Police Misconduct Blog

There are things money can’t buy, and that includes time. All the money in the world can’t set the clock back and give back stolen years.
For Richard Phillips, a Michigan man who spent 45 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the $1.5 million he’ll receive from...

ICE’s detention centers are known for routinely violating the rights of suspected illegal immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s abusive use of solitary confinement has recently been exposed by Ellen Gallagher, a whistleblower who said she was “deeply disturbed”...

In 2015, Sandra Bland’s jail cell suicide made national headlines. The 28-year-old African-American woman from Chicago was arrested in rural Texas after a traffic stop and hanged herself in her jail cell three days later. Now it turns out Bland videoed the traffic stop herself.
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A 34-year old mentally ill woman gave birth alone in a Broward County, Florida jail cell – even though the Sheriff’s Office knew she was nine months pregnant and did not send her to the hospital when she asked for help.
In the early morning hours of April 10, Tammy Jackson told...

In early April, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a report detailing the horrendous conditions in Alabama’s prisons. In the month since the report’s release, the New York Times states that three corrections officers have been attacked and at least one prisoner stabbed –...

Prison inmates don’t expect fine dining when they head to their meals, but they shouldn’t expect to deal with vermin like mice and maggots when eating. Yet that is what’s happening at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, and elsewhere...

Justice Department investigators found that Alabama’s prison system – which has the highest homicide rate in the nation – have permitted such murders, along with rapes and other forms of violence, to go unchecked for decades.
Investigators place the blame on overcrowding and...

Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility is one of the nation’s worst prisons. It has the dubious distinction of the prison with the nation’s highest homicide rate and among the highest suicide rates. Recently, the New York Times received over 2,000 photos taken inside the prison...

In Oklahoma’s Nowata County, the sheriff and 12 members of her department – including deputies and civilian employees – resigned on March 18 instead of obeying a court order to move inmates back into the county jail.
The jail has been closed since last month when four...

Banking behemoth JP Morgan Chase recently announced that it will no longer finance the private prison industry. The largest United States bank in terms of assets is following the lead of other well-known banks that have stopped such financing.
JP Morgan Chase was involved in the financing of...