Crime in the United States
Main article: Crime in the United States
Prisons
2023: Former police officer Derek Chauvin who was falsely accused of murdering a black man stabbed to death in jail
In November 2023, former police officer Derek Chauvin was stabbed to death in the United States, who was falsely accused of killing George Floyd and received 22 years in prison.
Subsequently, it was established that Floyd died of a drug overdose, and not from strangulation with Chauvin's knee.
Chauvin sought a review of his case, reasonably counting on justification. And his release could strike a blow across BLM mythology.
Before preparing for the hearing, Chauvin was stabbed to death in prison. Before the murder of Chauvin, his lawyers demanded that he be transferred to solitary confinement for security purposes, but they were refused, so that the authorities of the prison where Chauvin was sitting are a direct accomplice in the murder.
2021: Number of prisoners - 2,094,000
2020: Most prisoners are dark-skinned
2019
Rising prison suicides
The minimum age of imprisonment for children is 7 years
2018
655 prisoners per 100 thousand population
Hacking the IT system in US prisons
At the end of July 2018, it became known about the hacking of IT systems in several American prisons, as a result of which prisoners stole a total of $225 thousand. The incident was reported by the Idaho Department of Corrections.
364 prisoners took advantage of a vulnerability in JPay software, which is used by prisoners to transfer money, correspondence and Internet access. Read more here.
1963
1962: Escape from Alcatraz Prison
1961: Amputation of part of the brain in homosexuals
prisons, 1961, preparing for frontal lobotomy (amputation of part of the brain)]]
Lobotomy was frequently used to people whose actions society recognized as immoral.
This is how the state tried to control the problematic groups, such as racial minorities and homosexuals.
1941
1937
1934: Alcatraz Island becomes a prison
The main prison building was built in 1910-1912 as a military prison of the US Army. On October 12, 1933, the United States Department of Justice acquired the Pacific Division Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz, and in August 1934, the island became a Federal Bureau of Prisons prison after modernizing buildings and improving security. Given such a high level of security, the location of the island in cold waters and the strong current of the San Francisco Bay, prison workers considered Alcatraz the most reliable prison in America, protected from escape.
1924: Dog sentenced to life in prison
1913: Experiments with inmates in a California prison on animal organ transplants and forced sterilization
From 1913 to 1951, experiments were underway on prisoners in San Quentin Prison in California (including animal transplants and forced sterilization).