A group of inmates imprisoned at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in upstate New York will be allowed to watch Monday’s solar eclipse after suing the state’s corrections department over a planned lockdown that would have forced them to stay indoors. Attorneys for the six inmates housed at the facility in Sullivan County said in a […]
Mississippi authorities captured one escapee and are still looking for a second man after the pair broke out of a detention facility Monday morning, just a little over a month after four other men had escaped the same jail. Michael Lewis, 31, and Joseph Spring, 31, were discovered missing from the Raymond Detention Center, about […]
HENDERSON, KY—A convicted murderer who escaped last week from a northwest Ohio prison with another inmate by hiding in a trash container was found dead Sunday after his body was spotted floating in the Ohio River, police in Kentucky said. The discovery brought to a close a manhunt for the missing inmate, Bradley Gillespie, 50. […]
LIMA, Ohio—One of two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison was captured early Wednesday in Kentucky after a police pursuit of a stolen car the men were believed to be in ended in a crash and a foot chase, authorities said. James Lee, 47, was captured at the scene but Bradley Gillespie, 50, remained […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Two inmates in a Virginia jail used primitively made tools to create a hole in the wall of their cell and escape, only to be found hours later at an IHOP restaurant nearby, a sheriff said. Authorities discovered the two men, ages 37 and 43, missing from their cell in the Newport News […]
ABINGDON, Va.—Two inmates who fled a southwest Virginia jail were being held without bond on Saturday after they were captured in northeast Tennessee, authorities said. Officers located Johnny Shane Brown and Albert Lee Ricketson in a barn on Friday in Rogersville, Tennessee, and arrested them without incident, the sheriff’s office in Washington County, Virginia, said […]
FARMINGTON, Mo.—Authorities are piecing together how five inmates escaped from a Missouri jail. The inmates escaped from the the St. Francois County Jail in Farmington, about 75 miles south of St. Louis on Tuesday evening, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Gregory Armstrong told the newspaper that the inmates got into a cell […]
JACKSON, Mich.—When Scott Steffes leaves Michigan’s Parnall Correctional Facility this month he anticipates entering a new career that will take him upward of 25 feet above ground. Steffes, 37, is one of more than a dozen prisoners learning how to climb trees and trim branches around power lines as part of DTE Energy’s $70 million […]
Oregon Gov.Kate Brown announced on Dec. 13 that 17 inmates awaiting execution will instead have their death sentences changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible […]
California is losing businesses. Major corporations are moving their headquarters out of the state. As businesses leave, so do the people. One man is bringing people together over one shared topic: leaving California. PayPal has brought back its misinformation fine that could cost users $2,500—after they said it was a mistake. A teacher in Sacramento […]
QUITO, Ecuador—The death toll from a bloody fight among inmates at a prison in central Ecuador rose to 16 Tuesday, and authorities said one of the dead was an alleged drug gang boss who had evaded charges in Peru by faking his death during the pandemic. Officials said the number of wounded from clashes among […]
More than 1.1 million incarcerated individuals received COVID-19 stimulus checks, totaling over $1 billion, says Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) who got the information from the IRS, according to The Washington Free Beacon. Senate Democrats voted 50–49 against an amendment proposed by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to block the checks from going to inmates.
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 10 that Gov. Kate Brown has the authority to grant early releases to almost 1,000 convicted inmates, including 73 convicted of murder, assault, rape, and manslaughter. The governor’s 2020 decision was challenged by two district attorneys and families of crime victims.
Four inmates who escaped a minimum-security housing unit in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are back in custody, just hours after their getaway Saturday, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. The search for the inmates—William Atkins, Johnny Bryant, Justin Lynn Conner, and Trevor Lynn Hall—began around 5:30 a.m. Saturday when corrections officers with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s […]
ABUJA—Around 440 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Boko Haram terrorists on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said. The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari—who was not present—heading to his hometown in the northern state of […]
HOPEWELL, Va.—All four inmates who escaped a minimum-security prison satellite camp in Virginia over the weekend are now back in custody, the U.S. Marshals Service and Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Wednesday. The inmates were discovered missing from the satellite camp of the Federal Correctional Complex Petersburg in Hopewell, Virginia, around 1:45 a.m. Saturday, the […]
One of three inmates who escaped a Missouri jail last week by cutting holes in the plaster ceiling of their cells has been captured nearly 1,000 miles away in Wyoming, a county sheriff said. Christopher Blevins, 37, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Casper, Wyoming, about 950 miles northwest of the Cassville, Missouri, jail […]
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 Lindsay Zack, 36, and Randy Eugene Broome, 45, were found unconscious by Greenville County jail employees around 4 p.m. Thursday. The Greenville County Coroner’s Office said Friday that the […]
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 female inmates are pregnant and suggests that a transgender inmate is responsible.
