Polk County Jail inmates are exploring the internet, watching movies and contacting loved ones through a pilot project that gives them access to tablet computers. March 30, 2017 - US NEWS DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Polk County Jail inmates are exploring the internet, watching ...
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March 29, 2017 - NY Post - Yoav Gonen and Shawn Cohen Every inmate who leaves a Big Apple jail after serving a sentence will have a job waiting for him or her, under a new city-funded initiative, Mayor de Blasio announced Wednesday. When asked why ex-convicts were being guar...
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By AnneClaire Stapleton - Thu February 9, 2017 Inmates trying to break out of prison is nothing new. But inmates breaking out, then breaking right back in? It's apparently been happening for years at a federal facility in Atlanta. Back in January 2013, the Atlan...
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By Rhonda Cook Feb. 22--The grill is hot and on any given night it could be cooking up cheeseburgers with bacon, ribs steeped in Jack Daniels sauce or chicken rubbed with spices. Sometimes shrimp, calamari and clams are on the menu. Liquor and beer are readily available. So...
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By Tim Ahrens The Payne County Jail, like many other county jails according to Sheriff R.B. Hauf, relies heavily on inmates in trusty programs to keep things running in the jail. That could range anywhere from working in the jail's garden, which saved Payne Cou...
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By Chris Perez The prison inmate who pounded on Jared Fogle last year is getting rock star treatment — receiving fan mail and other forms of love from sex abuse victims and random people on the outside. “I am writing to thank you for the beatdown you gave to Jare...
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By Todd Unger FORT WORTH -- The parents of a man killed in a robbery at a putt-putt golf facility in Hurst more than a decade ago are now pushing for man convicted of murdering him to have his execution called off. Paul Storey is set to be put to death on April 1...
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By Beth Smith It's been in the paperwork and planning stages for years. However, the first steps to actually constructing the roughly $2 million addition to the Henderson County Detention Center began Monday morning with crews moving dirt and preparing ground....
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By Lauren Foreman A Marietta man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole after pleading guilty to sodomizing a 12-year-old boy. Andres Perez Brito, 38, was renting a room in the victim’s Lassiter Road residence at the time of the June 2014 attack...