Recent Corrections News

• Man who spent 22 years in solitary confinement headed back to prison

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  His original 7-year prison term in 1994 was extended with additional sentences totaling 90 years for assaulting correctional officers, including throwing bodily fluids

• Charles Manson follower should be released from prison, Calif. court rules

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  Leslie Van Houten was 19 when she helped Manson and other followers kill Leno LaBianca, a grocery executive in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary, in 1969

• 7 inmates escape Mo. jail after attacking COs; 1 still at large

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  The 7 inmates punched two correctional officers and knocked them unconscious after putting them in chokeholds

• New details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records

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  Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, jail officials observed in newly obtained records. He complained he was struggling to adapt to life behind bars

• NYC Department of Corrections will no longer disclose inmate deaths in city jails

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  Under the now-rescinded practice, the DOC would release the name of any city inmate who died, along with basic details like date, time and place of death

• Report details major health and safety concerns inside federal prisons

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  All 123 federal prisons in the United States need an estimated $2 billion worth of maintenance, the report says

• Mo. execution of man convicted in killings of 2 COs halted by federal judge

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  The delay comes after Michael Tisius' lawyers claimed a juror in his 2010 resentencing could not read or write

• 5 Neb. prison workers punched, stabbed by 3 inmates with 'manufactured weapons'

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  An inmate faked an illness, and inmates attacked a staff member who came into his cell. Other workers were also attacked as they tried to help, the union said

• Watch: Wash. deputies, K-9 track down prison escapee and wanted man

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  The prison escapee lost a shoe as he ran into the woods, which K-9 Eddie used to track him down

• Violent spree in S.C. jail continues after seventh inmate stabbed within a month

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  Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center has been under scrutiny because of severe understaffing, violence inside the jail and reports of poor conditions for detainees

• What to know about the Texas prison where Elizabeth Holmes is serving her 11-year sentence

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  According to a FPC Bryan inmate handbook, those in the facility who are eligible to work can earn between 12 cents and $1.15 per hour in their job assignments

• Ala. sets July execution date as state resumes lethal injections after a series of problems

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  The corrections commissioner said the prison system has also added medical professionals, ordered new equipment and conducted additional rehearsals

• Make the most of your secured facility intake process with these scheduling tips

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  Ensuring safe and secure entry for newly incarcerated people at a correctional facility requires careful consideration of all aspects involved

• Conflict management in corrections

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  Keeping a conflict from turning violent is your responsibility. And that means building your conflict management skills

• Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for blood-testing hoax

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  Holmes is serving her sentence at FPC Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp in Texas that encompasses about 37 acres of land and houses about 650 women

• Beloved CO killed in shooting inducted into Ga. county's Fallen Heroes Memorial

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  In his 12 years as a CO, Officer Scott Riner mentored many of the inmates he oversaw and tried to steer them toward productive lives after prison

• Convicted murderer's body found in Ohio River, days after recapture of fellow Ohio escapee

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  Ohio corrections officials said investigators determined the inmates left the correctional facility “after concealing themselves in a dumpster"

• Calif. grand jury report eyes anti-recidivism programs to reduce jail needs

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  The report also recommends Santa Cruz County to put more money toward hiring and retaining the jail's employee count

• School shooter asks for mercy from life sentence; teacher, principal want him to stay in prison

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  The school shooter asked for a chance at life outside a prison cell, apologizing to the family of the 6-year-old he killed

• Ind. jail deputies find scissors inside arrested man during body scan

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  During a second scan, the assistant jail commander noticed the object in the arrestee had moved

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