A former city prison guard was indicted today on charges that he smuggled drugs, cigarettes and cell phones into a prison in a scheme to sell them to prisoners last May.By Dana DiFilippo - Tuesday, February 5, 2013Dion Reid, 35, of Philadelphia, was charged with two counts each of honest services...
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By Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, February 4, 2013 (IPS) - The research wing of the U.S. Congress is warning that three decades of “historically unprecedented” build-up in the number of prisoners incarcerated in the United States have led to a level of overcrowding that is now “taking a toll on the in...
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A trio of heroic prison inmates who were doing maintenance in a park helped save three brothers whose kayak overturned in a frigid, fast-moving creek. 'Just because we're incarcerated doesn't mean we're bad people,' one inmate says.Larry Bohn, Nelson Pettis and Jon Fowler, who are inmates at Larc...
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Chanda Kline winces as she undergoes treatment to have her tattoos removed at Tallman Medical Spa. Before laser treatment begins, she tolerates a series of injections to numb the area. BILLINGS — After spending three years in the Montana Women’s Prison on felony drug posses...
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by Shankar Vedantam -January 30, 2013Prison provides an opportunity for networking with more seasoned criminals.In popular lore - movies, books and blogs - criminals who go to prison don't come out reformed. They come out worse.Scientists who have attempted to empirically analyze this theory hav...
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By Carl ToersBijns, former deputy warden, ASPC Eyman, Florence AZ January 28, 2013 For the past several decades, the prison management pendulum has swung prison operations into two main categories. The first is a strict authoritarian type or style / approach with...
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George Richert - Friday, 25 Jan 2013BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget plan calls for a hike in the minimum wage, but no increase in the pay that prisoners make.Fighting to get prisoners a pay raise may be an uphill battle, but one attorney is trying to make the case. It's be...
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Two weeks into her 13-month incarceration, Piper Kerman was seated in the mess hall of the federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, eating another desultory meal.By Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield - JANUARY 24, 2013Piper Kerman“Knowing less than nothing I began maligning the food,...
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Ryan Leaf Sent to Prison after getting kicked out of drug programAssociated Press - January 17, 2013HELENA, Mont. -- Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been moved from a drug treatment center to the Montana State Prison for threatening a staff member and violating his treatment plan, a correc...