Tag: Prisons
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...
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...
Inmate on the lam since November arrested in Rapid City
RAPID CITY, N.D. — Authorities in South Dakota say an inmate who escaped from a minimum-security prison in Rapid City in November is back...
South Carolina inmate trying to halt June 18 execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The inmate scheduled to be the first put to death under South Carolina's recently revamped capital punishment law has filed a...
Police: Man faces new charges after attack on jail officer
SEYMOUR, Ind. — A southern Indiana man is facing four new charges including escape and strangulation after his attack left a corrections officer unconscious,...
As South Carolina execution looms, firing squad debated
COLUMBIA, S.C. — It's been more than a decade since Randy Gardner's brother was the last U.S. inmate executed by firing squad, years the...