Former rapper-turned-advocate uses his prison experience to help teens avoid life of crime
Dep shares story of his time in prison for murder to aid youth. Trevell Coleman, known professionally in the rap music world as G. Dep, is best known for his hit songs 'Special Delivery' and ‘Let's ...
Rise in suicides inside state prisons is ‘terrible red flag’. What is NC doing?
Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...
Ex-inmates feel 'forgotten' over abuse claims
A police investigation was launched in 2014 but ex-inmates said they were disappointed nobody had been brought to justice.
Old Prisons Are Being Converted Into Stylish Apartments (Really)
The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 ...
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For UNT criminal justice students — and their classmates at a correctional facility — education is an equalizer
It’s not the most typical classroom, but University of North Texas criminal justice students said that sharing a class with ...
Crammed into Hell: Thousands of MS-13 and 18 Street gang members squeeze onto bunks in El Salvador's mega CECOT prison that boasts inmates 'have lost all rights' a…
CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to ...
He’s been an arsonist and artist, now he’s on a mission to change lives
Damien Linnane’s 10-month stay in prison led him on a journey to overhaul an outdated healthcare system. Only one thing ...
Three migrants die in Maltese SAR shipwreck, 15 rescued, ANSA reports
Fifteen migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean by a non-governmental organisation on Sunday after a shipwreck, and three were found dead, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The rescue took ...
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‘The closest to hell you can get’: What life is like inside a prison
My name is Gary Bogatz. In 2022, I was sentenced to 68 months in prison and arrived in St. Cloud that July. I realize that ...
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From Inmates to Advocates: Three Stories of Resilience and the Call for Prison Reform
Prison reform is a pressing issue that continues to spark debate across the nation. To shed light on this critical topic, we spoke to three individuals with unique backgrounds and firsthand ...
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2 inmates sentenced to death don’t want President Biden’s commutation to life in prison
Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole as they seek to appeal their cases and ...
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2 inmates from Southern California suspects in deadly prison yard attack
(KTLA) – Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), previously called New Folsom Prison, California Department of ...