Category: JDI in the News

Steve Steinberg, hacker, writer, friend (1970-2020)

  • David Pescovitz
  • October 9, 2020
  • Boing Boing

Steve Steinberg—hacker, writer, father, and my dear friend—died yesterday. He was 50 years old. Several weeks ago, Steve had a terrible accident while riding the e-bike that he built himself. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and didn’t recover. Steve’s brain was what defined him. He was truly one of the smartest people I’ve ever

No consequences after Florida officers admit to sexually abusing inmates, lawsuit says

  • Romy Ellenbogen
  • September 17, 2020
  • Tampa Bay Times

Within a month of arriving in federal prison, Lauren Reynolds says she was targeted by an officer. He told her he’d protect her if she gave him what he wanted. He wanted sex. After the first time Officer Daniel Kuilan forced himself on Reynolds, she said he told her not to tell anyone or she’d

David Kaiser, Rockefeller Heir Who Fought Exxon Mobil, Dies at 50

  • John Schwartz
  • July 16, 2020
  • The New York Times

A great-great grandson of John D. Rockefeller, he steered one of his family’s philanthropies to a feisty stance on the oil giant’s role in climate change. David Kaiser, a scion of the Rockefeller family who steered one of its philanthropies into a pitched confrontation with the company that provided the family’s prodigious wealth, died on

David Kaiser, who exposed the horrors of prisoner rape and the deceptions of Exxon

  • July 19, 2020
  • The New York Review of Books

David Kaiser died this week at the age of 50, of cancer. A great-great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller and president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, Kaiser used his influence and voice to take on hugely powerful interests, champion unpopular causes, and bring injustices to light. Twenty years ago he was an editorial assistant at The

Among advocates’ fears for Florida’s incarcerated youth during pandemic: sexual abuse

  • Dana Cassidy
  • July 13, 2020
  • Orlando Sentinel

FLORIDA — The COVID-19 crisis has placed an unprecedented strain on Florida’s incarcerated youth, but experts fear it may also exacerbate a challenge that far predates the pandemic: combating sexual abuse at juvenile facilities and helping survivors recover. With many juvenile inmates alone with staff and cut off from in-person contact with loved ones, some worry sexual