Tag: Correctional systems
States grapple with closing youth detention centers
CONCORD, N.H. — As states from California to Maine consider drastic changes to youth detention centers, New Hampshire is grappling with its own facility...
AP sources: Officials mulling ousting US prisons director
WASHINGTON — Senior Biden administration officials have discussed whether to remove the holdover director of the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons who has been...
5 charged in Oklahoma inmate’s death during hostage incident
OKLAHOMA CITY — Five inmates have been charged with murder in the death of another inmate during a hostage-taking incident at an Oklahoma jail.
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Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray
CHICAGO — Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment,...
2 ex-Oklahoma County jail employees charged with felonies
OKLAHOMA CITY — Prosecutors charged two former employees of the Oklahoma County Jail in separate cases in which they are accused of allowing inmates...
Migrants will replace inmates in a South Texas prison
DALLAS — Texas is transferring inmates from a state prison to make room for migrants detained by state authorities, a prison system spokesman said...
Authorities find escaped federal inmate in Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal agents on Wednesday captured a prison inmate who escaped from a minimum security facility in Tennessee, the U.S. Marshals Service...
Coroner: Jail death of Black man changed to a homicide
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A coroner has changed the death certificate of a mentally ill Black man who died in a South Carolina jail earlier...
South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal
Days before what could be South Carolina's first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently...
Convict sentenced to life without parole in official’s death
RIPLEY, Tenn. — A convicted felon was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in a deal with prosecutors in the rape and...