Graduates of Cal State L.A.'s prison degree program march through the yard for their graduation ceremony inside the California State Prison in Lancaster. The program is the first of its kind in California. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) The 25 graduates marched to the middl...
Articles
-
-
November 4, 2021 MADISON, Wis. - Inmates in Wisconsin state prisons will receive photocopies of their personal mail and not the originals beginning next month. The Department of Corrections is implementing the new policy to stop the infiltration of paper laced with a synthet...
-
October 15, 2021 By Laura Haefeli A Folsom State Prison guard credits four inmates for saving his life after he suffered a heart attack. One of the inmates had a background in medicine. Only 14 inmates work for California Prison Inmate Authority’s brail...
-
“This is a form of incarceration that happens outside of prison walls,” said one expert. Sept. 23, 2021 By Cyrus Farivar - NBC News In the past 18 months, as the judicial system has increasingly used electronic monitoring instead of prisons to monitor ...
-
Residents Julio Orsini and Jesse Mackin share a meal together with staff during lunch break in the garden at the Mountain View Correctional Faciltiy in Charleston Maine in August of 2021. September 17, 2021 By Susan Sharon Food served in prisons and ja...
-
Maurice "Mo" Fayne has been sentenced to 17-and-a-half years in prison. (Photo: Instagram) September 15, 2021 By Raechal Shewfelt Rapper Maurice "Mo" Fayne, who appeared on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta when he was engaged to cast mem...
-
September 10, 2021 By Andrew Sheeler - Sacramento Bee A correctional officer from San Quentin State Prison this week appeared in federal court to face charges that he smuggled cellphones into death row in exchange for money. Keith Christopher, 37, of Pittsburg was...
-
August 10, 2021 By Jared Bennett / kycir.org Calls from the Louisville jail are unlikely to be free even after the city gives up its revenue from the calls. That’s because phone vendor Securus Technologies still has to get paid. The budget passed by Lou...
-
July 14, 2021 By Meg Kinnard COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal regulators are giving state prisons across the country more technological options to combat contraband cellphones, which prison officials have long said represent the greatest security threat behind bars....