Inmates
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GREENVILLE, S.C.—A coroner identified Friday two inmates who died in the same unit of a local jail in South Carolina the day before. Authorities said Allan ...
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You might not expect that women serving time in an all-female prison would become pregnant by other inmates. But the New Jersey Department of Corrections confirms that two ...
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Authorities are searching for three inmates who escaped from a jail in northeast Tennessee Friday morning, according to the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office. “All three are ...
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Five inmates, including two accused murderers, are on the run in Georgia after breaking out of jail. Authorities in pulaski county say the men escaped late ...
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ABUJA—A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been recaptured, the prison service said on Tuesday. Heavily ...
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A Wisconsin county jail will no longer refer to those incarcerated as “inmates,” but instead “residents” or “those who are in our care,” authorities announced. The ...
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MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s president said Thursday he will issue a decree that could release hundreds or thousands of elderly inmates or those who have spent ten years ...
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OSLO, Norway—Two inmates took a pair of prison guards hostage Wednesday at a Swedish penitentiary and are barricaded inside in what the country’s prison department called ...
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The federal government is pausing all executions of federal death row inmates until a policy review is completed. Advocates of the death penalty say it’s an ...
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Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S.—and nearly half still have not been caught.
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California is allowing tens of thousands of inmates to be released early. Many are violent, repeat felons. This, and the lenient laws on theft, are worrying ...
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Facts Matter (May 3): Security Breach After Arizona Court Released Sensitive Documents to the PublicIn Arizona, as the 2020 election audit continues, there has been a security breach after the Maricopa Court released sensitive documents to the public. It was ...
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SACRAMENTO—California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier as the state aims to further trim the population of ...
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Since January, 261 California prison inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Daily ...
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Inmates used hammers to attack staff members during a failed attempt to escape an Iowa prison, killing a nurse and an officer, kidnapping a third employee.
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A private prison is struggling to find facilities to take in nearly 800 inmates before its contract with the federal government expires in three months.
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QUITO, Ecuador—Sixty-two inmates have died in riots at prisons in three cities in Ecuador as a result of fights between rival gangs and an escape attempt, ...
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Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, broke out windows, and threw things from fourth-floor windows Saturday in the latest disturbance over concerns about the ...
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A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Feb. 2 that the state must begin vaccinating its more than 14,000 inmates across 14 prisons against COVID-19.
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Law enforcement officials on Thursday recaptured two inmates who escaped from a state prison in Florence, Arizona, over the weekend.
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Authorities in Northern California are hunting for six inmates who escaped from Merced County Downtown Jail over the weekend, police confirmed.
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A recent court ruling in California is sparking public concern. The California Supreme Court says inmates convicted of “nonviolent sex crimes” can qualify for early parole. ...
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Cook County Jail launched early voting over the weekend. It expects about 2-thousand pre-trial inmates to vote. That would be a 50% higher turnout than normal ...
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These men haul chainsaws, axes, and other heavy equipment through ankle-deep ash, up mountainsides, hacking at the earth in search of smoldering embers. And they do ...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that enables former inmates to withdraw guilty pleas and get their records expunged. The bill “will help ...
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The U.S. Justice Department announced September execution dates for two inmates, in what could be the sixth and seventh federal executions this summer.
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At least three death row inmates at California's San Quentin State Prison had CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and died, corrections officials says.
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In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have been releasing ICE detainees on the theory that they are safer outside detention centers from the CCP ...
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Some 450 inmates and staff have tested positive for CCP virus at Chicago's largest jail, county corrections officials said on April 9.
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Jails in New York, California, and several other states have begun releasing inmates to stop the spread of COVID-19 in jails.