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The Crisis of Conditions in America's Jails and Prisons | FAMM |

Prisons and jails operate as fiefdoms that answer to no one and can easily cover up wrongdoing. Incarcerated people, their families, and ...

The Growing Jail Crisis in Rural America - Coalition on Human Needs

Since 2013, large metropolitan areas saw a jail capacity reduction of 18 percent. However, rural counties increased their jail capacity by 27 percent and small ...

The federal prison system is in crisis. Here are the top 3 reasons why.

Inadequate staffing levels and high turnover rates compromise safety and security inside federal prisons, making it difficult to maintain proper ...

The Penitentiary in Crisis | State University of New York Press

The 1980 riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico was one of the worst riots in prison history. Thirty-three inmates were killed and hundreds were injured.

Prison overcrowding - Penal Reform International

It is also arguably the biggest single problem facing prison systems and its consequences can at worst be life-threatening at best prevent prisons from ...

Congress Asked to Investigate Health Crisis in Prisons by Coalition ...

Congress Asked to Investigate Health Crisis in Prisons by Coalition of Civil Rights Organizations, Medical Practitioners, and Corrections Officials ... The ...

The public health crisis brewing behind bars

Correctional facilities are often unsanitary, violent, and lacking in adequate healthcare. Naturally, those in confinement are left with ...

Jailed in Crisis: Mental illness in America's Jails

It all started in August 2015 when Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, starved to death in the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Va., after being arrested for ...

Opinion: Jails cannot fix our mental health care crisis - NYN Media

Jails cannot fix our mental health care crisis. Here's a list of proven solutions that offer more effective results through community-based resources.

Two Years of COVID-19 Have Fueled a Crisis of Isolation in Prisons

Two Years of COVID-19 Have Fueled a Crisis of Isolation in Prisons ... Most incarcerated people in the United States were left behind bars in ...

The impact of the opioid crisis on U.S. state prison systems

Prior studies have documented limited use of medications to treat opioid use disorders (OUD) for people incarcerated within state prisons in ...

Cutting Jail & Prison Populations | Brennan Center for Justice

Why It Matters ... Mass incarceration is the civil rights crisis of our time. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population and nearly one- ...

The Need for Better Mental Health and Crisis Intervention in ... - AIHCP

It has allowed inmates and corrections officers to learn how to better handle crisis situations within the prison environment, while also ...

Crisis intervention in a correctional setting - Corrections1

... session: Originally developed from law enforcement, CIT training can help prevent a mental health crisis at your facility. August 10, 2011 04:54 PM.

Inside the crisis of the crumbling federal prison system - ABC7 News

Inside the crisis of the crumbling federal prison system ... The 123 federal prisons in the United States need roughly $2 billion worth of " ...

50 Years and a Wake Up - The Sentencing Project

Today, almost 2 million individuals – disproportionately Black Americans – are incarcerated in our nation's prisons and jails. The prison ...

Coronavirus Exposed a Pre-Existing Crisis in Prisons, Jails | TIME

Our country's prisons and jails are overcrowded and fail to provide humane conditions—and these problems will not end when the coronavirus ...

Crisis De-escalation Training in a Jail Setting

This training focuses on best-practices for psychiatric de-escalation in jails. • Jail staff need to know their role and responsibilities in crisis de-.

Covid-19 in US jails and prisons: implications for the next public ...

Reporting of covid-19 data during the pandemic made public the breadth and depth of the crisis of mass incarceration in US prison systems · Most ...

Overcoming America's Aging Prison Crisis - CGL Companies

A closer look is taken at how America has reached a crisis point with its aging correctional facilities, the breadth of today's outmoded prisons and the cost ...