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• Judge questions New Orleans' request to halt mental health jail construction

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  Jail officials testified about the need to give inmates with serious mental health problems proper treatment

• L.A. County to pay out $14M over unlawful immigration holds

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  The lawsuit alleged that the Sheriff's Department routinely held people in jail for days, weeks or even months beyond the dates of their release

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  The right DEMS can improve the management and sharing of critical evidence, including bodycam video, for more successful investigations

• Understanding inmate discipline and limited due process

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  Forget everything you have heard about how inmate discipline was handled 'back in the day'

• San Diego judge upholds state ban on private immigration detention centers

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  Under the ruling, at least four immigration detention centers with the capacity to house approximately 5,000 people would be phased out over the coming years

• DA: Pa. prison's medical staff's response in inmate death 'woefully inadequate'

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  A coroner said medical staff did not recognize for more than 25 minutes that the inmate had stopped breathing

• DA: 'Baby Shark' kid's song used to bully Okla. jail inmates

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  An investigation found that inmates were forced to stand the entire time, hands cuffed behind them and secured to the wall

• Maine agrees to provide hepatitis C medication in prisons

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  The agreement will allow all infected prisoners to receive a costly, but highly effective medication to treat the disease

• Texas man who spent nearly 40 years on death row released

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  The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Bobby James Moore last year, saying that it would be unconstitutional to execute him because of his mental disability

• Sweeping COVID-19 protections ordered at Texas prison by federal judge

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  The ruling comes after weeks of testimony by inmates, officials and experts about the lack of access to soap, hand sanitizer and routine testing

• Fla. seeks investigation into Bloomberg's donation to help felons vote

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  Officials are reviewing allegations that Bloomberg and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition had violated the law by offering incentives for voting

• Former NY corrections officer says charges were retaliation

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  Alexandra Matalavage, who pleaded guilty to falsifying work records, says charges were trumped up so she would drop her gender discrimination complaint

• Lawsuit: Pa. county jail punishes mentally ill

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  Inmates claim the facility offers inadequate treatment and medication, and often punishes them with extended solitary confinement or excessive force

• Family of San Quentin inmate who contracted COVID-19 files wrongful death claim

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  Daniel Ruiz is one of 27 inmates and employees who died from COVID-19 after San Quentin took in 121 transfers from the California Institution for Men

• Judge: Calif. COs must wear body cams after evidence of inmate abuse

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  The judge is giving the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation five months to get the body-worn devices into use

• Report: Va. immigration detention center should release inmates

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  A judge faulted the detention complex in Farmville for an outbreak that affected more than 90% of the center's nearly 300 detainees

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