Federal judge orders NY to give mentally ill inmates more out-of-cell time

Federal judge orders NY to give mentally ill inmates more out-of-cell time in response to lawsuit filed by two advocacy ...

Inmate deaths raise questions about millions of dollars in NY state spending on body-worn cameras

"If utilized effectively, body-worn cameras can repudiate inmates’ false accusations against staff or frivolous civil ...

Family demanding answers after inmate’s decaying body found in Georgia prison

Sheqweetta Vaughan, 32, was pronounced dead at Lee Arrendale State Prison on July 9, when it was 90 degrees in her cellblock.
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Inmates, staff hospitalized after exposure at Fishkill Correctional Facility

One incarcerated person and 14 staff members in the Fishkill Correctional Facility were hospitalized Monday and Tuesday after being exposed to an "unknown substance," state Department of Corrections ...
Poughkeepsie Journal on MSN

Six inmates, 10 staffers at Fishkill Correctional sick from exposure to substance

An investigation is continuing at Fishkill Correctional Facility into what made inmates and staffers sick Sept. 15.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Inmates break locks at Fulton jail because there's lack of supervision, officials say

The day after a contractor repaired 11 cell doors in the Fulton County jail, seven of them had been damaged again and inmates told the contractor they would keep breaking them, the county’s director ...
Charlotte Observer

She was left alone too long in Rowan jail. It took a tipster to unlock the truth.

Rachel Anne Banks was held in Rowan County jail for less than a week when deputies arrived at her mother’s house on the outskirts of Salisbury to deliver devastating news. Officers found her daughter ...

6 inmates, 13 staffers sickened after exposure at Fishkill Correctional Facility

Investigators have not determined the source of the “unknown substance” or what caused the outbreak at Fishkill Correctional ...