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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 ...

Albert et al. v. Global Tel*Link Corp. et al. - Three companies face a class action alleging they conspired to artificially inflate prices for single phone calls made by prison and jail inmates to those on the outside. June 29, 2020 by Corrado Rizzi - ClassAction.org &#...

FCI Miami Satellite Camp JULY 17, 2020  BY Carli Teproff AND DeVoun Cetoute - Miami Herald Miami’s Federal Correctional Institution went from prison to a petri dish in the span of a couple of weeks. Roughly a week ago, FCI had a handful of c...

More than 1,000 detainees and staff at the San Quentin State Prison have tested positive for Covid-19, corrections officials say. At least three death row inmates at California's San Quentin State Prison had coronavirus and died, corrections officials says. Scott...

Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested on charges that she helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit underage girls for sexual abuse. The two are seen here in 2005. July 2, 2020 The FBI has arrested British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell on multiple charges related to the serial ...

June 1, 2020   The Federal Bureau of Prisons on Monday announced it locked down all 122 facilities it oversees nationwide due to ongoing civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd. The temporary security measure that went into effect in the afternoon was ...

There have been COVID-19 cases involving inmates at the prison, but a cause of the disturbance at Lansing Correctional Facility was not clear. April 10, 2020 By Phil Helsel - NBC News A group of inmates at a Kansas prison took over a cell block and beg...

Inmates in a cell at California State Prison, Sacramento, near Folsom, CA. One inmate and five employees in the state's massive prison system have tested positive for coronavirus, leading to pressure on corrections officials to begin releasing some of California's 123,000 convic...

AFTER AMENDMENT 4 WAS PASSED, FLORIDA'S GOP-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE PUSHED THROUGH A BILL CLASSIFYING FINES AND FEES AS PART OF A SENTENCE. BY BREANNA EDWARDS · APRIL 8, 2020 A federal judge on Tuesday essentially reiterated that “he said what he said,” emphasizing that a pre...