First seen in The Des. People who get locked up are more likely to be dealing with chronic health issues and less likely to receive care than the general population. Being incarcerated also creates additional […]
Category: criminal justice
Overdose Deaths Behind Bars Rise as Drug Crisis Swells
First seen in PBS NewsHour and KHN. Annissa Holland should be excited her son is coming home from prison after four long years of incarceration. Instead, she’s researching rehab centers to send him to as […]
New report debunks 2020 youth crime wave
First seen in The Des. Almost a year ago, a carjacking left The District of Columbia aghast. Mohammad Anwar, died in the hospital after he was hit with a stun gun and crashed his car while […]
Fighting for a second chance
First seen in The Des. When Dontrell Britton returned from federal prison to his mother’s DC apartment in 2017, he didn’t have tens of thousands of Instagram followers or over 400 thousand TikTok followers on his team like he […]
COVID-19 RIPS THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA WOMEN’S PRISON AS FEDERAL AGENCY TAKES HEAT
First seen in CNN. Rory Adams did not know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia would be the last time he saw his wife alive. She’d entered prison in early January 2021 […]
Native and Black Youth More Likely to be Locked Up Than Whites, Report Finds
First seen in The News Station A new report from The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C., based think tank, found that nationwide, Native youth are three times and Black youth five times more likely to be incarcerated than whites. The […]
Minority students are disciplined more often than their white counterparts. What are districts doing about it?
First seen in the Colorado Springs Indy On the third day of online school in August, Dani Elliott called her 12-year-old son. She was terrified. She told him to lock every door, turn off the lights […]
CSPD hosts law enforcement training for mental health 911 calls
First seen in the Colorado Springs Indy “We have to show that we care about people. A lot of people don’t think that we do,” a facilitator told a Colorado Springs Police officer during Crisis […]
ACLU pressures Polis to release more inmates at risk for COVID-19
First seen in the Colorado Springs Indy Marsha Brewer’s fifth wheel has been sitting on her and her husband Jim’s ranch in Yoder for the last month, detailed and ready to quarantine him if he […]
20-year CSPD officer disciplined for “KILL EM ALL” comment
First seen in the Colorado Springs Independent A Colorado Springs Police Officer found to have commented “KILL EM ALL” and then “KILL THEM ALL” on a livestream of a June Black Lives Matter protest that […]