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At an 8 a.m. daily meeting on the day of Ramirez’s death, Telfair State Prison Warden Andrew McFarlane ordered department heads to keep inmates hydrated, bring them ice and avoid leaving them ...
Before parts of Unit 29 were closed following a spate of inmate deaths and rioting in 2020, it held up to 1,500 prisoners, including death row inmates; the entire prison currently houses about ...
The prison is scheduled to get a new conditioning system soon, officials say. “A lot of the prisons have old air conditioning systems,” DAC spokesperson Keith Acree said. “And keeping them ...
On May 19, 2009, Powell was supposed to be moved to a psychiatric unit for observation on suicide watch.At 11:00 a.m., Powell was placed in an outdoor cage to await cell transfer, during which she was exposed to temperatures of 107 °F (42 °C) for a period of four hours; the transfer was delayed due to a "disturbance at the observation ward". [7]
In 2008, it was revealed that the U.S. military was detaining Iraqi prisoners in wooden crates, arousing concern of their use as hotboxes. [5] In 2009, Marcia Powell, a prisoner at Arizona State Prison Complex – Perryville, United States, died of heat exposure after being placed in an outdoor cage for four hours. [6]
Bayer, the former Nevada prison system director, helped design the High Desert facility in the mid-1990s. He maintained that the birdshot policy has persisted because it is effective, explaining that NDOC has to “do more with less.” But he also insisted that administrators are committed to the safety of both guards and prisoners.
The Texas prison system’s 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due to a series of drug-related inmate homicides, officials announced on Wednesday. During the lockdown, inmates will ...
Judges have imposed sentences of home confinement, as an alternative to prison, as far back as the 17th century. Galileo was confined to his home following his infamous trial in 1633. Authorities often used house arrest to confine political leaders who were deposed in a coup d'état, but this method was not widely used to confine numerous ...