Law students volunteer at juvenile detention center
By Rachel Hinton While many students were relaxing or seeing family over their spring breaks, a group of 12 DePaul students was teaching legal lessons to teenagers at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) as part of a collaboration between three law centers to help...
Tablets Let Inmates Go Online at Polk County Jail
Polk County Jail inmates are exploring the internet, watching movies and contacting loved ones through a pilot project that gives them access to tablet computers. March 30, 2017 - US NEWS DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Polk County Jail inmates are exploring the internet, watching...
NYC Mayor De Blasio wants to employ every inmate who served time in jail
March 29, 2017 - NY Post - Yoav Gonen and Shawn Cohen Every inmate who leaves a Big Apple jail after serving a sentence will have a job waiting for him or her, under a new city-funded initiative, Mayor de Blasio announced Wednesday. When asked why ex-convicts were being...
Atlanta inmates bust in, out of the pen...repeatedly
By AnneClaire Stapleton - Thu February 9, 2017 Inmates trying to break out of prison is nothing new. But inmates breaking out, then breaking right back in? It's apparently been happening for years at a federal facility in Atlanta. Back in January 2013, the Atlanta Police...
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