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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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The lawsuit, led by the Legal Aid Society of New York City and Disability Rights Advocates, alleges that officials in the state prison system have systemically excluded certain disabilities from ...
Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population. (Jails are short-term holding facilities in which many inmates have not been convicted; our study does not include deaths in prison.)
Zahra Clare Baker (November 16, 1999 – September 24, 2010) was a schoolgirl in Hickory, North Carolina, United States, who was reported missing on October 9, 2010.Only 10 years old at the time of her death, her dismembered remains were found in November 2010.