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Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge

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Taylor Eldridge is a former Investigative Fellow. She is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on investigative journalism. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker.

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Feature December 15, 2020
Cops Could Use First Aid to Save Lives. Many Never Try.
Most officers get training to respond to injuries, but are often not required to use it.
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Feature November 21, 2018
Treatment Denied: The Mental Health Crisis in Federal Prisons
The Bureau of Prisons set higher standards for psychiatric care. But instead of helping more inmates, the agency dropped thousands from its caseload, data shows.
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Stephen Mader, a police officer in Weirton, West Virginia, was fired after not shooting a mentally ill man who was holding an unloaded gun in 2016.
Feature September 17, 2018
When Trying to Help Gets You Fired
For some cops, offering a hand could mean losing your job.
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Andrew Butler, who needed psychiatric care, was transferred from a hospital to a prison last year in New Hampshire.
News July 30, 2018
Sent to a Hospital, But Locked in Prison
Despite years of criticism, New Hampshire has no place but prison for the dangerously mentally ill.
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News June 28, 2018
Another Hurdle For Former Inmates: Their Teeth
For many recently-released prisoners, severe dental issues are just one more barrier to restarting their lives.
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Life Inside March 29, 2018
When You’re 16 and It’s Your First Time in Solitary
“I felt like I aged 10 years just by doing 20 days in there.”
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A Special Housing Unit at Onondaga County Justice Center in Syracuse, N.Y.
News March 28, 2018
Rikers Doesn't Put Teens in Solitary. Other New York Jails Do.
Even after the high-profile death of Kalief Browder, jails in the rest of the state routinely isolate juveniles.
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Johnson & Johnson has gotten approval to market Invega Sustenna as a drug that could potentially keep people with schizophrenia out of prison or jail.
News February 14, 2018
A Drug Company Says This Shot Will Keep You Out of Prison
Johnson & Johnson uses the prospect of jail time to market a schizophrenia drug.
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Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y., is one of the prisons where a pilot program requiring families to send care packages through private companies was temporarily installed and then suspended.
News January 12, 2018
New York Cancels Private Prison Care Packages Program
An uproar over cost, selection — and coloring books.
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Women at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y., in 2012.
News January 4, 2018
The Latest Big Win for Prison Privatization
It just got a lot harder to send a care package to New York prisoners.
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