By Andrew Wolfson - Louisville Courier Journal Jan 18, 2024 Children have been held in Kentucky state custody at the Adair County Youth Detention Center in conditions so barbaric they would violate the Geneva Convention and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to ...
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I met Kerry during a long stint in prison. I never expected that she’d become the love of my life. BY THOMAS GANT JAN 21, 2024 As I looked at the woman I was about to marry, I was filled with amazement and gratitude. We weren’t able to have the kind of wedding mos...
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I thought an ankle monitor would feel like freedom. Instead, it reminded me of the weight of my new world. BY AARON M. KINZER Dec 13, 2023 This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. While serving 13 years i...
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By Amy Yurkanin | ayurkanin@al.com December 13, 2023 A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday said prisoners in Alabama have been denied parole and forced to work jobs at fast food restaurants as part of a “labor-trafficking scheme” that generates $450 million a year for the state, a...
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By Mysoon Khan, Associated Press November 30, 2023 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners after tests of suspected contraband substances falsely tested positive for drugs, according to a report released Thursday. In hundreds ...
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FTX founder learns that mackerel is a jailhouse currency and shares a dorm with other high-profile defendants Mackerel packets, known as ’macks,’ are a favored federal jailhouse currency after officials banned smoking. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; PHOTO: BIL...
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By Walter Pavlo - Forbes November 22, 2023 It has been five years since President Donald Trump signed the sweeping criminal justice regulation called the First Step Act (FSA). FSA allowed many federal inmates to earn credits to reduce their sentence or to transition to home ...
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James Powel, USA TODAY Thu, November 16, 2023 A Houston man who said he "has been to jail a million times" became a hero when he helped pull a wounded police officer to safety during a highway shootout with a carjacking suspect. John Lally found himself ...
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Under the law, a person's felony records will be sealed eight years after conviction or release from prison; three years for a misdemeanor New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Clean Slate Act (S.7551A/A.1029C), which allows certain criminal records to be sealed years after...