NOTICE TO INMATES: Initiative on Executive ClemencyOn April 23, 2014, the Department of Justice announced an initiative to encourage appropriate candidates to petition for executive clemency, seeking to have their sentences comm...
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder listens to President Barack Obama speak about the My Brother's Keeper Task ForceMore than 18,000 prisoners filled out electronic surveys to apply for reduced sentences from President Barack Obama in a new program designed to clear federal prisons of nonviolent ...
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Richard Perry - NY TImes - May 30,2014Otisville Correctional Facility is a medium-security state prison, 79 miles northwest of Manhattan, on the site of a former tuberculosis sanitarium - with an equalizing element of portent, near the town of Mount Hope. Many of its prisoners are serving life ...
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Hector Monsegur helped FBI thwart hundreds of cyberattacks sentenced to time served, will be freedHector Xavier Monsegur leaves court in New York, Tuesday, May 27, 2014NEW YORK- The infamous hacker known as Sabu who cooperated with the FBI for three years to take down his former associates and he...
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A detainee sits in a waiting room at temporary detention center run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for ICE in Houston. The cheap labor - 13 cents an hour ($1 per day) - saves the federal government and private companies taht operate most of the centers $40 million annually, by avoid...
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'Shield' actor charged in wife's deathLos Angeles (CNN)-- Actor Michael Jace is expected to make his first appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday to face a homicide charge in the shooting death of his wife, the district attorney's office said.Los Angeles police detectives will present the...
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An apparent gas explosion leveled the inside of the the Escambia County Central Booking and Detention Center Wednesday night, killing two inmates and injuring more than 180 other people.Part of the Escambia County, Florida, jail collapsed after an apparent gas explosion, killing two inmates and i...
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PENSACOLA, Fla. — The jail already had two feet of water in the basement from the record-setting rains when an apparent gas explosion leveled the inside of the building, killing two inmates and injuring more than 180 other people, officials said Thursday. In the rubble and ...
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By Aliyah FruminWhen Stephanie Nodd was released from prison on a warm Florida day back in November 2011, she confronted a world that was radically different than the one she left when she was put behind bars. After all, it had been 21 years.Her mother had passed away. Her five children were now ...