More than 1.3 million people in the U.S. are incarcerated in state and federal prisons, and COVID-19 has created significant problems for correctional facilities. One of the greatest challenges is the inability of incarcerated people to maintain safe social distancing because of their confinement in small shared spaces.
https://covid19.counciloncj.org/2020/12/06/impact-report-covid-19-and-prisons/
NEW YORK — A senior judge who navigated her Manhattan-based court through the covid-19 crisis has denounced as "inhuman" the conditions inside New York's federal jails, complaining at the sentencing of a woman who spent months in solitary confinement after contracting the coronavirus that the facilities are "run by morons."
Department of Justice statement provided to the New York Daily News, the brutalist concrete tower known as the Guantanamo of New York will close “at least temporarily” following decades of dysfunction.
An expected influx of 200 detainees from the Metropolitan Correctional Center complicates ongoing efforts to improve conditions at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
The fire and partial power outage in January at Brooklyn’s federal jail did not cause the heat failures that left incarcerated people in the cold for weeks, a new report from the Office of the Inspector General found.
A higher-up at Brooklyn’s federal jail admitted to cops she killed her husband after years of dangerous domestic strife, documents obtained by the Daily News revealed Thursday.
It took a handful of lawyers and a very p.o.’d judge to do one plumber’s job: Fix a 60-year-old inmate’s broken toilet in Brooklyn’s federal lockup.
If the U.S. had done more to reduce its incarceration rate, it could have prevented millions of COVID-19 cases.
That's the conclusion of researchers who conducted what they say is the first study to link mass incarceration rates to pandemic vulnerability. Many of those preventable cases, they add, occurred in communities of color.
“In the midst of a global pandemic, economic collapse, mass unemployment, and racial divide, we were exposed to a dark truth about police brutality.” The injustice must end..
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2020/jul/15/police-state-social-justice-social-dominance/
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedomsis one of the most important documents forming part of the Canadian constitution. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms allows Canada to lead by example on the world stage regarding human rights. Canada was one of the leading nations that sponsored the Mandela Doctrine to be adopted and guide other countries on human rights. Canada is a world leader in respect for human rights, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a significant document in not only protecting our rights but establishing Canada as an international model on human rights.
The Canadian Senate is committed to monitoring the human rights of Canada's most vulnerable populations including federally-sentenced persons. This report establishes that while Canada does take steps to respect the rights of federally-sentenced persons, improvements can always be made and indeed must be made since Canada is an international leader on human rights, which includes respect for the rights of all persons. The Report concludes with a list of recommendations to improve Canadian prisons.
Canadian courts have been increasingly limiting the permissible use of solitary confinement of prisoners in recent years. Nelson Mandela was famously held in solitary confinement, which amounted to torture, and his experience led to the creation of the Mandela Doctrine, in lockstep with Canada, on minimum standards for treatment of prisoners. Dr. Grassian is an internationally recognized leader in the study of solitary confinement and this article discusses the psychological effects of this treatment. The essential finding is that even the slightest stay in solitary confinement can cause profound and lasting psychological damage. Solitary confinement is rampant in US prisons despite the known harm, whereas Canada is taking steps to curtail its utilization in respect of the human rights of prisoners. The divergent approaches to solitary confinement in USA and Canada becomes particularly relevant in extradition cases due to Canada's commitment to human rights and domestic judicial prohibitions on solitary confinement.
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