Death before Sentencing: Ending Rampant Suicide, Overdoses, Brutality, and Malpractice in America's Jails - Hardcover

Klein; Andrew R.; Jessica L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 153816227X ISBN 13: 9781538162279

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

How have jails become the deadliest waiting rooms in America?
Death before Sentencing provides a sweeping exposé of thousands of avoidable deaths that have occurred in the U.S. county and local jail systems within the past few decades. These deaths have been overlooked, under-investigated, and even covered-up as jail systems avoid responsibility and refuse to take action.
This is the most complete investigation of the deadly side of jails, describing the daily deaths of detainees, including those from suicides, untreated drug and alcohol withdrawal, forced restraint and brutality, and general medical malpractice provided by for-profit correctional medical providers. The lack of attention and responsibility paid by state and local officials, law enforcement, and medical examiners has facilitated these ongoing and increasing avoidable deaths.
Looking forward to reforms being initiated by the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division and within state legislatures and celebrating successful lawsuits, Andrew R. Klein lays out institutional reforms required to curtail the epidemic of the daily deaths in America’s jails.

About this title

About the Authors

Andrew R. Klein, Ph.D., has worked in corrections since his appointment as a probation officer in the 1970’s. For the last decade, he has worked with prisons and jails across the country to advance substance use disorder programs, becoming intimately acquainted with the nation’s jails and their challenges, struggles, successes, and failures, as well as the men and women who run and staff them. Klein is a recognized national leader for correctional reform.

Jessica L. Klein is a Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate for Beth Israel Hospital, New York, NY, providing advocacy, counseling, safety planning, and service referrals to patients admitted to Emergency Department after experiencing sexual assault or intimate partner violence. She is also a Rape Crisis Counselor on a hotline for the Anti-Violence Project, a New York based organization that services LGBTQ and HIV-affected people across New York City. She has provided training at the Judicial Domestic Violence Training for Hawaiian Judges, training judges on the basic warning signs/components of intimate partner violence. She is also a contributor for Thomson-West’s National Bulletin on Domestic Violence Prevention.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 153816227X
• ISBN 13: 9781538162279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330