solitary Confinement Placement Process

The Associated Press got a sneak preview of a new study that found the medical ethics of healthcare workers [Continue reading]
  • Rikers Island reform roundtable
    March 30, 2015

    New solitary confinement unit plagued by old problems on Rikers Island

  • nyc-corrections-rikers
    March 19, 2015

    NYC DOC withholding records on violence against developmentally disabled juvenile inmate: lawsuit

  • Rikers Island
    February 16, 2015

    New wrongful death lawsuit raises more questions about coming Rikers Island reforms

  • Bradley Ballard
    January 27, 2015

    Report: Corizon’s “flagrantly inadequate, substandard and dangerous” care killed Rikers inmate Bradley Ballard

Privatization

April 23, 2015 6

Corizon Health Staff on Rikers Island File Federal Labor Complaint Over Dangerous Work Environment

According to the NY Daily News, a group of medical staffers from New York City jail medical contractor [Continue reading]
  • “[D]uring this [time], no mother will work in the detention center, nor will we send our children to school, not will we use any services here, until we are heard and approved: we want our FREEDOM.” Originally published at Colorlines.com.
    April 3, 2015

    Undocumented mothers put in solitary after 78 launch hunger strike at private prison

  • PrimeCare Medical Inc.
    April 1, 2015

    Lawsuits highlight multiple inmate deaths under private contractor in Pennsylvania

  • ach
    March 13, 2015

    Private contractor deliberately ignored medical needs of Kentucky inmate: lawsuit

  • aramark-maggots
    February 14, 2015

    Ohio quietly recommends new contract with troubled private food contractor Aramark

Inmate Healthcare

Rikers Island reform roundtable
March 30, 2015 5

New solitary confinement unit plagued by old problems on Rikers Island

At the beginning of March, New York City’s Board of Correction released a preliminary report on Rikers [Continue reading]
  • nyc-corrections-rikers
    March 19, 2015

    NYC DOC withholding records on violence against developmentally disabled juvenile inmate: lawsuit

  • ach
    March 13, 2015

    Private contractor deliberately ignored medical needs of Kentucky inmate: lawsuit

  • Corizon
    March 5, 2015

    Lawsuit: Corizon doctor tells New York City inmate to throw severed finger in trash can

  • ritmo-protest
    February 25, 2015

    Thousands of immigrant prisoners moved to undisclosed locations after protesting conditions

Immigrant Detention

people-behind-chain-link1
October 28, 2014 41

Prison News Round-up for Oct. 28, 2014

There are far too many stories out there that I want to write about, but I just don’t have the time to [Continue reading]
  • Arizona Attorney General Debate
    October 1, 2014

    CCA is on Both Sides of the Arizona Attorney General Race

  • NEOCC
    September 1, 2014

    Peaceful Inmate Protest Highlights Dysfunction and Disservice of CCA’s Ohio Private Immigrant Prison

  • Rep. Hagan
    August 29, 2014

    State Rep. Hagan Tours Ohio Private Immigrant Prison After Nearly 250 Inmates Protest Conditions and Treatment

  • NEOCC
    August 22, 2014

    Peaceful Inmate Protest Met with ‘Show of Force’ at Private Immigrant Prison in Ohio

Juvenile Detention

February 12, 2015 5

In New York City, ending youth solitary confinement comes with a complicated price tag

Under Mayor de Blasio’s new preliminary budget, 282 correction officers would be brought on to oversee [Continue reading]
  • solitary is torture jailsaction by @aintacrow on twitter
    January 16, 2015

    NYC’s new rules for solitary are not the reforms we’ve been looking for

  • Tweet by Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)
    January 13, 2015

    UPDATED: NYC Board of Corrections Approves New Rules for Solitary Confinement, ESHU

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    January 11, 2015

    NYC Doubles Down on Solitary Confinement with Latest Rikers “Reforms”

  • How much will Rikers reform help mentally ill prisoners?
    January 8, 2015

    Rikers Island Reform: the Good, the Bad and the Omitted

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  • Idaho Officials: Missing Inmate Medical Records and $100k Drug Shortage Plagues Private Prison Transition
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  • Corizon Health Services could (and should) lose its $1.2 billion contract with Florida
    Corizon Health Services could (and should) lose its $1.2 billion contract with Florida
  • Ohio quietly recommends new contract with troubled private food contractor Aramark
    Ohio quietly recommends new contract with troubled private food contractor Aramark
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