Stop COVID-19 In Jails

State Prison Earns National Accreditation

December 4, 2020yesgregyes

Pinckneyville Correctional Center is the first state prison in more than a decade to complete the requirements for national accreditation, according to the [...]

A State-by-State Look At Coronavirus In Prisons

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020yesgregyes

By Nov. 17, at least 197,659 people in prison had tested positive for the illness, an 8 percent increase from the week before. [...]

COVID Tears Through State Prison In Anamosa

November 21, 2020yesgregyes

The coronavirus is tearing through Iowa’s prisons, infecting more than 3,400 incarcerated individuals and staff and killing 9: eight inmates and one employee. [...]

Over 100 COVID Rebellions in Jails & Prisons

November 15, 2020yesgregyes

U.S jails and prisons, already death traps, have been completely ravaged by COVID-19. Crowded quarters, a lack of PPE, inadequate medical care, an [...]

Containing COVID-19: Jails, Prisons Ripe for Spread

November 14, 2020yesgregyes

Early in the pandemic, reports characterized the Cook County Jail as a congregate setting hot spot for the coronavirus. Sheriff Tom Dart’s office [...]

80% of those who Died of Covid-19 in Texas County Jails were Never Convicted of a Crime

November 13, 2020yesgregyes

Over 230 people have died from Covid-19 in Texas’s correctional facilities — and in county jails, nearly 80 percent of them were in [...]

Mass Incarceration Has Been a Driving Force of Economic Inequality

November 12, 2020yesgregyes

As people struggle with the economic fallout of Covid-19, there’s a growing sense that the economy wasn’t working well for many even before the lockdowns. In [...]

Compassionate Release

August 6, 2020yesgregyes

In compassionate release cases, judges have to decide if an inmate’s situation presents “extraordinary and compelling reasons” to reduce their prison sentence. In [...]