Escaped convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by authorities in upstate New York today, according to officials, 20 days after he made an elaborate escape from prison.Matt was shot and killed by a border patrol SWAT team at about 3:45 p.m. in Elephant's Head, New York, about 20 miles...
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Rapper held without bondRapper Rick Ross is facing kidnapping and assault charges after a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force and deputies arrested him at his mansion south of Atlanta early Wednesday, authorities said.Ross and a man described as his bodyguard were taken into custody in Faye...
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"I went to prison, and it nearly destroyed my family"More than half of inmates leave behind children under 18.By William Tank Black - June 19, 2015 - Washington PostWilliam Tank Black is a former sports agent and current Executive Director of Square One Awareness & Re-entry, a non-p...
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Escaped New York prisoners may have had help from staff: governorJune 7, 2015DANNEMORA, N.Y. - Two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday as a $100,000 reward was p...
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JUNE 4, 2015 | By Dave MaassSince at least 2011, U.S. prisons have had a special arrangement with Facebook. Prison officials would send links to profiles belonging to inmates that they wanted Facebook to take down. Facebook would then suspend the profiles, often no questions asked, even when it w...
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By Freddie Allen - June 5, 2015WASHINGTON (NNPA)–More than 40 states allow prison and jails to charge inmates “pay to stay” fees, according to a report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a debt burden that reaps billions of dollars for state and local jurisdictions, and disproportionately affects...
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The prison in Halden, Norway, shown here in April 2010, is surrounded by a 25-foot-high concrete wall and little else to suggest it's a maximum-security facility. The emphasis is on treating the prisoners with respect and giving them the skills to reintegrate into society when they leave. Heiko J...
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BOSTON-After ten weeks of heart-wrenching and often gruesome testimony from more than 150 witnesses, including survivors with missing limbs and an anguished father who spoke of watching his young son die on the sidewalk in front of him, a jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the death penalty for ...
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Pardoned man: No resentment for victim who identified himThis Aug. 22, 2013 photo provided by the Virginia Deptment of Corrections shows Michael Kenneth McAlister. Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, pardoned a Virginia man who has spent 29 years in prison for an attempted rape that ...