Juveniles trying to escape La. youth jail beat CO with pipe, ripped out cameras

Ala. inmate executed for the shooting death of man in 1993 robbery

2 deputies taken to hospital with significant injuries after being attacked by inmates

More Conn. COs being assaulted by inmates due to 2022 law, union says

Governor eases lockdowns at Wis. prisons amid lawsuit, seeks to improve safety

Texas correctional officer dies while restraining inmate

Video released in attack of CO at Ohio juvenile facility

Armed inmates start riot at S.C. county jail

FCC Hazelton employees seek action over staffing shortages, retention bonuses

Ala. sets January execution date using nitrogen gas

NZ inmates refurbish donated bikes

May 23, 2017 04:18 PM

Prisoners at Christchurch Men’s Prison Youth Unit are asking for more bikes so they can repair them and pass them onto released prisoners to use to get to work.

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Massive multi-state drug ring operated from Calif. prison leads to 16 indictments

From a prison cell in California, federal prosecutors say a 56-year-old inmate directed an Alaska drug trafficking ring that in recent years smuggled huge quantities of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine

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Officer Safety

3 inmates charged after jail stabbing that injured deputy

An inmate attacked a deputy who took the weapon he used to stab another inmate; two additional inmates then piled onto the deputy

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Corrections Training

Autism advocate visits NJDOC as part of mission to enhance law enforcement communication

Advocate Alex Mann, aiming to visit 500 police departments to discuss autism communication, made his first correctional facility visit at stop number 424

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Capital Punishment

Ala. court says state can execute inmate with nitrogen gas

Three states — Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi — have authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method but no state has attempted to use it

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