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A county trying to reopen its economy wrestles with a virus outbreak in prison.
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Community groups have pointed out the social costs of the prison system for decades. Now the pandemic has exposed its public-health risks.
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Parole boards are granting parole contingent on participation in programs that are often not readily available for people behind bars, especially during the pandemic.
USA: en Floride, des milliers d’anciens détenus pourraient retrouver leur droit de vote
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The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.
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COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in U.S. jails and prisons, but testing of inmates and staff remains spotty and many confirmed cases are going unreported. The resulting lack of data has deep implications for the fight against the virus, because prison outbreaks can move easily to surrounding communiti…
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Prisoners and advocates told the Guardian that some infected inmates are in isolation without medical care or adequate food, cut off from family and attorneys
USA: a nation of prisons and pandemics
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The United States Penitentiary Canaan holds about 1,300 people. Qwantay A. is one of them. He has been incarcerated for 16 years and will be released in 2034. He drew some parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and mass incarceration, and shared his thoughts with Prison Insider.
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Nonprofit pregnancy support organizations help strengthen bonds between incarcerated women and their newborn children.
USA: Kim Kardashian est devenue une actrice-clé de la réforme carcérale
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USA: le Missouri va mener une exécution avec distanciation sociale
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work. Sometimes they earn pennies an hour, or nothing at all, making masks and hand sanitizer to help guard others from the coronavirus.
Those same men and…
USA: el coronavirus se ensaña con las cárceles
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“I just feel like we were all let down,” said one prisoner. At least 39 staff and 113 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a staff source.
Alfred Reece says the outbreak began when his teacher got sick.
A former accountant serving an 8-year sentence for convictions related…
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Our analysis finds that jails are responding to the unprecedented public health crisis by rapidly dropping their populations. In contrast, state prisons have barely budged.
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The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named after the slave plantation that existed on that land where the prison now stands. Columbia University explains that the plantation took its name from the nation its slaves were taken from: Angola. In 1880, former Confederate Major Samuel James purchased the…
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WASHINGTON — Inmates at New Jersey’s only state prison for women were regularly sexually assaulted by guards and sometimes forced to engage in sex acts with other prisoners while staff members looked on, according to a Justice Department report released on Monday detailing widespread, pervasive sex…
USA: el miedo al coronavirus en las cárceles provoca huelgas de hambre, protestas y motines
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USA: la détresse des détenus libérés en pleine pandémie
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Social distancing is pressing officials across the country to skip traditional methods such as jailing people for “technical violations” like missing check-ins.
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The short answer is no - social distancing is even harder behind bars than in nursing homes or on cruise ships.
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Absent immediate action, COVID-19 will overrun Connecticut’s jails and prisons. Connecticut’s Department of Correction has now confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the prison population after announcing that three DOC officers tested positive for the virus last week.
This affects us all and the…