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On Monday, July 31, 2017, at about 3:15 p.m., correctional officers at the Lake County Jail in Waukegan, Illinois, discovered an inmate attempting to commit suicide using a t-shirt. The…
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A federal lawsuit was filed on Monday, July 31, 2017, alleging that 48-year-old Joseph Hutcheson died because of lack of training and excessive force by four deputies with the Dallas…
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Tasers are used by police officers supposedly as a safer way than other methods to deal with combative suspects. A video has been released which allegedly show deputies using a…
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Greater transparency with regard to law enforcement reporting on fatal and serious police shootings has uncovered cases that would allegedly previously have been obscured. When agencies don’t report officer-involved shootings,…
Read More The actions of a constable deputy in Harris County Precinct One in Houston, Texas, have come under fire this week. The deputy approached 20-year-old African American Marlin Gipson, who was…
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In Wayne County, Michigan, an alarming surge in jail suicides is causing widespread concern. Over the past 13 months, there have been eight suicides in Wayne County jails. This number…
Read More Since May 2017, there have been three inmate suicides at Macomb County Jail, Michigan. In the past three years prior to 2017, there was one inmate death at the jail.…
Read More In 2014, 27-year-old Antoquan T. Watson was killed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, when seven police officers allegedly opened fire and shot him 45 times. This week, dashcam footage of…
Read More The Houston, Texas, City Council was set to vote on July 25, 2017, regarding whether or not to enter a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit. The potential 85,000-dollar…
Read More On June 26, 2017, an investigation began with regard to an incident that allegedly occurred at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Central Jail in Florida. An inmate’s nose and some of…
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The majority of prisons in Texas do not have air conditioning in inmate living areas, in spite of the sweltering heat in summer months. The Darrington Unit, a maximum-security prison…
Read More A Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detention officer was given a 10-day suspension in March 2017 because he allegedly did not properly supervise inmates in his care last year during a…
Read More Waller County Jail in Texas has become recognized worldwide as the place where Sandra Bland committed suicide in her cell after a controversial arrest. The death of Bland stands out…
Read More Justine Ruszczyk called the police on Saturday night, July 15, 2017, out of concern that a crime may have been taking place. According to Don Damond, Ruszczyk’s fiancé, she called…
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On Monday, July 17, 2017, a vehicle that 34-year-old Anthony Rivera was in was stopped in Victoria, Texas. Victoria police arrested Rivera, who was a passenger, on suspicion of marijuana…
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On September 16, 2016, 48-year-old Thomas Lorecki died after hanging himself in Jefferson County Jail in the state of Washington. One of his sons has filed a lawsuit against Jefferson…
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San Mateo County and a deputy with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office in California were sued by 64-year-old Richard Earl May Jr., who was bitten by a police dog…
Read More On Saturday night, July 15, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Justine Ruszczyk called 9-1-1 because she was concerned that a sexual assault may have been taking place in an alley near…
Read More On Friday, July 14, 2017, a federal court jury handed down a unanimous verdict, awarding more than $15 million to the parents and son of Leonard Thomas. In 2013, Thomas…
Read More A July 2017 report released from the Office of the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Justice includes a review of the use of restrictive housing for inmates with…
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