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NY's correctional system must embrace reforms to solitary confinement policy
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoRecently, I accompanied the Correctional Association of New York on a monitoring visit to Fishkill...
Bill to restrict solitary confinement in California stalls out in Sacramento
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAssemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) agreed to hold a bill to limit solitary confinement in...
Jack Whalen heads home without commitment to end statute of limitations for abuse claims
CBC via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoJack Whalen was honoured this week to sit in the public gallery of the House of Assembly and hear...
Meth addiction is rising in northern Michigan communities. Here's why.
Petoskey News Review via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen 50-year-old meth addict Brian Groh was sentenced to jail last month, he went through a severe...
In months leading up to Waupun prison suicide, staff failed to give prisoner vital medications,...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn the two and a half months before Dean Hoffmann died by suicide at Waupun Correctional...
Ukraine admits besieged town is ‘critical’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFive Russian spies found working in the Ukrainian secret service - @ServiceSsu/X Russia’s attempt to capture the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka has reached a...
'He's greatly missed': 30-year-old who died at Waupun prison overdosed on fentanyl, leaving family...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe death of a man at Waupun Correctional Institution last October has been ruled an accidental drug...
‘Scarred for life’: 20 women sue over alleged sexual abuse at Waxter detention facility in Maryland
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOne female counselor in the 1990s would enter a specific girl’s cell in a juvenile detention center...
How incarceration affects your mental health: From higher risk of PTSD to loss of self-control
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIncarceration comes with a host of issues, from physical violence to emotional abuse, which can...
Black worms, expired milk, no class: NC teen details state lock up amid staffing crisis
Raleigh News and Observer via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSitting in his home, across the kitchen table from his mother, a 17-year-old mapped out the room...