New Jersey launches new library system for state prisons
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 initiative to…
Convicts Training to Become Starbucks Baristas in New Jersey Prisons
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 of five…
Ten minute shift overlap in NJ prisons to cost taxpayers $13,000,000
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 favorable report…
Merrick Garland Dodges Question About The ‘Risk’ Of Putting Men In Women’s Prisons
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 male prisoners…
Multiple UK Countries Are Banning Men Convicted Of Violent Crimes From Being Housed In Women’s Prisons, Unlike Most US States
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 Dominic Raab…
Biological Males With Intact Genitalia, Sex Crime Convictions, No Longer Welcome In This Country’s Women’s Prisons
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 no longer allow males who identify as…
Women Were Sexually Abused By Employees In Two-Thirds Of Prisons, Senate Subcommittee Report Finds
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) employees at…
Thousands Of Pedophiles Released From California Prisons After Less Than A Year: REPORT
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 prisons in…
States Move To End ‘Forced Labor’ In Prisons
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 allow prison…
UC Berkeley Gave Hundreds Of Thousands To Left-Wing Charity That Has Funded Groups Trying To Empty Prisons
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 2021 sent…
Defendant Sentenced in Drug Conspiracy Directed from Two Prisons
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 his crimes.…
Bureau of Prisons employee convicted of illegal firearm possession and witness tampering
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 conduct outside…
Macon State Prisoner Sentenced to 300 Months for Brokering Kilogram Meth Deal, Attempting to Have Drugs Smuggled into Georgia Prisons
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 serve 25…
Dem-Appointed Judge Opens The Door To More Men Being Housed In Women’s Prisons
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) applies to…
Sex Offender Convicted of Escape from the Bureau of Prisons and Failing to Register as a Sex Offender
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 registration. According…
Pennsylvania Dem Senate Candidate Sought To Empty State Prisons While In Power, Records Show
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, has a…
Federal Bureau of Prisons Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault of Woman in Custody in Los Angeles Jail
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 of law…
Governor Murphy’s Inmate Release is Orchestrated Scheme to Permanently Empty New Jersey Prisons, Testa
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, Murphy claimed…
Former Bureau Of Prisons Chaplain Sentenced For Bribery
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 on January 13, 2022, to three years’…
Former Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Bribery
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 pled guilty to the charge. According to…
Moline Man Sentenced for Drug Conspiracy Committed while Incarcerated in Federal Bureau of Prisons
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 prison for Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams…
