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Luigi Mangione · New YorkThis story was originally published by Solitary Watch. In February, a violent fight broke out in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Brooklyn. It left people like Sean Chaney, who was released in January after spending 15 months in MDC, scrambling to learn the status of his friend and former cellmate, who was stabbed 18 times and hospitalized. At least nine other people sustained stab wounds. “This is the type of stuff tha…Read Article
Lockdowns, Violence, and “Barbaric Conditions” in a Federal Jail Known for its Famous Detainees
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YouTube · ConnecticutIn March 2018, J’Allen Jones, a 31-year-old Black man incarcerated at Garner Correctional Institution in Connecticut, died after refusing to comply with a strip search. When officers told Jones he needed to submit to the procedure, he resisted. That is when the violence started. Officers forced him onto a bed, pepper-sprayed him, and kneed him in the thighs. Then, officers placed a spit hood over his head, a practice that experts have linked to …See the Story
Strip Searches Have a Racist, Dehumanizing Legacy
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