Death before Sentencing: Ending Rampant Suicide, Overdoses, Brutality, and Malpractice in America&#039;s Jails

Andrew R. Klein

doi:10.5771/9781538162286

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-6227-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-6228-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 318
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Booking versus Nonbooking Jails No access
2. Police Lockups No access
3. Municipal Jails No access
4. Tribal Jails No access
5. Private Prisons No access
2 A Step Back No access Pages 9 - 12
1. The Numbers No access
2. COVID-19 Jail Exodus No access
1. Cash Bail and Bail Bondspersons No access
2. Deinstitutionalization No access
3. Racism and the War on Drugs No access
4. Probation and Parole, Recycling Inmates No access
1. Medical Examiners, Coroners, and “Natural Deaths” No access
2. Suicides No access
3. Racism and Brutality: They Can’t Breathe in Jails, Too No access
4. Weapons of Detainee Destruction: Tasers, WRAP, Pepper Spray, and Restraint Chairs No access
5. Jails’ Toxic Environments No access
6. Drug and Alcohol Toxicity and Withdrawal No access
7. Security and Medical Providers Team Up to Deprive Care No access
8. Jail Medical Providers (Making Money, Limiting Care) No access
1. Sheriffs Investigate Themselves No access
2. County Prosecutors Cover for Deadly Jails No access
3. State Review of Jails Tepid and Ignored No access
4. U.S. Justice Department Ends Custody Death Investigations No access
5. Fighting Accountability No access
1. Jail Withdrawal Wrongful Death Lawsuits Awards/Settlements Growing No access
1. Holding Corrections Officers Accountable No access
2. Increasing Media Coverage No access
3. Increasing Prosecutorial Scrutiny No access
4. Electing Reform Sheriffs No access
5. Rebirth of U.S. Justice Department Oversight No access
6. Evicting For-Profit Medical Providers No access
7. Even Medical Examiners? No access
8. Lawsuits Bear Fruit No access
1. Ending Correctional Medicine through Medicaid Expansion No access
2. Increasing Jail Oversight No access
Conclusion No access Pages 211 - 214
1. Introduction No access
2. chapter 1 No access
3. chapter 2 No access
4. chapter 3 No access
5. chapter 4 No access
6. chapter 5 No access
7. chapter 6 No access
8. chapter 7 No access
9. chapter 8 No access
10. chapter 9 No access
11. conclusion No access
Bibliography No access Pages 257 - 306
Index No access Pages 307 - 316
About the Authors No access Pages 317 - 318