BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined 12 other state attorneys general this week in filing an amicus brief in Jones v. …
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Department of Corrections has partnered with national non-profit Freedom Reads to install 37 Freedom Libraries in two state correctional …
ALBANY, N.Y. — A statewide strike by New York correctional officers has entered its second week, leaving prisons severely understaffed and prompting Governor Kathy Hochul …
PHILADELPHIA — A surge of violence in Philadelphia’s prison system continued Saturday as a man was stabbed and rushed to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where he …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley and U.S. Senator Peter Welch on Wednesday unveiled a bill that if passed would grant the right …
By Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke PHILIPSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration …
TRENTON, NJ – In a groundbreaking initiative aimed at providing incarcerated individuals with a pathway to reintegration, the New Jersey Department of Corrections celebrated the …
TRENTON, NJ – The New Jersey legislature appears to be poised to approve a $13,000,000 expense to overlap shifts at New Jersey State prisons. The …
Merrick Garland Dodges Question About The ‘Risk’ Of Putting Men In Women’s Prisons Laurel Duggan on March 1, 2023 Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to …
Multiple UK Countries Are Banning Men Convicted Of Violent Crimes From Being Housed In Women’s Prisons, Unlike Most US States Trevor Schakohl on February 27, …
Biological Males With Intact Genitalia, Sex Crime Convictions, No Longer Welcome In This Country’s Women’s Prisons Laurel Duggan on January 26, 2023 The U.K. will …
Women Were Sexually Abused By Employees In Two-Thirds Of Prisons, Senate Subcommittee Report Finds Bronson Winslow on December 13, 2022 Women were sexually abused by …
Laurel Duggan on November 29, 2022 The Daily Mail reports that more than 7,000 pedophiles convicted of “lewd or lascivious acts with a child under …
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The premier of Australia’s biggest state justified on Monday blocking a U.N. torture prevention panel from visiting prisons, saying the state maintained …
States Move To End ‘Forced Labor’ In Prisons Laurel Duggan on October 5, 2022 Several states are considering rejecting provisions in the 13th Amendment …
UC Berkeley Gave Hundreds Of Thousands To Left-Wing Charity That Has Funded Groups Trying To Empty Prisons Gabe Kaminsky on September 25, 2022 The …
ALBANY, Ga. – A defendant involved in a heroin and methamphetamine trafficking network directed by himself and another co-defendant from two Georgia prisons was sentenced …
Seattle – An employee at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Detention Center (FDC), was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Seattle of two …
MACON, Ga. – An incarcerated individual who attempted to have a controlled substance smuggled into Georgia prisons and brokered a methamphetamine deal with an undercover …
Dem-Appointed Judge Opens The Door To More Men Being Housed In Women’s Prisons Laurel Duggan on August 21, 2022 A Democrat-appointed judge ruled that the …
BOGOTA -At least 51 prisoners died after a fire started during a prison riot in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, the head of the …
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A federal judge convicted an Illinois man yesterday on charges of escaping from the Bureau of Prisons and failing to register …
Pennsylvania Dem Senate Candidate Sought To Empty State Prisons While In Power, Records Show Gabe Kaminsky on June 22, 2022 The Democratic candidate running for …
LOS ANGELES – A corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) pleaded guilty today in federal court to one felony count of …
TRENTON, NJ – If you have been following the news, few people in New Jersey can figure out what Governor Phil Murphy’s early prison release …
– All federal prisons in the United States were locked down on Tuesday after a deadly gang brawl involving several inmates at a penitentiary in …
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ericjon Thomas, age 46, residing in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, was sentenced …
WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Cameron man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for Bribery of a Public Official. On July 8, 2021, Casey Covington …
DAVENPORT, Iowa – A Moline, Illinois man, Luis Alberto Hernandez-Barajas, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced on Thursday, November 18, 2021 to 188 months in …
U.S. prisons are experiencing staffing shortages as officers retire, quit and risks associated with COVID-19, the Associated Press reported on Monday. Corrections officers are exposed …