The prison population is going up as prisons struggle with …
2 hours ago · The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already …
Virginia prison considered charging inmates who burned ... - NBC News
2 days ago · Kenneth Hunter was sentenced to 23 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense at age 21. Hunter told NBC News that after he served his sentence, which included two years at …
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23 hours ago · Human Rights activist and the editor and publisher of Prison Legal News Paul Wright discusses the prevalence of solitary confinement and other forms of torture in the US, …
Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their ... - NBC News
4 days ago · Shannon Agofsky, while incarcerated in a Texas prison, was convicted in the 2001 stomping death of a fellow inmate, Luther Plant, and a jury recommended a death sentence in …
The US government is closing a women's prison ... - Associated Press News
Dec 6, 2024 · The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six other facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, …
Prison operator under federal scrutiny spent millions settling ...
Oct 13, 2024 · Details of nearly 80 settlements provided to The Associated Press through public records requests allege brutal beatings, medical neglect and cruelty at CoreCivic’s four prisons …
A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death …
Nov 15, 2023 · Signed by 14 people incarcerated in one of the highest-security federal prisons in the country, the letter was an urgent warning for prison officials: Several corrections officers …
A warden faced discipline over abuse at a prison. Now he has a new …
Nov 1, 2024 · A warden who oversaw a culture of abuse at two different federal prisons has a new job — running a national training academy for the Bureau of Prisons.
Thousands of federal inmates become eligible for sentence …
Feb 1, 2024 · Thousands of federal inmates, who are disproportionately Black and Hispanic, became eligible on Thursday for reduced sentences, and in many cases immediate release …
Federal prisons remain locked down from coast to coast after …
Feb 1, 2022 · The nationwide lockdown affecting 122 prisons continued Tuesday after two inmates involved in a clash at the U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont died in Monday's violence, …