Ohio corrections officer killed in Christmas Day prison ... - ABC News
2 days ago · Prison director said officer Andrew Lansing "made the ultimate sacrifice." An inmate allegedly assaulted and killed a veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison, an attack ...
Ohio prison guard dead after Christmas morning assault by ... - CBS News
2 days ago · Chillicothe, Ohio — A corrections officer died after an assault by an inmate in an Ohio prison on Christmas morning, authorities said Wednesday. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...
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3 days ago · Human Rights activist and the editor and publisher of Prison Legal News Paul Wright discusses the prevalence of solitary confinement and other forms of torture in the US, what it means to ban the practice in New York City, how solitary confinement policies are being rolled back or hidden in plain sight in US prisons, the novel lengths Alabama ...
Federal death row sentences for 37 inmates are commuted - CNN
4 days ago · The 37 inmates impacted by the decision, whose crimes include murders tied to drug trafficking and the killings of prison guards or other inmates, will instead serve life sentences.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row ... - CBS News
5 days ago · President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences . Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Hochul Orders Firing of 14 Prison Workers After ... - The New …
4 days ago · Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered that 13 corrections officers and a prison nurse be fired after the fatal beating of an inmate in an attack that their union called “incomprehensible.”
The US government is closing a women's prison and other …
Dec 6, 2024 · The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six other facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement, the Associated Press has learned.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing the notorious "rape club" women's prison in Dublin and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and ...
A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death …
Nov 15, 2023 · Signed by 14 people incarcerated in one of the highest-security federal prisons in the country, the letter was an urgent warning for prison officials: Several corrections officers were trying...
Biden signs bill strengthening oversight of ... - Associated Press News
Jul 25, 2024 · President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill strengthening oversight of the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption and abuse in the prison system.