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Sheriff Fuson, Assistant Chief Deputy Joe Thomas, and community stakeholders held a recognition and graduation ceremony for current and previous inmates of the jail.(Clarksville NowContributed) June 22, 2022 By Lt. Mark J. Wojnarek - Clarksville Police Department...

Each face up to 30 years in federal prison Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the USA Network television show “Chrisley Knows Best,” at the Country Music Awards in 2017. They were convicted on Tuesday of financial crimes.Credit...Jordan Strauss/Invision, via AP Ju...

By Gary White, The Ledger June 1, 2022 LAKELAND — The man described as the longest-serving inmate for marijuana crimes in the country will be out of a South Florida prison before Christmas. Richard DeLisi, sentenced to 90 years by a Polk County judge after his con...

Decision bars federal courts from hearing new evidence not presented in a state court as a result of ineffective legal counsel By Ed Pilkington - The Guardian May 23, 2022 The US supreme court on Monday gutted constitutional protections that for years ...

By Patrick Reilly - NY Post May 10, 2022 An Alabama murder suspect was captured and the jail boss who helped him escape fatally shot herself on Monday after a 10-day manhunt that ended with a car chase in Indiana, officials said. Prison honcho Vicky Wh...

Prisoners earn Calvin degrees behind bars By Cory Morse May. 09, 2022 Scenes from the Calvin Prison Initiative commencement at the Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia on Monday, May 9, 2022. Prisoners earned degrees from Calvin Universit...

By Walter Pavlo - Forbes March 14, 2022 COVID-19 did something that years of criminal justice reform had failed to do; cut prison populations. The CARES Act, enacted in April 2020 to face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowed prisons to reduce the number of prison...

By Hani Barghouthi - The Detroit News April 3, 2022   Pontiac — Kwame Kilpatrick urged reform of Michigan's criminal justice system Sunday, expressing the life-saving value of hope during one of a growing number of public appearances made by the former Detroit may...

March 26, 2022 Washington Post Editorial Board Picking up the phone and placing a call in the United States today requires little planning, and not much thought — unless you’re in prison or jail, in which case the simple action becomes a tremendous undertaking. Congress now ...