Supreme Court orders California to release convicts to afford health care for those remaining prisoners
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to cut the prison population, California holds 136,000 inmates as of 2014 per CDCR report. Of the 2013-2014 budget, 7% was spent on corrections and was set to rise More...
Prison worker Joyce Mitchell charged with helping Richard Matt, David Sweat escape
A supervisor at the Clinton Correctional Facility charged on Friday for her role in escape of David Sweat and Richard Matt as authorites announce Monday that te manhunt expands. Joyce Mitchell was arrested for allegedly More...
New report from Ireland: 45 rescued from human trafficking ring
Forty-five victims of human trafficking were rescued in Northern Ireland, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA). The new report, released on Monday, indicates that they were subjected to domestic servitude, More...
Letter to the Editor: HIV-infected women released from jail have worse HIV treatment outcomes than men, according to Yale study
In response to an interview I had with the lead author of the study, “Gender Disparities in HIV Treatment Outcomes Following Release From Jail: Results From a Multicenter Study”, Jaimie P. Meyer, MD, More...
