N.C. Claims Fewer Prisoners Died of COVID Than Documents Show
In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take him to the hospital, and instead called the time of death and left. A prison official called his uncle, who would wake up to a voicemail sharing the news.
Binghamâs story is not unique. A
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Inmates advocates criticize conditions at St. Louis jail
Eric Berger and Mark Berman, The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2021
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ST. LOUIS - Some inmate advocates and attorneys said Monday that they are not surprised by a weekend uprising at the jail here during which inmates smashed windows and set fires and a corrections officer ended up hospitalized. They are desperate in there, and anyone would be at this point, Erika Wurst, a lawyer with the St. Louis public defender s office, said of the more than 700 people detained at the St. Louis Justice Center, a six-story building a few blocks from the city s riverfront.
February 9, 2021
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“We as an engineering community learned from that, that just having strength was not enough,” said Jonathan Stewart, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA. “You had to have ductility” the ability to stretch. “The [building] code would essentially produce nonductile concrete buildings.”
A new archival project at UCLA seeks to become that conduit, using boxes and boxes of internal records obtained by the LAPD. And to further that mission, the effort was recently given a three-and-a-half million-dollar boost in the form of a grant. Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Mark Vestal are professors at UCLA. They also head this new project, called Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration. (Lytle Hernandez and Vestal were interviewed.)
The largest jail in Texas is nearing capacity. Experts warn it could become a hotbed for COVID-19. By Zoe Christen Jones
January 28, 2021 / 7:36 PM / CBS News
There s rising concern that the largest jail in Texas could become a hotbed for COVID-19 as the facility nears capacity. The Harris County Jail in Houston is currently at 97% capacity, a number that corrections officials and criminal justice advocates believe puts both staff and inmates at risk.
There are currently about 9,000 inmates housed at the facility and around 60 have contracted the virus, a Harris County Sheriff s Office spokesperson told CBS News. Since last year, 2,600 inmates have tested positive and six have died.