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deaths in custody

• The New York Daily News reported that prosecutors for the Bronx District Attorney will not pursue criminal charges related to the death of Layleen Polanco, a 27-year-old Afro-Latinx, transgender woman, last June. Polanco died from an epileptic seizure while being held in punitive segregation, or solitary confinement, at Rikers Island jail in New York […]

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Local Jails Were Death Traps Even Before COVID-19. The Pandemic Demands Sweeping—and Permanent—Change.

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by Jean Casella and Katie Rose Quandt

April 13, 2020

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February 24, 2020

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February 17, 2020

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February 3, 2020

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January 27, 2020

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January 13, 2020

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Chicago Jail’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement Is a Work in Progress

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January 6, 2020

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December 30, 2019

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December 23, 2019

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November 26, 2019

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November 18, 2019

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November 11, 2019

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October 28, 2019

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October 21, 2019

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