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Prisons
December 04, 2019
25 jail officers indicted, accused of using excessive force
More than two dozen correctional officers in Baltimore were charged Tuesday with using excessive force on prisoners at ...
December 03, 2019
Report: Racial divide shrinks in US criminal justice system
Racial disparities have narrowed across the U.S. criminal justice system over 16 years, though black people are still ...
December 03, 2019
Vigil for London stabbing victims as politicians trade blame
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn paused Monday to honor the two ...
December 03, 2019
US seeks high court permission to resume federal executions
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday for permission to begin executing federal inmates as soon as next ...
November 28, 2019
Peru’s Fujimori will leave prison to new political landscape
When opposition leader Keiko Fujimori leaves prison, her supporters will applaud her freedom and her detractors will lament ...
November 27, 2019
Assad: IS members in Syrian Kurds jails to stand local trial
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Wednesday that members of the Islamic State group held in the country ...
November 22, 2019
AP Exclusive: DOJ would take halted executions to high court
Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press on Thursday that he would take the Trump administration’s bid to ...
November 22, 2019
The Latest: US may take federal execution case to high court
The Latest on federal executions (all times local): 6 p.m. Attorney General William Barr tells The Associated Press he will ...
November 20, 2019
Families of inmates who died, hurt at jail seek answers
Families of inmates who died or were seriously injured at a small Ohio county jail in the last year are seeking answers about ...
November 20, 2019
As Epstein died, guards allegedly shopped online and slept
Two jail guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself were sleeping and browsing the ...
November 19, 2019
US prison system long plagued by staffing crisis, violence
For years, the federal Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by systematic failures, from massive staffing shortages to chronic ...
November 18, 2019
Pennsylvania agrees to upgrade inmates’ death row conditions
Pennsylvania’s prison agency agreed to improve death row conditions under a settlement announced Monday of a federal lawsuit ...
November 16, 2019
Rapper Kanye West performs for Texas jail inmates
Kanye West has followed the Johnny Cash route and performed for inmates at a Houston jail. In secret from the public, the ...
November 13, 2019
Rapper Kodak Black gets prison sentence in weapons case
Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to weapons ...
November 12, 2019
US troops at Syria base say they'll keep pressure on IS
At a base in eastern Syria, a senior U.S. coalition commander said Monday that American troops who remain in Syria are ...
November 08, 2019
China hands Japanese politician life in prison in drug case
A court in southern China sentenced an elderly former Japanese politician to life in prison Friday for smuggling drugs in ...
November 07, 2019
2 escaped murder suspects arrested at US-Mexico border
Authorities are trying to determine if anyone helped two inmates who escaped from a California jail, traveled hundreds of ...
November 05, 2019
More than 450 Oklahoma inmates walking out of prison doors
More than 450 inmates walked out the doors of prisons across Oklahoma on Monday as part of what state officials say is the ...
November 05, 2019
Suspects in slayings slip into walls to flee California jail
Two inmates charged with murder broke out of a California jail over the weekend after climbing through a hole they made in ...
November 01, 2019
Inmate says he was told to wash, reuse disposable catheters
Brad Vanzant uses a wheelchair, has one kidney, and since 2015 has relied on catheters to drain his bladder. He's also an ...
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