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Testing for COVID-19 revealed the first case of infection on March 22 in Cook County Jail, Chicago. 10% of the 5,000 inmates were released as a cautionary measure, but the number of infections had risen to 134 by March 30. Fifteen inmates and eleven staff have tested positive at other facilities in the state, with at least 80 waiting for test ...
A man in India was kept in jail for an extra three years because prison authorities ... informing them that Thakor had successfully provided the required bond of Rs 20,000 (£200) and should be ...
Ninety-five percent of the total increase in U.S. jail populations has been due to the incarceration of unconvicted people, who represented 74% of the total jail population as of 2020. The use of pretrial detention at the federal level has risen from roughly 26% of defendants before 1984 (when the Bail Reform Act was passed) to 59% as of 2017 ...
By March 2020, the group reported having provided bail money in 500 cases, including a limited number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. [5] In early 2020, during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota, the group sought the release of more inmates, concerned about the virus spreading rapidly throughout the prison population.
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Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S. Lee was just the ...
In Kentucky, the Bail Project paid the $1,500 bond for Demontez Campbell after he missed a court date and was issued a bench warrant. [11] After the COVID-19 outbreak, The Bail Project set up a number of releases from Cook County Jail in Chicago. As of April 4, 2020, 60 inmates were projected to be released and between 500 and 1,000 were ...
The woman was hospitalized for about four months after open heart surgery, according to the lawsuit.