Another death occurred at the Allegheny County Jail last month, the 20th death since April 2020. The absence of health care staff is a major reason why the rate of death at our jail is so high. There ...
The Monroe County Jail staff have been letting people out on electronic monitoring for a while now to reduce jail overcrowding. It would be interesting to see what offenses people have committed that ...
Re: “8 fentanyl overdoses reported in February” (Page B1, March 22). It is very sad but no wonder that Santa Rita Jail had so many fentanyl overdoses in February. As noted by the 2021-22 Alameda ...
In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned what many consider “one of the greatest documents ever written by an American.” King came across an article in the ...
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Chief jailer sends letter to commission for emergency funding over ‘historically’ overcrowded jail
In a October 17 letter to Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell, Jr., Chief Jailer Kirk Fields outlined the challenges, ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — It’s a new war on drugs inside ...
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