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• Attorney General Barr creating task force on prison misconduct

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  The establishment of the task force comes as the nation's jails and prisons are on high alert in response to COVID-19

• LA county officials approve first step to long-awaited jail system reform

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  “The eyes of the nation will be watching as we try to transform a system defined too often by jail bars and barbed-wire fences to a community-based system"

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  How one Indiana jail stops contraband at the door

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  Smiths Detection

  Since adding a body scanner to its intake process, the facility has seen a significant drop in drugs found during random shakedowns

• W.Va. passes bill aimed at reducing jail, prison populations

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  For the entire legislative session, there have been more people incarcerated at the state's jails than there are beds in those jails

• Lawmakers tackling Ala.'s prison crisis with 5 bills, several initiatives

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  The legislation comes in the wake of last year's report on the Department of Justice's investigation into the state's prisons

• Survey: Lack of trust, commitment remains among Del. COs after fatal riot

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  The survey found that trust and morale remain low among correctional officers at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center

• Report: Fla. private prison health care in disarray

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  Despite state's push to privatize prisons, switching to public healthcare would save the state between $40M and $46M yearly

• Ala. counties say prison reforms created financial burdens

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  Laws passed to reduce prison crowding has burdened counties to house inmates without any funding to cover the cost

• New Fla. corrections secretary says 'status quo' in prison system can't continue

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  Mark Inch told lawmakers staffing shortages and funding shortfalls contribute to inmate violence and CO injury

• Officials: Mass Okla. inmate release would be nation's largest

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  The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board will commute the sentences of over 400 non-violent offenders

• Calif. eases mandatory sentences, bars charging inmates for medical care

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  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed more than two dozen criminal justice bills Tuesday

• Koch exec, Black Lives Matter in group pushing prison reform

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  The unlikely collaboration is focused on finding solutions to problems like the effects of a 1994 crime bill in policing and prisons

• Ga. county commission passes no-cash bond measure

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  The commission has voted to stop requiring cash bail for people accused of violating ordinances, allowing them to be released on their own recognizance

• '3 strikes' sentencing reform leaves out Wash. inmates

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  Washington's 1993 three-strikes law was among the first and stands out as among the nation's strictest

• Jails emptying as criminal justice reform quietly takes hold in NH

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  Several jails are seeing lower inmate populations, with some dropping by almost half

• Group seeks to reduce Okla.'s high incarceration rate

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  Many of the proposals are facing fierce opposition from district attorneys and law enforcement

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