How a Troubled Police Department Is Shaping Buffalo’s Mayoral Race Citing years of police brutality and racial disparities in arrests, activists are pushing candidates to embrace reforms ahead of next week’s Democratic primaries. Raina Lipsitz
Pregnant Woman in Pennsylvania Jail Denied Release An Erie County judge said the pregnant 20-year-old would be ‘safer’ in jail from the COVID-19 outbreak. Victoria Law
In Erie County, Jail Deaths Continue Despite High-Profile Tragedy The death of 27-year-old India Cummings in 2016 garnered national media attention and a renewed push by local activists over conditions of confinement in the New York county’s jails. But the deaths haven’t stopped. Raina Lipsitz
The Appeal Podcast: A Pattern of Jail Deaths in Western New York—and Across the Country With Appeal contributor Raina Lipsitz Adam H. Johnson
24 Prisoners Have Died on Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard’s Watch Reports detail suicides and care for one woman that was ‘so grossly incompetent and inadequate as to shock the conscience.’ Raina Lipsitz
