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• NYC prepared to close Rikers jail complex by 2026

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  City council members will vote on a plan to close the complex, replace it with four smaller jails

• Calif. to end its use of private, for-profit prisons

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  California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings

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• Corrections official questions inmate lookup tool at center of $68M verdict

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  Bucks County disagreed with the court's interpretation that it willfully violated the Criminal History Records Information Act, known as CHRIA, through "reckless disregard or indifference"

• Lawsuit: NJ county should be allowed to share inmate info with ICE

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  The lawsuit is seeking a judgement that the AG does not have the power to prohibit Ocean County from sharing info with other agencies

• Failure to provide sex change is not cruel and unusual punishment

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  Vanessa Lynn Gibson asserted that sexual reassignment surgery is essential medical care and denying the surgery violates the Eighth Amendment

• NC high court hears case on race, death penalty

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  North Carolina's highest court began weighing a claim Monday by six inmates on death row who say they are there because of racial discrimination in jury selection

• Was electronic control device use proper? You decide!

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  Consider a roundtable discussion of these two cases during roll call training

• Advocates hope Ill. private detention ban sparks change

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  The Illinois law extends an existing 1990 private prison ban to include immigration detention

• NYPD to revise policy regarding shackling of pregnant women in custody

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  The policy changes are part of a $610,000 lawsuit settlement with a Bronx woman who was shackled during childbirth

• Lawsuit: Jury finds Ore. CO put inmate in harm's way, awards $350K

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  In the lawsuit, the inmate alleged the CO compromised his safety by revealing to other prisoners that he was in protective custody after leaving a gang

• Fla. governor signs felon voting bill

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  Felons will have to pay court-ordered financial obligations if they want their voting rights restored

• Fla. sheriff will hold inmates 48 hours for ICE

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  The sheriff's office signed a "basic ordering agreement" with ICE to hold inmates for an extra 48 hours

• St. Louis asks for more time to release suspects from jail after judge's ruling

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  Officials are asking for more time to determine who out of 900 detainees should be released

• Principles for success as a CO: Inmate safety

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  While the inmates in our care have been legitimately deprived of liberty, they still have certain constitutional rights

• Activists give jailed moms a Mother's Day gift: bail

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  Multiple groups and activist nationwide planned to bail out more than 100 women in 35 cities in time for Mother's Day

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