ABC15 Arizona11d
LAWSUIT: Unsupervised prison inmate trapped and sexually assaulted civilian worker
TUCSON, AZ — A civilian kitchen worker is suing the State of Arizona after she was violently sexually assaulted inside the Tucson prison by a high-risk inmate who was left unsupervised.
Washington Examiner7d
Judge blocks federal prison system from relocating transgender inmates
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its new prison policy that would require transgender inmates to be housed based on their biological sex ...
The Independent29d
The prison inmates risking their lives fighting LA wildfires for just $1 an hour
Fire crews are getting a unique hand in trying to slow the blazes tearing through Los Angeles - the California prison system Nearly 400 inmates are among the 14,000 emergency responders working on ...
The New York Times26d
Sick Prisoners in New York Were Granted Parole but Remain Behind Bars
In New York, some inmates are suing for release. By Sarah Kliff When the letter arrived at Westil Gonzalez’s prison cell saying that he had been granted parole, he couldn’t read it.
The Punch Newspapers5d
Pre-trial inmates: Overhaul the judicial system
Shettima sounded disturbed, saying there were 66,000 inmates in the country’s correctional centres. Out of that number, 47,559 were awaiting trial. “We can easily decongest the prison and make ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal25d
2 Nevada prison inmates die, including double murderer on death row
Two inmates at the state’s maximum-security prison including a convicted murderer died one day apart this week, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced. So far in January, three High ...
The Punch Newspapers28d
Sanwo-Olu pardons 52 prison inmates
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the release of 52 inmates and commuted the sentences of six death row prisoners to life imprisonment as part of ongoing justice reforms in ...
The New York Times6d
Beating Death of Shackled N.Y. Inmate Is Ruled a Homicide, Governor Says
By Ed Shanahan An autopsy has found that the death of a New York State prison inmate who was handcuffed and shackled while corrections officers attacked him was a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul said ...
CNN6d
More than 150 female inmates raped and burned to death during Goma jailbreak in DRC, UN says
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a ...
Sacramento Bee26d
Inmate killed at New Folsom prison, CDCR says. 1 suspect convicted of murder at same facility
at the male-only state prison California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom. Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died Wednesday after two ...
Argus Leader6d
Former South Dakota prison employee sentenced for sexual contact with inmate
A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...