prisoner abuse

Wisconsin’s Enormous Prison Count and Mistreatment of Prisoners

Last week I attended a panel titled ‘Reentry: Ready or Not’ organized by Milwaukee’s Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, the Milwaukee Turners, and other local community partners. Wisconsin currently imprisons 23,755 people, more than twice as many as neighboring Minnesota. The focus was on ways to reduce Wisconsin’s prison population, along with how to better …

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Visitor Strip-Searches at Rikers Island Show How Vulnerable Inmates Are to Abuse

A recently filed lawsuit has brought to light allegations that visitors to Rikers Island prison in New York are subjected to frightening, invasive, demeaning, and against the rules searches. A number of women visiting male relatives at the prison claim that before being given access to the prison they were forced to strip naked, have …

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