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The state could also move to put more prisoners in private out-of-state facilities or contract with county jails that have open beds.

"We have 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets out of jails that have been destroyed," Mr. Aboul Gheit said during an interview with the NewsHour on PBS.

Luhrmann has followed mentally ill women in Chicago through what is known as the "institutional circuit" — the shelters, halfway homes, emergency rooms, and jails that have taken the place of mental asylums.

In fact, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are marginalized areas — including Miami-Dade County, which, like Baltimore, has a major gang problem — with jails that have lower than average rates of sexual abuse.

Luhrmann has followed mentally ill women in Chicago through what is known as the "institutional circuit"—the shelters, halfway homes, emergency rooms, and jails that have taken the place of mental asylums.

Mr. Boston said the department has exhibited an "overall lack of consistent effort" to investigate and punish the use of excessive force by jail staff members, even as the situation has improved at those jails that have been the subject of legal scrutiny.

The buildings give "the impression of being either apartment houses that had been converted into jails or jails that had been converted into apartment houses," and the student residents, all male, create a fug of cigarette butts and empty beer cans and dirty laundry -- all except for Toru's roommate, a stuttering geography major whose fanatic cleanliness earns him the nickname Storm Trooper.

Rikers Island in New York City is among the few jails that has drastically reduced its use of solitary housing.

We identified 15 jails that had death rates more than double the last available national average, which is 135 deaths a year per 100,000 inmates.

The prisoners were temporarily moved to a section of the jail that has thicker walls, said Sheriff Carey Winders of Wayne County.

A1 Southern Slave Jail Unearthed With slave-era artifacts difficult to find and authenticate, the Underground Railroad museum of Ohio is spending about $1 million to disassemble and reconstruct a slave jail that has been hidden away in a Kentucky tobacco barn.