Recent Corrections News

• How prison ministries adapted during COVID-19

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  During the pandemic, Jehovah’s Witnesses continued their ministry inside prisons without sending in ministers

• Research: How COVID-19 impacted community supervision

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  Data show COVID-related changes increased supervisees’ positive views on interactions, officers

• Wash. CO dies from COVID-19

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  WADOC is proceeding on the presumption that Gabriel Forrest's death was work-related

• How technology can improve inmate mental health while reducing recidivism

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  Free educational videos provide inmates with access to vital self-improvement tools

• LAPD offers community programs over jail time for certain crimes

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  The new anti-recidivism program is an option for some misdemeanors and non-violent felonies

• Ky. judge issues temporary restraining order against state parole board

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  The order had been sought as part of a lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general last week

• 2 former Okla. jail employees charged with felonies

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  The COs are accused of allowing inmates to severely injure each other in two separate incidents

• 2 months after being released by mistake, inmate back in Okla. jail

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  A former jail employee reported the mistake after overhearing the man bragging about his release, 25 years early

• Plans to close Calif. prison spark anger, fear in small town

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  "For sale" signs have popped up. Restaurants and hotels — which rely on inmates' visitors — brace for plummeting business

• Trials reset for inmates charged with killing Iowa prison employees

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  Both men have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a March incident that left a corrections officer and a nurse dead

• Joyce Mitchell, who helped 2 killers escape, is subject of new true-crime show

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  In 2015, former prison worker Joyce Mitchell admitted to facilitating a “Shawshank Redemption”-style escape

• Mistrial halts case on minimum wage for Wash. immigrant detainees

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  A trial over whether immigration detainees must get minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — has ended with a hung jury

• Migrants to replace inmates in a South Texas prison

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  The move comes after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered that authorities arrest migrants who are in the country illegally and committed a state or federal crime

• Escaped Ore. inmate's alleged assault on 2 Japanese citizens becomes international incident

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  A Japanese diplomat's blistering letter demanded a thorough investigation and alluded to potential economic consequences

• Okla. prison closure leads to job losses, feared economic devastation

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  Nearly 140 employees work at the minimum-security prison. About 1,000 inmates will be moved to other facilities

• CO assaulted with ‘knife-like weapon’ at Ore. prison

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  The correctional officer was treated at a hospital for cuts to the head and face, officials said

• Court orders California to move severely disabled defendants into treatment within 28 days

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  Lawyers say too many mentally ill patients spend months in jail, where they suffer while awaiting medical attention

• 2 SC executions halted until firing squad formed

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  Under the state's revised capital punishment law, inmates must have the choice between the electric chair and a firing squad

• Authorities find escaped federal inmate in Tennessee

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  The inmate was found at a hotel about 215 miles from where he escaped

• Focusing on low-performing staff promotes success in your team

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  If you let an underperformer go unchallenged, you are guaranteed lower morale among your higher performers over time

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