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BY TYLER KENDALL OCTOBER 13, 2020  / CBS  When you ask Shawn Barrera-Leaf how long her 27-year-old son, Gabe, has been incarcerated, she responds with precise accuracy. "Nine-hundred and seventy-five days," she told CBS News last month. Barrera-Leaf, 57,...

Joseph Falcone, 60, formerly operated the 3G's VINO LLC, a wine and liquor distributor based in Bethpage and Farmingdale, New York October 11, 2020 A former wine and liquor distributor was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Friday for using the show "Shark ...

Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server. HomeWAV, a prison video visitation tech company, exposed thousands of phone calls between inmates and their families, but also calls with their attorneys that were supposed to be protected by attorney-client privilege. &...

Robbie Hall earned 60 cents an hour sewing masks at a factory in a women’s prison in Chino. She was hospitalized with a serious case of COVID-19 in May after an outbreak there. (Illustration by Alex Tatusian / Los Angeles Times) By Kiera Feldman - LA Times OCT. 1...

Jason Jones spent nearly 14 years in prison. After learning to code while still incarcerated, today he uses his experience to teach others how coding can improve social mobility and reduce recidivism. Jason Jones, remote instruction manager at The Last Mile. Octo...

Sept 1, 2020 By Kevin Johnson - USA Today The federal prison system, the largest in the country, is preparing to resume inmate visitation in October, seven months after social visits were suspended due to the threat posed by the deadly coronavirus, officials said...

The unsecured database contained identifiable information of inmates and their contacts. September 5, 2020 By Mariella Moon Telmate, a widely used prison phone service, left millions of inmates’ and their contacts’ data exposed online, according to Comparitech. Th...

...with many new restrictions Sep 2, 2020 By Walter Pavlo - Forbes Federal prison visitation, when it resumes, is going to look a lot different than it did before COVID-19 halted the privilege on March 13, 2020. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) issued new guida...

By Harmeet Kaur - CNN Wed August 26, 2020 A group of men incarcerated at a jail in Georgia are being credited with saving the life of a sheriff's deputy. Gwinnett County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Edmond was conducting a routine cell search in a housing unit at the ...