Prisons

BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined 12 other state attorneys general this week in filing an amicus brief in Jones v. Bondi, urging a federal appeals …

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 facilities, part of a broader …

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 to deploy the National Guard …

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 is listed in stable condition. …

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 to vote nationwide to people …

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 detention, saying: “No business should …

TRENTON, NJ – In a groundbreaking initiative aimed at providing incarcerated individuals with a pathway to reintegration, the New Jersey Department of Corrections celebrated the graduation of its first class …

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 Assembly Budget Committee presented a …

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 say whether he believed biologically …

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, 2023 U.K. Deputy Defense Minister …

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 Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …

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 14” were released from California …

  States Move To End ‘Forced Labor’ In Prisons Laurel Duggan on October 5, 2022 Several states are considering rejecting provisions in the 13th Amendment within their state constitutions that …

  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 University of California, Berkeley in …

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 to federal prison today for …

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 federal felonies related to his …

MACON, Ga. – An incarcerated individual who attempted to have a controlled substance smuggled into Georgia prisons and brokered a methamphetamine deal with an undercover GBI agent was sentenced to …

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 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) …

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A federal judge convicted an Illinois man yesterday on charges of escaping from the Bureau of Prisons and failing to register and update a sex offender …

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 Senate in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, …

          LOS ANGELES – A corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) pleaded guilty today in federal court to one felony count of deprivation of rights under color …

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 endgame is. During the pandemic, …