By Brittany Hailer and Charlie Deitch Pittsburgh Current brittany@pittsburghcurrent.com or charlie@pittsburghcurrent.com Since becoming Allegheny County Chief Executive in 2012, Rich Fitzgerald has never attended a Jail Oversight Board meeting. Instead,…
By The Pittsburgh Current info@pittsburghcurrent.com UPDATE: Less than 24 hours after publishing this series, 13 incarcerated persons tested positive for COVID-19 at the Allegheny County Jail resulting in a total…
By Charlie Deitch Pittsburgh Current Editor charlie@pittsburghcurrent.com While incarcerated individuals at the Allegheny County Jail won’t get universal testing, they will be getting $50 in their accounts from the county’s…
By Charlie Deitch Pittsburgh Current Editor charlie@pittsburghcurrent.com Just because there’s a pandemic on, doesn’t mean that black inmates get any more help or leniency from the justice system than they…
By Charlie Deitch Pittsburgh Current Editor charlie@pittsburghcurrent.com “Numbers don’t lie.” We’ve all heard that old trope millions of times in the past. But what can also be said is that…
