Illinois Department Of Corrections Benchslapped For Spending Years Failing To Improve Medical Care For Prisoners
15 August 2022
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15 August 2022
In the space of less than a week, two federal courts have come down hard on prison systems for treating prisoners like meat suitable for nothing more than processing by the so-called justice system. In Mississippi, a federal judge yanked control of a prison away from local officials, placing the Raymond Detention Center into receivership after the county had failed, for years, to implement court-ordered improvements. Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center has been under a consent decree since 2016. And in those six years, it has only managed to comply with three of the decree’s 92 requirements. The situation had ...
Illinois Department Of Corrections Benchslapped For Spending Years Failing To Improve Medical Care For Prisoners
In the space of less than a week, two federal courts have come down hard on prison systems for treating prisoners like meat suitable for nothing more than processing by the so-called justice system…
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