Agents are also investigating allegations that guards at the Men's Central Jail etched letters into the scalp of a black inmate, representing a Spanish-language racial slur.
In a flagrant exploitation of imprisoned children's rights, the investigation found that the continuing and voluminous practice of dispensing psychiatric drugs to child inmates represents "substantial departures from generally accepted professional standards".
In 2000, privately operated prisons held more than 101,000 federal and state prisoners and local jail inmates, representing 11percentt of all federal prisoners, six percent of all state prisoners, and two percent of jail inmates (Beck and Harrison, 2001).
The population of King County, where Seattle is located, is only about 8percentt black, but black inmates represent roughly 36percentt of county jail inmates.
Convicted killer Todd Ashker and three other inmates — representing the Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia and the Black Guerrilla Family — called for a mass hunger strike July 8, largely to protest indefinite incarceration in solitary confinement.
If Norfolk Jail's 86 inmates represent the average for that facility, it would translate to a cost of roughly $1.84 million per year to lock people up for possession of marijuana in Norfolk alone (at a rate of $58.69 a day per inmate), according to McCabe.
Jail and prison inmates represent a captive, and still very important, audience for HIV testing, counseling, and prevention messages.
The number of these preventive detention sentences is small, so these inmates represent a select group within the Norwegian prison population.
In one, a death-row inmate was represented by a lawyer who was abusing alcohol and cocaine at the time of the trial.
Laura Rovner, an associate law professor at the University of Denver, told me about an inmate she represented, who had no history of violence but a habit of self-harming.
