NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A Kennedy family charity plans to spend millions of dollars to spring every bail-eligible city inmate that is 16, 17 or a woman in an epic move to promote jail reform, law enforcement sources told The Post on Tuesday. The initiative would free hundreds of defendants — many awaiting trial…
ST. BERNARD PARISH, LOUISIANNA – A former St. Bernard Parish correctional officer pleaded guilty Tuesday (Sept. 18) to violating the rights of a woman who, after being repeatedly denied medical help for her rare blood disorder, died during a roughly 10-day stay at the parish jail, according to federal court records. Timothy Williams of Meraux, now…
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, ILLINOIS – DeVonte Jones began to show signs of schizophrenia as a teenager. His first public episode was nine years ago at a ball game at Wavering Park, in Quincy, Ill. “He snapped out and just went around and started kicking people,” says Jones’ mother Linda Colon, who now lives in a Chicago suburb….
This is Karl Malone. As an ambassador for corrections and law enforcement officers across the country, I will be writing a monthly blog for NIJO, called “The Mailbag”. This blog is dedicated to YOU–our men and women in uniform, corrections officers, law enforcement officers, first responders, and everyone who protects our freedoms every single day….
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How Tablets are Helping Us Clean Up Our Prison The debate over prison reform seems sharply divided between those who want to see stricter sentencing and harsher punishment and those who want to move toward a more rehabilitative system. Despite very real differences between these two philosophies, there may be one issue that both sides…
