France cuts prison activities to smooth facial massage outcry
France's powerful justice minister on Monday announced the government was restricting nearly all recreational activities for prisoners after it emerged ...
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Wisconsin governor floats plan to close 19th-century prison and overhaul corrections system
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under ...
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Aryan Brotherhood members found guilty of ordering L.A. County murders from prison
Three members of the Aryan Brotherhood were found guilty of racketeering Friday in a trial that revealed five murders on ...
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Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...
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Federal prisons, plagued with ‘a critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure and limited budgetary resources,’ are being used for Trump’s immigration crackdown todayheadline
In Trump’s last term, asylum seekers sued over spoiled milk and inedible food in rundown federal prisons. Read More
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13-year-old girl scribbled ‘Help me!’ Now abductor is headed to prison
A Texas man was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for kidnapping a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio, driving ...
Read moreDetailsFormer college adjunct professor gets 8 years in prison for sexually abusing women from El Salvador
NEW YORK -- A former City College chemistry adjunct professor was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for sexually ...
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Judge blocks transfers of 3 transgender inmates to men’s prison
WASHINGTON — A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s ...
Read moreDetailsIdentity thief whose deception led to his victim’s incarceration gets a 12-year prison term
An information technology expert who for decades assumed the identity of another man so convincingly that his victim was forcibly ...
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Why incarcerated workers play a key role in fighting California’s fires
Los Angeles, California – As a series of wind-driven wildfires caused unprecedented destruction in southern California this month, fire crews ...
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