By HLNtv.com Staff - Mon June 03, 2013Located five and a half miles from downtown Phoenix, Arizona, is the Estrella Women’s Jail. The correctional facility is home to nearly 1,000 female inmates, including convicted murderer Jodi Arias.Former prosecutor Nancy Grace went to the Estrella Jail and...
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State Correctional Institution - SCI Huntingdon PABy Julia Cass, INQUIRER STAFF WRITERPOSTED:July 25, 1994CAMP HILL, Pa. — Joseph Taylor considers himself a man who stands up for his rights and those of his fellow prisoners. Prison officials consider him an incorrigibly hostile inmate.Because of ...
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Alexis Wright listens to Justice Nancy Mills during her sentencing hearing at York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine on Friday, May 31, 2013. Wright was sentenced under a plea agreement to 20 counts including prostitution, conspiracy, tax evasion and theft by deception.By David Sharp - May...
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Inmates participate in a study program in Santa Ana, CA.(Spencer Grant/Getty Images)By EMILY DERUY - May 27, 2013Right now, taxpayers spend up to $70 billion each year to house the nation's two to three million prisoners. That works out to about $31,000 per inmate. One would think that with suc...
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Inmate Ricardo Garcia took part in a program where he was recorded reading a book at Sterling Correctional Facility. A DVD of the reading will be sent to his nephew.(RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)By Kirk Mitchell - The Denver Post - 05/25/2013STERLING — Eric Miller is doing time in prison for ...
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by Jamilah King, Thursday, November 15 2012 It’s estimated that there are over 2.7 million kids in the United States who have at least one parent in prison, most of which are hundreds of miles away from their homes. That figure is just one glimpse into the coll...
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By Nicole Flatow on Nov 19, 2012 Phone calls between prisoners and their families can cost as much as $17 for a 15-minute call, reaping generous profits in many states for both the phone companies that provide the service and the states, which receive what amount to legalized kickbacks. Recogniz...
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Hatty Lee by Leticia Miranda - Monday, May 14 2012 When Martha Wright’s grandson was moved to a prison outside of her hometown of Washington, DC., she didn’t expect that a short 5-minute conversation with him could cost up to $18. “You just have to get everything out in one line,” she laughs....
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by Crystal Cruz -May 22, 2013PHOENIX -- Convicted murderer Jodi Arias has big plans for life in prison.Arias shared them with the jury on Tuesday."In prison there are programs I can start and people that I can help and programs that I can participate in," Arias told jurors.According to...