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Harold W. Meade was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who bludgeoned three mentally disabled individuals to death on August 12, 1970, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was later arrested in December of the same year, and pleaded guilty to the murders in 1972.
Sterilization in the United States prison system dates back to the same origins as compulsory sterilization of developmentally disabled people. In the 1907 sterilization law passed by Indiana governor Frank J. Hanly, sterilization was made mandatory for "criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles in state custody". [ 4 ]
A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in his disabled brother's starvation death was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison by a judge who said the defendant is “one step away from ...
The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as “a possible victim of a crime,” the agency said in a document reviewed ...
The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from Yuba County, California, United States, each with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who were reported missing after attending a college basketball game at California State University, Chico (also known as Chico State), on the night of February 24, 1978. [1]
A pair of civil rights groups sued the New York state correctional system Tuesday over what they describe as a failure to eliminate the use of solitary confinement against disabled people, in ...
Young offenders are “much more reactive,” said Bob Houston, the former director of the Nebraska corrections system. “They don’t think things through like adults.” Juvenile justice experts say that a better way to handle misbehaving young inmates is through a positive incentive program, where kids lose points if they act out.
As of 2017, Jessica Lynas was being held at HM Prison Foston Hall. [7] The torture and murder of Hayter, who was disabled and had a suspected learning disability, bears a resemblance to the case of Jennifer Daugherty, a disabled American woman who was tortured and murdered in a similar manner in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in February 2010. Whilst ...