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After prison, more punishment

They did their time. But as the formerly incarcerated reenter the workforce, will their past be held against them? Meko Lincoln, 46, wants to be a licensed chemical dependency clinician, but his years in prison could work against him. Partaja Spann-Taylor, 34, wants to be a...

Nevada Inmate Released From Prison After 33 Years on Death Row

Was kept in prison even after his murder conviction was quashed August 21, 2019 Paul Browning was released from Ely State Prison on Wednesday after spending 33 years on death row. Browning, 63, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1985 stabbing of Las Vegas...

Barr removes US Bureau of Prisons chief following Epstein’s death in jail

August 19, 2019 WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr removed the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons Hugh J. Hurwitz, the Justice Department said Monday, replacing the agency's top official in the wake of the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this month. In a...

Attorney who helped end indefinite solitary confinement is banned from California prisons

Suit filed by leaders of statewide prison hunger strike August 16, 2019 By NATE GARTRELL Anne Butterfield Weills, an Oakland civil rights attorney whose work was key in ending the widespread use of solitary confinement in California prisons, has been banned for life from...