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Family claims NJ DOC failures led to son's suicide at Northern State Prison
Justice Lassiter committed suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark ... the DOC's internal affairs unit, known as the Special ...
Penn Live3d
Shapiro budget proposes closing 2 state prisons, but corrections officers push back
Josh Shapiro’s proposed state budget presented on Tuesday includes plans to close two state prisons. The $51.5 billion proposal recommends shuttering the prisons based on a downward trend in the ...
The Hindu4d
D-G of Telangana Prisons inaugurates weaving unit at Nizamabad Central jail
visited the Central Prison in Nizamabad on Monday (February 3) to announce the opening of a new weaving unit. The unit was established by transferring weaving machines from the Central Prison in ...
A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...
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Shapiro proposes closing two Pennsylvania state prisons
The budget proposal says closing two state prisons would result in an estimated annual cost savings of over $100 million and closing two state-run centers would save an additional $10 million ...
Reuters3d
Five Islamic State prisoners killed trying to escape from Tajik jail, source says
At least five prisoners killed after attacking guards Islamic State prisoners tried to escape Tajik jail Three prison guards injured DUSHANBE, Feb 4 (Reuters) - At least five prisoners who ...
syracuse.com4d
A decade and $600 million later, New York prisons still lack cameras
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When Jaquan Myers was sent to the Franklin ...
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Inmate injured in Central NY state prison dies, family says
Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...
UPI4d
El Salvador offers to jail violent U.S. criminals in 'unprecedented' deal
Feb. 4 (UPI) --El Salvador has agreed to take deportees from the United States and violent criminals from U.S. prisons in an "extraordinary migratory agreement." Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...
The Mirror5d
'I spent seven years in prison – there are six routines I still do now that I'm free'
A man who served time in prison after struggling with substance abuse has shared six habits he still uses from when he was behind bars. Derrick Moore from Alaska in the US, is a motivational ...
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US envoy says at least six Americans still wrongfully held in Venezuelan prisons
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - There are at least six Americans wrongfully held in prison in Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Richard Grenell said on Monday, three days after ...