Tony Mitchell's death was a "direct and proximate result" of jail officers' "deliberate indifference or malice, and of their ongoing denial of Tony's constitutional rights under a scheme that continued to operate after his death," his family's suit states.
Prison staff were fired in less than half of substantiated incidents of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018, and only faced legal consequences in 6 percent of cases.
"Comprehensive and accurate records are critical if patterns and causes of harm are going to be identified and corrected," said an attorney representing Louisiana inmates.
"There is an obligation both to incarcerated persons and the taxpayers not to keep someone incarcerated for longer than they should be," a Louisiana district attorney said. "Timely release is not only a legal obligation, but arguably of equal importance, a moral obligation."
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," said one 18-year-old who was wrongfully incarcerated for 166 days.
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"When it comes to problems happening in America, [the NBA is] the first organization saying, 'This is wrong,'" says the former professional basketball player. But then they're silent for victims of torture.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
A Government Accountability Office report last year documented hundreds of ICE actions involving potential U.S. citizens.
That guard would later be convicted of sexually assaulting four other incarcerated women.
The debate over bail has become a polarizing flash point. But as usual, the answer is more nuanced than either Republicans or Democrats would have their bases believe.
It’s a little thing, but thousands of people end up in jail over these types of avoidable technical violations.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
Norma Thornton of Bullhead City, Arizona, is suing for the right to help people in need.
Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?
Craig Ridley died after corrections officers paralyzed him in a beating then left him without medical care for days.
"I never thought this could happen in this country," Gregory Hahn said.
A federal judge wrote that the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of medical delays that resulted in a man dying from treatable cancer.
No, a big storm does not require big government.
The report says the inaccuracies "deprived Congress and the American public of information about who is dying in custody and why."
Brittany Martin, who is pregnant, was sentenced to four years in prison after telling police they'd "better be ready to die for the blue. I'm ready to die for the black."
While a new report highlights Mississippi's jailing of mentally ill people, the practice is common nationwide.
"This is inhumane," one child told state inspectors.
Pregnant and postpartum women arrested on minor drug charges can find themselves locked up for months in Etowah County.
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While the task force is a move in the right direction, truancy shouldn't be up for criminal prosecution in the first place.
The lawsuit claims that a correctional officer gave male inmates the key to women's housing after accepting a $1,000 bribe.
The initial decision to pursue prosecution runs contrary to the campaign promises of Alvin Bragg, who claims to understand that, so often, the process is the punishment.
The felony murder rule continues to criminalize people for killing people they didn't actually kill.
Alvin Bragg campaigned on "ending mass incarceration." But that promise apparently does not apply to Jose Alba.
The case of Jose Alba reminds us that progressive prosecutors don't always apply their principles when they're inconvenient.
Climate protesters who blocked an interstate outside D.C. likely cost a man his parole.
Just a week ago, New York City convinced a federal judge not to seize control of the jail.
Michael Lowe is suing the company in Texas, saying its negligence led to a life-changing ordeal.
A new report shows wrongfully convicted people serving 1,849 years behind bars across the United States before being released last year.
Bail reforms did not lead to higher crime, and in fact should be applied more uniformly, report finds.
Inmates with opioid addiction suffered severe withdrawal after the Jefferson County Correctional Facility stripped them of their medication.
A new report emphasizes that the U.S. would still have a very high incarceration rate even if all drug war prisoners were released.
The California State Auditor's Office found that the jails responded poorly to inmate deaths.
