Category: JDI in the News

Florida’s Lowell prison is cesspool of sexual abuse by staff, feds say in blistering report

  • Julie K. Brown
  • December 22, 2020
  • Miami Herald

In a scathing rebuke of Florida’s Department of Corrections, the U.S. Department of Justice has found that officers at Lowell Correctional Institution have raped, sodomized, beaten and choked countless female inmates as part of a pattern of civil rights abuses that goes back years. The sexual torment by staff at the women’s prison so horrified

SC inmates use art to heal from sexual assault trauma, domestic violence

  • Sara Coello
  • December 7, 2020
  • Post and Courier

At two women’s prisons in South Carolina, butterfly wings spread out across the walls. The murals, at Leath and Camille Graham correctional institutions, are the first stage of a project focused on healing for inmates who have survived sexual and domestic violence. Artist Cathy Salser guided 32 inmates, each of whom decorated one of the

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