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Staffing shortages, old facilities, and ‘nothing to lose’: These are the factors that contribute to prison breaks across the country
Ten inmates at a New Orleans jail surreptitiously cut through cell walls using electric hair trimmers before fleeing into the ...
DOC claims South Dakota prison drug smuggling ring busted, but perpetrators remain unnamed
The SD Dept. of Corrections claims to have stopped a drug smuggling ring inside of its prisons, but certain details about its ...
Judge Declines to Block Transfer of Death Row Inmates Granted Clemency by Biden to ‘Supermax’ Facility
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...
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10 injured in prison violence days after protests over security and inmate treatment
The violence comes less than a week after a protest over prison security and the treatment of inmates, and less than a month ...
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Vashti Brown Appointed as New Regional Operations Coordinator at Wheeler Correctional Facility
Vashti Brown named new Regional Operations Coordinator for Wheeler Correctional Facility by the Georgia Department of ...
Oklahoma is poised to purchase the state's last private prison. Families hope it will reduce violence
The House and Senate approved a pair of bills to purchase the state's last private prison outright for $312 million.