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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...

July 31, 2019 A former Brooklyn jail guard convicted of sexually abusing multiple female inmates was sentenced to 25 years behind bars Wednesday — after the judge teared up and thanked one of his accusers for speaking out. “Thank you so much for coming forward an...

A manhunt is underway for Curtis Ray Watson, who escaped from West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning. August 9, 2019 A huge manhunt is underway in Tennessee for an inmate accused of killing a 64-year-old prison administrator before he escaped. The Tennesse...

August 7, 2019 Nashville, TN – Cyntoia Brown was released from a Tennessee prison on Wednesday after serving 15 years of a life sentence for the 2004 murder of a Nashville real estate agent. Brown was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women on parole, accord...

Saturday, August 3rd 2019 by Rebekah Castor ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FL — An inmate in the Escambia County Jail is charged a $20 booking fee and a daily $3 fee for meals. Upon release, the former inmate is given a Numi debit card. This allows the inmate to access any mone...

FRACKVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Philadelphia man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he didn't commit is a free man — 17 years after another man confessed to the crime. John Miller was released Wednesday after 22 years in prison. Surrounded by family outside the State Cor...