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Officer Safety

Calif. COs, inmates recovering after rare mass attack

All eight correctional officers were treated and released for beating injuries, but one will need surgery for a torn shoulder

May 26, 2017 09:43 AM

More details emerge in Calif. prison melee

COs were attempting to break up an inmate fistfight when they were swarmed by other felons in an exercise yard

May 25, 2017 10:10 AM

Correctional Management

Judge sentences ex-LA sheriff to 3-year term for corruption

A judge said Lee Baca’s fall was his own doing and that his role atop a corrupt department where deputies brutalized inmates had ruined lives and done lasting damage

May 12, 2017 06:14 PM

Escapes

Prosecutor: Escape suspect won’t fight extradition to Iowa

Wesley Correa-Carmenaty would face life in prison if convicted due to the lack of death penalty in Iowa

May 03, 2017 03:04 PM

Executing multiple inmates the same day was common, now rare

The last time that a state put more than one inmate to death on the same day was more than 16 years ago

April 15, 2017 02:53 PM

Plan to double-bunk at new Kan. prison worries lawmakers

Kansas legislators are debating how much the decision to house more inmates two-to-a-cell has fueled unrest at state prisons in recent months

September 30, 2017 01:13 PM

Prisoner Transport

Killer dubbed ‘a known Hannibal Lecter’ pleads guilty, gets 25 years

Records show that after Casey Pigge killed cellmate Luther Wade last year, he told investigators he’d kill again if placed with another inmate

September 27, 2017 10:07 AM

Facility Design and Operation

A look inside Texas prisons damaged by Harvey, where workers and inmates are cleaning up

About 7,000 people from five prisons, three treatment centers and two halfway houses had to be evacuated, and hundreds of prison employees’ homes were damaged or destroyed

September 15, 2017 10:00 AM

Follower: Manson threatened grisly death if she left cult

Leslie Van Houten’s lawyer wants to show the parole board that his client was under the sway of the twisted leader and more likely to make bad choices at the age of 19

September 01, 2017 10:45 AM

Mich. woman gets life for murder witnessed by parrot

Martin Duram’s ex-wife, Christina Keller, has said that after the slaying, the pet parrot, Bud, repeated “don’t (expletive) shoot” in Martin Duram’s voice

August 28, 2017 04:06 PM