Month: December 2018

First Step Act Will Make Prisons Safer — and Help Protect Inmates from Rape

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., December 21, 2018 — Just Detention International hails the passage of the First Step Act, the groundbreaking prison reform bill that was signed into law by President Trump today. The act, which received broad bipartisan support, includes many provisions long championed by JDI. Specifically, the First Step Act calls for

The forgotten voices of #metoo: Prison rape in America – perpetrated by both inmates and staff – remains pervasive and under-reported 15 years after the passage of a law intended to end crisis

  • Valerie Bauman
  • December 10, 2018
  • The Daily Mail

It started the first night Joe Booth was placed with his new cellmate at the Richard Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. ‘He grabbed my ankle and pulled me off the bed … He had a weapon that was manufactured out of a piece of metal that he had gotten,’ Booth told DailyMail.com. ‘I had

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