The entrance to a federal prison camp in West Virginia. By John McClellan - September 19, 2012 John is in his early 50s. He's a little paunchy. He wears glasses. He's about to go to federal prison and he's scared. Sitting across from him at th...
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By Bill McClellanA little more than a year ago, I wrote about John.“John is in his early 50s. He’s a little paunchy. He wears glasses. He’s about to go to federal prison and he’s scared.”He had been sentenced to a year and a day for embezzling. The sentencing was in the federal courthouse in East...
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The the super-maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colo. - Photo by Bob Daemmrich/AFP/Getty ImageBy Justin PetersOn Oct. 22, 1983, inmates aligned with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang murdered two corrections officers at the United States Penitentiary near Marion, Ill. The reverberatio...
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A Florida community is breathing easier with the news that two escaped inmates, Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker, are once again behind bars.Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyBy Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News - October 20, 2013Two convicted killers ...
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Convicted killers Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker we released over a month ago with forged court documentsBarbara Schmitt and Scott Winthers - Oct 17, 2013A manhunt is underway in central Florida where law enforcement officials have launched an all-hands-on-deck search for two convicted kille...
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Bill Baker returned to Alcatraz for the first time since he was an inmate there more than 50 years ago.By Laura Sullivan - October 14, 2013For 29 years, Alcatraz - the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco - housed some of the nation's worst criminals: Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Bird...
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Programs look at prisoners' biographies for patterns that predict future crime At the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas, corrections officials collect biographical data on inmates that will be evaluated by the state parole board. Kael Alford - The Wall Street Journal...
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By Ross Levitt - CNN - October 10, 2013Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday was sentenced to 28 years in prison after he was convicted in March of two dozen federal charges.The charges include racketeering, extortion and the filing of false tax returns. He was accused of using th...
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A church inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, one of many in the sprawling prison, draws about 200 inmates for biweekly services.By ERIK ECKHOLM - October 5, 2013ANGOLA, La. - Like most of his fellow inmates, Daryl Walters, 45, can expect to spend the rest of his days in the infam...