Leonard Peltier to be released following sentence commutation in FBI killings
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is set to be released from a Florida prison Tuesday based on former President Joe Biden ...
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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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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
Read moreDetailsAn ex-deep-sea treasure hunter jailed for nearly 10 years scores a legal win but won’t be freed
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose ...
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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US woman tried for 3 killings goes missing from a Mexican prison in 1969. Details finally emerge
The mystery of what happened to a U.S. woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a Mexican ...
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Colorado DNA crime analyst due in court to face forgery and other charges
DENVER -- A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA scientist faces 102 criminal charges, including dozens of counts of forgery, ...
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Make more use of open prisons, former minister says
More prisoners in the UK should go to open prisons to help reduce reoffending and avoid overcrowding, the man leading ...
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Indiana shrouds executions in secrecy, defying long tradition of public oversight
From public hangings in the town square to lethal injections witnessed by journalists, executions historically have mostly been carried out ...
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