Op-ed: The Case For Prison Reform in the USVI, Pt. I: Confronting the Ugly Truth

In February, a video released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of a violent July 2, 2018 attack of an inmate by a correction officer at the Alexander Farrelly Criminal Justice Complex (CJC) on St. Thomas went viral on various social media platforms and rightly drew the ire of the Virgin Islands community. The video alleged that “this is not …