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Transgender women are sometimes put in male prisons and then separated from the general prison population and put in “protective custody,” which functions in the same ways as solitary confinement, [2] and in fact transgender inmates are sometimes put into segregation facilities that have worse conditions than the ones that cisgender inmates ...
Family members of inmates at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center told the media and Richland County Council about the conditions that their loved ones experience inside the troubled jail.
A cell dog is a rescue dog that is being housed with a prison inmate, with the goal of improving the lives of both. These dogs are placed through a collaboration between the prison and an animal shelter. The inmates attempt to make the dog "adoptable" through obedience training, learning the skills of
Additionally, women in prison with their children are entitled to “improved living conditions, specialised medical services, and more rations and clothing”. [44] As for the women that do not have children, they face overcrowded conditions and inadequate medical care.
The three women from the church’s Justice Committee were the second group to come to the commissioners court with concerns about the jail. Reports in the Star-Telegram on jail deaths and data ...
On a formerly blank, eggshell white wall at Barnstable County Correctional Facility, the scene of a lush landscape spans about 20-feet left to right.
The Estelle case radically changed the legal avenues for advocating for better prison healthcare. Now, medical care is the most common issue involved in litigation on prisons. [120] Various cases in the area of women's healthcare in prison have made strides in strengthening the legal grounds for better care, such as Newsome v.
Instead of providing medical care to an ailing 60-year-old woman, jail staff in Alabama ignored her worsening illness and released her when she was too sick to recover, according to a new federal ...