Advocates and lawmakers are calling for urgent intervention at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York due to multiple deaths and mounting reports of unsafe and inhumane conditions affecting transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals, and are demanding an independent investigation into the unjustified uses of force.
Incarcerated individuals at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Colorado and New Jersey State Prison in Trenton face inhumane and oppressive conditions, including restricted communication, limited access to food and hygiene, and infrastructure failures.
Lawmakers and correctional leaders across the US are advancing reforms to reduce recidivism and improve prison conditions, with efforts including improving health and staff resources, increasing education and vocational opportunities, and reducing workplace violence.
Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can lead to serious injury or death.
Rodney Reid recounts his experience in Rikers Island, describing the brutal conditions he endured during years spent in solitary confinement, which he argues were intentionally designed to drive prisoners to insanity.
The federal government has announced plans to transfer almost all formerly federal death row prisoners to the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, despite concerns about constitutional protections and prison conditions, and a lawsuit alleging the transfers are arbitrary and capricious.
Winter storms have left many incarcerated people without heat, reliable electricity, food, water, and medical care, exacerbating existing health risks and increasing mortality rates and suicide levels.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a staffing crisis as corrections officers are leaving for more lucrative jobs at ICE, resulting in worse conditions for inmates and staff.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County, the Sheriff’s Department, and Correctional Health Services, alleging ongoing unconstitutional and inhumane conditions in the county’s jails, citing overcrowding, understaffing, and lack of medical care.
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