After struggling for years to gain enough bipartisan support to tighten the state’s bail laws, Texas Republicans appear closer than ever to achieving their elusive goal of amending the state Constitution to keep more defendants behind bars pretrial. Editor: Does that include someone like Donald…
Hundreds of pages of doctors’ notes shed light on a death that has prompted protests and stirred outrage from Faggart’s family but that JSO has merely described as an “incident” in its jail
One of the nine Duval County jail officers suspended earlier this month in connection with the death of 31-year-old Charles Faggart was reprimanded last year in an unrelated internal affairs investigation centered around the death of a different inmate, according to documents obtained by The…
The Florida jail death occurred at Duval County jail. A 31-year-old father was beaten to death by 9 officers.
The family’s attorney said Charles Faggart “was beaten” and had been “brain dead” since Monday.
A Florida woman is about to be convicted of murdering her son after he died in a house fire. Prosecutors say she started it but the evidence doesn't hold up.
Only Gov. Greg Abbott can call for a special session. But in his role presiding over the Texas Senate, Patrick can block any bill from passing, giving him leverage to compel overtime sessions by killing must-pass legislation.
Innocence Project bill resurrected; Cordell Hull hit with urine
Take it from Derrick Shiloh: There are huge benefits to becoming a jailhouse informant. He was urged, he said, 32 years ago by a fellow detainee at the Duval County jail to join the informants who were planning to testify that they had heard Kenneth Hartley confess to the murder of Gino Mayhew, 17.…
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
The Trump White House takes a stylized approach on its propaganda as Trump wields a 1798 law.
The Trump administration detained Yoiker Sequera at Guantanamo Bay for almost two weeks before he was deported to Venezuela. His mother speaks out and reflects on finding out her son had been sent to…
Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, transgender federal prisoners are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different thing from another.”
President Trump now wants to deport US citizens to a mega prison in El Salvador. A statement released by the President of El Salvador confirmed this.
Following Trump’s executive order, a trans woman held at a federal prison was told she would be moved to a men’s prison.
A bill would outlaw the use of restraints in the third trimester, during labor and for the first 48 hours postpartum “except in extraordinary circumstances.”
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