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  1. Three times a year, 30 people at the Missouri prison where Jeshua Noel is incarcerated are chosen for what's known as a family restoration visit — a chance to wear your own clothes, eat food brought in by loved ones, and take a walk or play games with them. Only those who've met certain behavioral criteria are eligible, and then it's luck of the draw. This year, Jeshua was lucky. He describes what it was like. "It was beautiful to see my mother, grandmother and wife outside, to show them my temporary home. But I’m angry that reconnection is a controlled reward in prison, held just out of reach like bait."

    flip.it/3DUF7u

    #Incarceration #USPrisons #Prison #USPrisonSystem #Justice

  2. Since 2017, it’s been a requirement of Texas law that an outside authority investigate all jail deaths. That’s not happening in Tarrant County, where at least 70 people have died in jail custody since the current sheriff, Bill Waybourn, took office eight years ago. Waybourn — a Republican — was elected for a third term in November, but @bolts looks at how conservatives are starting to ask questions after gun rights activist Mason Yancy died in custody last December. “Some lawmakers’ answer to preventable deaths in county jails looks like a cover up: limit independent investigations, limit public information, limit oversight, limit liability,” Krishnaveni Gundu, co-founder and executive director of the Texas Jail Project, told Bolts.

    boltsmag.org/texas-jail-death-

    #Texas #Law #Crime #USLaw #USPrisonSystem #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

  3. When she was 15, April Barber Scales was convinced by the man, twice her age, who had impregnated her, to set her grandparents’ house on fire. Her grandparents died, and Barber Scales received two consecutive life sentences without parole. In 2022, she had been in prison for 31 years when under a clemency program for juvenile lifers established by then North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, she was released. Since then, she has completed an associate’s degree and is now finishing a bachelor’s in criminal justice. She works, volunteers, studies, and thrives. @bolts reports on other successes from the program, and how those who remain in jail hope it continues under the governorship of Josh Stein.

    boltsmag.org/north-carolina-ju

    #NorthCarolina #USPrisonSystem #Crime #USNews #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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