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Ark. DOC ready to begin plans for a new prison

With the unanimous vote the board plans on spending $5 to $6 million in the next year to make plans for the building of a 1,000 bed prison

January 24, 2014 03:43 AM

Ore. inmates take advantage of staff complacency to try escapes

One inmate broke windows, drilled out a door lock, broke into metal tool cages, bashed a hole in the laundry wall, and more overnight without being noticed

January 24, 2014 01:57 AM

Inmate sends suspicious powder to Nev. Supreme Court

Powder was initially identified as anthrax but later deemed not hazardous

January 22, 2014 04:11 AM

Mexican national’s lawyers want execution halted

Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, was set for lethal injection Wednesday for the January 1994 slaying of Guy Gaddis, 24

January 22, 2014 04:01 AM

Mo. legislators want answers on death penalty

Claims say DOC used unlicensed pharmacy to make lethal injection drugs and executed prisoner before appeals ran out

January 21, 2014 03:47 AM

Connections matter in Ga. private probation industry

State representative calls 2000 law allowing private probation companies ‘big business'; many are controlled by former law enforcement officials

January 21, 2014 01:56 AM

Calif. off-duty CO hailed as hero for stopping carjacking

Police Chief: “Had the correctional officer not engaged the suspect there could have been additional victims tonight”

January 18, 2014 04:38 AM

Electric chair bill advances in Richmond

Lethal injection drugs are getting harder to come by

January 18, 2014 04:35 AM

Unclear future for executions after Ohio’s longest

Ohio’s latest experience with putting an inmate to death raises new question about the ability of states to carry out executions in constitutional fashion

January 18, 2014 04:15 AM

Calif. deputy dies in crash during inmate transport

Correctional Deputy Jeremy Meyst died of injuries received when he was ejected from an inmate transportation van

December 26, 2013 03:40 AM