A yearlong joint investigation by NBC News and Bloomberg Law has uncovered a pattern of pregnant women in jails across the United States miscarrying, giving birth alone on filthy cell floors or toilets, and in some cases losing their babies or their own lives while requests for help were reportedly ignored.
The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office criticized District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ recent announcement that eight of eleven people charged with narcotics trafficking in the Tenderloin had been released, arguing that it is a fear-mongering tactic that threatens judicial independence and would further overcrowd jails.
By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group TRIGGER WARNING: If you are a woman who has suffered…
Special to the Vanguard Los Angeles, CA – U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson approved an extraordinary…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Jr. Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – A social justice group and jail…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – A little over a week after United…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA – United States Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins patiently waded…
By Cres Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief DUBLIN, CA – More than 100 incarcerated here in Alameda…
By Zahra Abbas ST. LOUIS – Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner said last week her office will be…
By Julian Verdon ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MO – Pretrial detainees at Missouri’s St. Francois County Jail must…
The latest news out of New York is grim, but the situation on Rikers Island is grim…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau DUBLIN, CA – A Bay Area civil rights attorney told…
ICE Detainees Hunger Strike at Yuba County Jail Over ‘Horrific’ Conditions By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau MARYSVILLE, CA – Hunger strikes in the suffrage, civil rights, farmworker…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau MARYSVILLE, CA – Jails are dreary places, but the Yuba County…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A motion for summary judgment was filed Tuesday by…
By Cres Vellucci In a major lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court here, conditions at the Alameda…