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This photo provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows Cheryl Weimar. Weimar, an inmate at a Florida prison is suing the state corrections agency, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, saying she was left paralyzed after being beaten by four guards. Weimar, and her husband, Karl, said in t...

Ferrell Scott is spending life in federal prison for selling large amounts of marijuana. Entrepreneurs are making millions now doing the same thing. September 5, 2019 By Eileen Rivers, USA TODAY It was 2012, and Ferrell Scott was watching television in...

Sep. 4, 2019 This letter, written by inmate Wayne Pray, is part of USA TODAY's Lifers series, which focuses on people who will likely remain incarcerated for the rest of their lives for nonviolent offenses, despite last year's enactment of the federal First Step Act. The se...

They did their time. But as the formerly incarcerated reenter the workforce, will their past be held against them?     Meko Lincoln, 46, wants to be a licensed chemical dependency clinician, but his years in prison could work against him. Partaja Spann-Taylor, 34, wants to be...

Was kept in prison even after his murder conviction was quashed August 21, 2019 Paul Browning was released from Ely State Prison on Wednesday after spending 33 years on death row. Browning, 63, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1985 stabbing of Las Vegas...

August 19, 2019 WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr removed the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons Hugh J. Hurwitz, the Justice Department said Monday, replacing the agency's top official in the wake of the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this month. In a stateme...

Suit filed by leaders of statewide prison hunger strike August 16, 2019  By NATE GARTRELL Anne Butterfield Weills, an Oakland civil rights attorney whose work was key in ending the widespread use of solitary confinement in California prisons, has been ...

August 14, 2019   Todd and Julie Chrisley pleaded not guilty to tax evasion and other federal charges in a Georgia court on Wednesday. The stars of Chrisley Knows Best surrendered to authorities earlier in the day. According to reports, Todd and Julie were each released on $...

Questions raised over disgraced financier's death - near impossible for SHU inmates to kill themselves August 10, 2019 New York - Jailed multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, two law enforcement sources said Sa...