The Metropolitan Detention Center had been largely without power and heat for more than a week. Inmates have been banging on the windows of their cells to call attention to the conditions, and protesters have been rallying outside the jail calling for improvements. &...
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Harriet Alexander,The Telegraph Wed, Feb 13 His tunneling out of prison cells and safe houses has given him almost mythical status. So there is little doubt that when Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is sentenced in June he’ll be sent to the most secure prison in the United State...
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Hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people have had their voice added to the biometric database. January 30, 2019 By George Joseph, Debbie Nathan ROUGHLY SIX MONTHS ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a...
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Supporters of voting rights for ex-felons march in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in early November, ahead of their successful effort to amend the state constitution. (Steve Bousquet/Tampa Bay Times) By Lori Rozsa - Washington Post January 5 SARASOTA — One of the la...
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Inmates hailed as heroes for helping supervisor who fell ill, collapsed on roadside. The inmates grabbed James Smith's cell phone after he fell into a ditch, called 911 and waited until law enforcement and EMS arrived January 5, 2019 ELIZABETHTOWN, NC ...
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Prison fight kills sex ring leader, hurts 2nd defendant January 3, 2019 By Robert Snell and Cherles Ramirez - Detroit News Milan, MI — Christian Maire, the mastermind of an international child exploitation ring, was killed and a second defendant injur...
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The federal correctional complex in Coleman, FL., where hundreds of female staff members said they were abused by male inmates and colleagues. A congressional report released this week found that misconduct is largely tolerated in federal prisons. By Timothy Williams &...
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Anthony Gay outside his cousin's barbershop Nov. 11, 2018, in Rock Island. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) January 2, 2019 By Jeff Coen and Stacy St. Clair - Chicago Tribune With his mental state deteriorating as he sat in the crushing iso...
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The Moral Horror of America’s Prisons Congress isn’t doing enough to fix the current U.S. penal system, which is a failure of historic proportions. December 28, 2018 By Tyler Cowen - Opinion Now that President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan crimin...