An acting warden will take over for Matthew Magnusson while the allegations of hazing, harassment and retaliation among employees and inmates are investigated. By Dennis Hoey - Press Herald Feb 21, 2024 An acting warden has been appointed at the Maine State Prison...
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Over 18,000 people are released annually from NC correctional facilities, facing obstacles due to their criminal records Associated Press January 30, 2024 North Carolina has joined a nationwide effort to improve outcomes for released prisoners, focusing on ...
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This April 22, 2009 photo shows a view of the front entrance of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. Judi Bottoni | AP JAN 29 2024 - Associated Press A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave ...
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By Andrew Wolfson - Louisville Courier Journal Jan 18, 2024 Children have been held in Kentucky state custody at the Adair County Youth Detention Center in conditions so barbaric they would violate the Geneva Convention and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to ...
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I met Kerry during a long stint in prison. I never expected that she’d become the love of my life. BY THOMAS GANT JAN 21, 2024 As I looked at the woman I was about to marry, I was filled with amazement and gratitude. We weren’t able to have the kind of wedding mos...
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I thought an ankle monitor would feel like freedom. Instead, it reminded me of the weight of my new world. BY AARON M. KINZER Dec 13, 2023 This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. While serving 13 years i...
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By Amy Yurkanin | ayurkanin@al.com December 13, 2023 A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday said prisoners in Alabama have been denied parole and forced to work jobs at fast food restaurants as part of a “labor-trafficking scheme” that generates $450 million a year for the state, a...
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By Mysoon Khan, Associated Press November 30, 2023 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners after tests of suspected contraband substances falsely tested positive for drugs, according to a report released Thursday. In hundreds ...
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FTX founder learns that mackerel is a jailhouse currency and shares a dorm with other high-profile defendants Mackerel packets, known as ’macks,’ are a favored federal jailhouse currency after officials banned smoking. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; PHOTO: BIL...