Tag: Correctional systems
Deaths of 2 inmates at NW Indiana prison being investigated
WESTVILLE, Ind. — Authorities are investigating the recent deaths of two inmates at a northwest Indiana prison, state correction officials said.
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Prison break: 29 inmates escape federal lockups in 18 months
WASHINGTON — Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S. — and nearly half still have not...
Sheriff: Man wanted in baby’s death briefly escaped jail
LARGO, Fla. — A man accused of killing his infant son in Ohio escaped from a Florida jail but was captured within minutes, authorities...
Longest serving death row inmate in US resentenced to life
HOUSTON — The longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after prosecutors in Texas concluded...
7 people charged in fatal beating of man at jail
INDIANAPOLIS — At least seven people have been charged with murder in the fatal beating of an inmate at the Marion County jail.
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Oklahoma prison inmates to begin receiving computer tablets
OKLAHOMA CITY — Inmates at an Oklahoma prison began receiving special computer tablets this week, as part of a Department of Corrections plan to...
Teen in shootout with Florida deputies ordered held
DELAND, Fla. — A 14-year-old girl wounded in a shootout with Florida deputies last week after she and a 12-year-old boy escaped a juvenile...
Former NBA star works to end solitary confinement in prisons
Caron Butler can easily point to the lowest moment in his life — the days he spent as a teenager locked in a solitary...
Jails emptied in the pandemic. Should they stay that way?
It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought...
2nd South Carolina inmate seeking to block electrocution
COLUMBIA, S.C. — An inmate scheduled to die later this month under South Carolina's recently reworked capital punishment law is asking to take part...