Rounding up recent disheartening stories in incarceration nation
In recent days, I have seen a number of notable stories and commentaries focused on various discouraging incarceration realities in US prisons and jails:
From The Marshall Project, “Why So Many Jails Are in a ‘State of Complete Meltdown’“
From NBC News, “Tech glitch botches federal prisons’ rollout of update to Trump-era First Step Act“
From the New York Post, “Rikers Island detainee is 18th person to die in NYC’s prison system in 2022“
From the New York Times, “‘Dying Inside’: Chaos and Cruelty In Louisiana Juvenile Detention“
From the Omaha World Herald, “‘Waiting on death’: Nebraska prisoners are getting older, and it’s costing taxpayers“
From PennLive, “Sick people in Pa. jails are suffering, dying: ‘The Constitution allows for medical neglect’“
From the Reno Gazette-Journal, “Inmate deaths, drug overdoses on rise at Washoe County Jail“
From Washington Monthly, “Do Prisons Need to Be Hellholes?“
From WSB-TV, “Reality star Joe Exotic says zoo has better living conditions than Atlanta Federal Penitentiary“