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Why the plan to replace Rikers, or reform any prison, is doomed to perpetuate the problem

Hours after judge rules 18-year-old can’t stand trial due to mental health, he’s found dead in jail

Largest mass bailout in history releases hundreds from Rikers

New Orleans judge is the latest to strike down money bail after class-action suit

Distraught father kills himself in a jail cell after being separated from his family at border

Sandra Bland documentary to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

N.C. approves policy to limit physical restraints of incarcerated women in labor

Philadelphia District Attorney eliminates cash bail for majority of non-violent crimes

Black man: “give me a lawyer, dog.” Racist court system says he wasn’t asking for a lawyer

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed signs marijuana decriminalization bill

Tennessee judge changes mind about sterilizing inmates for shorter jail sentences

Tennessee jails are offering to sterilize inmates in exchange for shorter sentences

Settlement keeps Mississippi from jailing people who can’t afford bail

Texas Senate passes Sandra Bland Act, addresses jail employees’ treatment of emotionally distressed inmates

BLM activists work to free over 30 mothers from jail for ‘National Mama’s Bail Out Day’

Woman Who Falsely Accused 4 Black Men of Kidnapping, Rape Gets 1 Year In Jail

Nick Cannon Visits D.C. Jail For Weekly Howard Coursework

Justice Department Says People Can’t Be Jailed Because They Can’t Afford Bail

Women Jailed at a Faster Rate than Men, Two-Thirds are Women of Color

Judge Serves 24 Hour Jail Sentence With Fellow Veteran

Los Angeles Family Questions Woman’s Reported Suicide in Jail

50-Year-Old Woman Dies In Jail After 27 Hours Without Water

Officer Who Killed Walter Scott Has Been Released from Jail on Bond

Birmingham man receives just $1,000 from $460,000 police brutality settlement

Family of woman who died in Missouri jail cell demands answers

Alabama prisoner dies after being Tasered by police in effort to prevent suicide

Study: whites support harsher criminal laws if mostly blacks are getting arrested

Mother of homeless man who ‘baked to death’ in jail files lawsuit

Report: Thanks to harsh drug policies, U.S. leads world in prison population

Update: former NFL star Darren Sharper to remain in jail

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