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States grapple with closing youth detention centers

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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

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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

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Five inmates have been charged with murder in the death of another inmate during a hostage-taking incident at an Oklahoma jail. ...

Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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RIPLEY, Tenn. — A convicted felon was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in a deal with prosecutors in the rape and...