APNewsBreak: NYC to offer non-bail option for some suspects
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of New Yorkers accused of low-level or non-violent crimes won't face the prospect of raising cash for bail under a plan that seeks to keep such suspects out of the troubled...
View ArticlePope sees notorious Bolivia prison where money buys survival
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his pilgrimage to Bolivia with a visit Friday to its notoriously violent and overcrowded Palmasola prison, where inmates have the run of the place,...
View ArticlePope offers hope to prisoners in Bolivia's notorious prison
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis on Friday urged inmates at Bolivia’s notoriously violent Palmasola prison to not despair as he wrapped up his visit to Bolivia with a message of hope and solidarity...
View ArticleTexas corrections officer killed in inmate attack
NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A corrections officer who was escorting an inmate to his cell was beaten to death Wednesday at a far northeast Texas prison, Department of Criminal Justice officials said.read...
View ArticleTexas corrections officer killed in inmate attack
NEW BOSTON (AP) — A corrections officer escorting an inmate to his cell was beaten to death Wednesday at a far Northeast Texas prison, Department of Criminal Justice officials said.The officer was...
View ArticleObama visits prison to call for a fairer justice system
EL RENO, Okla. — President Barack Obama got a first-hand look at the nation’s criminal justice system Thursday, touring a federal prison and meeting with incarcerated men. After peering into a sterile...
View ArticleAcross the nation
DENVERWhether James Holmes gets life without parole or a death sentence for the Colorado theater shooting, he will spend years behind bars, joining about 6,000 inmates in Colorado and hundreds of...
View ArticleNew York prison worker pleads guilty in escape of two killers
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A prison worker who was "in over her head" with two inmates convicted of murder tearfully pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of aiding them by smuggling hacksaw blades and other...
View ArticleJail inmate in Arizona pulls eye out of its socket
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A jail inmate in Arizona is hospitalized after authorities say he pulled one of his eyeballs out of its socket.Sheriff’s officials in Pinal County, just southeast of Phoenix, say...
View ArticleSome prisoners say they were beaten after pair escaped
ALBANY, N.Y. — Inmates who knew the two convicted killers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern New York reported beatings by guards trying to determine where the pair went, according...
View ArticleSouth Texas prison shuts down amid private prison woes
EAGLE PASS (AP) — More than a dozen once-profitable private prisons in Texas have failed, including one this month in South Texas, and records from a bond research firm examined by the San Antonio...
View ArticleFourth inmate dies after prisoner clash at Oklahoma prison
Three inmates were stabbed to death during an attack or fight at an Oklahoma prison and a fourth died of his injuries overnight, an official said Sunday.The violence erupted at around 4 p.m. Saturday...
View ArticleLawmaker scrutiny follows Bland, deputy deaths
In the coming days, the deaths of Sandra Bland and Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth will continue to jolt statewide conversations about how the Texas criminal justice system deals with mental health...
View ArticleWill: Ohio prison units bring hope for inmates
CLEVELAND — About a mile from where the Cleveland Indians test their fans’ patience, there is a facility that expresses Ohio’s attempt to temper justice with patience. The facility resembles a school,...
View ArticleInmates slip away en route to halfway houses
WASHINGTON — More than 240 inmates have slipped away from federal custody in the past three years while traveling to halfway houses, including several who committed bank robberies and a carjacking...
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