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City Paper's February 2023 Jail Watch aggregates this month's jail news, including a new report on the abuse and neglect of people with mental health disabilities and results of county controller's audit of supports for kids with incarcerated parents.
City Paper's January 2023 Jail Watch aggregates this month's jail news, including a medically vulnerable man alleging the jail withheld his medication for sickle cell disease for months.
City Paper's December 2022 Jail Watch aggregates this month's Allegheny County Jail news, including the guard arrested for drugs and the results of Jail Oversight Board members' unannounced visits this fall.
City Paper's November 2022 Jail Watch aggregates this month's Allegheny County Jail news, including details on last weekend's heating failure, a modest expansion of the jail's ability to dispense methadone, and new cause of death determinations.
The majority of incarcerated people surveyed about conditions inside Allegheny County Jail said they found the food unsatisfactory, and sometimes inedible. They question whether this is a deliberate ploy to crank up spending at the commissary.