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US jails rife with violence, abuse and overcrowding
In California, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles County jail of chaining mentally ill detainees to chairs for days at a time. In West Virginia, people held in the Southern Regional Jail sued the state, saying they found urine and semen in thei...
Texas prisons start 3D-denture printing program
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The first thing you notice about Richard Buehning is his salt-and-pepper beard. Shaggy and thick, it covers his mouth — and his lack of teeth. For the better part of two decades, that toothless grin has been a source of s...
Harris County Sheriff's Office starts telepsychiatry program
HOUSTON (AP) — The nice old man near Old Town Spring calls 911 every month or so to complain about people hiding in the attic of his home. The Houston Chronicle reports there's nothing there, of course, except the inventions of his dementia and...