‘Surge’ of violence prompts crackdown in California prison system, officials say
The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...
Charles Manson's Cause of Death Revealed
The cause of death for notorious cult leader Charles Manson was acute cardiac arrest, with colon cancer as a factor. That's ...
Fentanyl dealer gets 6 years for death of SoCal teen. Parents say it’s not enough
The dealer who sold Jax Markley a fatal fentanyl pill will serve six years — a conviction made possible by a new effort to ...
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America’s Human Rights Crisis: Prison Slavery
The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...
Crime and Public Safety
Prosecutors there have charged Yandell, a leader of the White supremacist prison gang, with attempted murder, stemming from ...
CT high-security prison incarcerates 547. Why correction officers are talking to some, one at a time
A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...
Two San Diego women talk about their path to success after leaving the criminal justice system
One woman was tutoring other former inmates in a post-prison program, helping them get better grades when a staff member ...
Aryan Brotherhood leader charged with attempting to kill guards, but he’s already serving two life sentences
Prosecutors there have charged Yandell, a leader of the White supremacist prison gang, with attempted murder, stemming from ...
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A Prison-Based Program Interrupts the Cycle of Violence
When she received an invitation to speak at the California Institution for Men, a prison in the city of Chino, California, in August, she saw a new opportunity to help interrupt the cycle of domestic ...
Borrowing from Norway, a Connecticut prison tries a new approach
Correction officers spend unstructured time with the incarcerated in the new model, hoping to stem problems before they start.
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Louisiana's execution protocol unsealed. New detailed plans to use nitrogen gas released.
Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution ...