Prisoner Transport News & Articles

• Fort Hood suspect moving from hospital to Texas jail

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  Hasan will be housed in a cell at the Bell County Jail medical unit

• 160 Pa. prisoners arrive at Mich. correctional facility

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  By John S. HausmanMuskegon ChronicleMUSKEGON, Mich. — The first batches of Pennsylvania prisoners have arrived at Muskegon Correctional Facility.Without notice to the public, the Pennsylvania and M...

• Ill. inmate gives up accomplice in exchange for transfer

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  Johnny Plass didn't like Stateville Correctional Center

• Ark. prisoner transport escapee, Justin Welch, caught

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  By Dan O'Donnell AM620 WTMJ NewsradioSALLISAW, Okla. — The Sallisaw, Oklahoma Police Department confirmed Thursday that officers re-captured fugitive murder suspect Justin Patrick Welch a day after...

• Guard was asleep during violent Ark. prisoner van escape

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  Wis. murder suspect stabbed officer on bathroom break then stole van

• Ky. Gov. orders women moved from private prison

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  400 female inmates will be transfered after allegations of sexual misconduct by male officers

• Mexico transfers 300 inmates so Gibson can make film

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  Mel Gibson's new film will be set in Veracruz prison

• Texas officer fired after inmate wheelchair escape

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  Associated PressAUSTIN, Texas — A guard at a Texas prison has been fired for "reckless endangerment" after a convicted sex offender escaped with a loaded pistol that had been smuggled to the inmate...

• Texas wheelchair escapee recaptured

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  CNN.com A Texas inmate who escaped last week -- on foot even though he was thought to need a wheelchair -- has been recaptured, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a posting on its Web...

• Convicted Texas sex offender, Comeaux, still loose

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  Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Texas — A convicted sex offender who escaped from Texas prison guards during a transfer is drawing the attention of legislative leaders.Texas prison system spokeswoman M...

• Texas inmate pulls gun on officers, escapes van

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  By Juan A. Lozano Associated PressHOUSTON — A convicted sex offender sentenced to life in prison pulled a gun on two guards during a prison transfer Monday and held them hostage temporarily before ...

• Texas inmate escapes while being transferred

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  Associated PressBAYTOWN, Texas — Authorities say a Texas inmate has escaped during a prison transfer after temporarily taking two prison guards hostage.Officials believe Arcade Joseph Comeaux (KOH'...

• No country for Gitmo detainees

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  By Ben FoxThe Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison - part...

• Plan to try 9/11 suspects in NYC draws critcism

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  Associated PressWASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder had just announced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged accomplices would stand trial in New York when the ...

• 2 Ill. investigators foiled by escapee may face charges

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  By David HeinzmannChicago Tribune CHICAGO — Cook County State's Atty. Anita Alvarez has notified two of her investigators that they may face administrative charges for discrediting her office after...

• Man who overpowered 2 guards in Ill. still at large

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  By Georgia Garvey and Richard WronskiChicago Tribune ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. — A violent "career offender" from Elk Grove Village remained at large late Thursday, fleeing a future that looked bleak e...

• 1 dead, others injured in Miss. prisoner van crash

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  Associated PressHATTIESBURG, Miss. — Prisoners were being treated under guard at a hospital after a private prisoner van crashed in southern Mississippi, killing the driver and injuring several oth...

• Calif. backs away from Mich. prison proposal

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  By Chris Christoff and Kathleen GrayUSA TODAY LANSING, Mich. — California won't be sending its prisoners to fill the maximum-security prison in Standish, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday.Granhol...

• Prisoner allegedly kills Puerto Rico cop, wounds 1

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  By Luara N. Perez Sanchez Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A 23-year-old prisoner being taken to jail to face car theft charges allegedly shot one police officer to death and gravely wounded...

• Prisoner escapes van in leg irons; caught in suburb

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  By Joel HoodChicago Tribune CHICAGO — A prisoner who escaped from a transport van traveling to Mississippi was captured Sunday night in Richton Park, still wearing the leg irons he had on when he d...

• Different U.S. states weighed to host Gitmo trials

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  By Devlin Barrett Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Staring at a January deadline, the Obama administration is debating between two dramatically different schemes for putting Guantanamo Bay deta...

• Some Gitmo detainees may come to US jails

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  By Pamela Hess Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer said Friday that the Obama administration has not abandoned the possibility of transferring some prisoners from the Guantanamo ...

• Mich. prison still hopes for Calif. prisoners, but budget woes loom

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  By Kathryn Lynch-MorinBay City TimesSTANDISH, Mich. — Negotiations between California and Michigan corrections officials are continuing, but a budget deal crafted by California Gov. Arnold Schwarze...

• Video: Transferring inmate with RIPP backboard system

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  In this video, Milwaukee County House of Corrections Officers demonstrate how to use the RIPP Restraints back board system to transport a dangerous and violently-resisting prisoner from Point A to ...

• Bus with NY prison visitors tips over, killing 1

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  Associated PressLAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — A bus transporting visitors to upstate prisons rolled onto its side and plowed into a rock ledge on a highway in the Adirondack mountains early Sunday, killing a...

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