“Our experimentation with private prisons has been a failure,” said Representative Giraldo. “Not only do private prisons fail to provide the substantial savings we were promised,...
Jose was due to be released on March 17. "I have to go on Wednesday to pick up his ashes," said Marie. "He's going to come...
"Jose Franco passed less than a month after Timothy McQuesten, who died in the Intake facility..."
"Take control over your guards! Tell them to do their job! Roll the tape so you can see with your own eyes that your employees are...
"808 incarcerated people are infected with Covid at the ACI and the number is growing. For nine months, family members, community organizers, public health experts and...
Presently, the number of cases among incarcerated individuals at the ACI, is surging past 570 with nearly 100% of those incarcerated in the Maximum Security building...
“You defund social services all the time. You defund schools. You defund hospitals, community health centers, programs for low-incomes communities all the time. You are experts...
“So far,” said Warden Daniel Martin, “we haven’t had any other cases that have been identified.“ Wednesday’s meeting of the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation Board,...
“Anne Frank died in a crowded detention center of an infectious disease.”
“From a public health perspective, it is imperative that we protect Rhode Islanders, inside and outside the criminal justice system, from the coronavirus. In order to...