Washington Post: Sanders to push a plan to ban private ...
By John Wagner September 17 at 6:47 AM “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil a plan Thursday to ban privately run jails and prisons, which he says have a “perverse incentive” to increase the number of incarcerated people in the ...
Buzzfeed: The Prison Guard Who Couldn’t Escape Prison
Albert Samaha | BuzzFeed News Reporter Scott Jones loved being a correctional officer at California’s High Desert State Prison. Then he saw his colleagues commit enough abuses that he saw no choice but to break the code of silence, turning himself ...
New York Times: A Psychologist as Warden?
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMSJULY 30, 2015 “Jail and Mental Illness Intersect in Chicago” – “A new warden at Cook County Jail in Chicago is looking for ways to treat an influx of mentally ill inmates. Her hiring comes at a time ...