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Investigating alleged medical neglect in U.S. prisons

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By Sandra Hausman. There are about 60,000 Virginians in state prisons and regional jails. Providing health care for a single inmate runs $5,300 annually, and that cost has been rising 5-7 percent per year, but taxpayers may not be getting their money’s worth, and people …

Inmate Abuse in U.S. Prison Facilities | The Legal Examiner

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How bad is prison health care in the United States? — …

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At the moment, prisons in the United States are at over 100% of capacity. There are a host of other challenges too. One of the biggest barriers to care, Scharff said, …

Prison Conditions - Equal Justice Initiative

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Alabama’s prisons are the most violent in the nation. The U.S. Department of Justice found in a statewide investigation that Alabama routinely violates the constitutional rights of …

Physical Violence Inside Prisons: Rates of Victimization

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Abstract. The results of this study confirm the stereotype that prisons are violent places. Over a 6-month period, 20 percent of inmates reported experiencing some form of …

Torture in U.S. Prisons | Center for Constitutional Rights

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In addition to incarceration, prisoners are repeatedly abused by their guards, fellow prisoners, and an ineffective and apathetic system. They suffer beatings, rape, …

The Violence Against People Behind Bars That We Don't See

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Research from the Brennan Center for Justice shows that in 2016, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population — 576,000 people — were behind bars for no …

Systemic Abuse of Prisoners in U.S. | Prison Legal News

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The federal prison system certainly hasn’t seen the levels of inmate abuse that state and local prisons have become infamous for. New York’s Rikers Island, for …

5 Types of Inmate Abuse In Prisons: It’s …

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Physical Violence. Physical violence, which refers to both assaults on inmates and prison staff, and inmate-to-inmate fighting, may be one of the most …

Prisoner Abuse: How Different are U.S. Prisons?

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In recent years, U.S. prison inmates have been beaten with fists and batons, stomped on, kicked, shot, stunned with electronic devices, doused with chemical sprays, …