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Only a fraction of 20,000 men and women annually released from DOC participate in services due to limited financial support, staffing, space and business cooperation

Suit filed over pregnant CO forced to take an unpaid leave of absence after she was switched from light duty to shifts guarding cellblocks due to understaffing

Inmate advocates point out that many prisoners exposed to high temperatures are unable to cool themselves in a way people living outside prison walls regularly do

CO Patrick J. Fogarty was killed in the line of duty Aug. 17, 1958

The CO was canned two years after suffering an assortment of injuries when targeted by a pair of teen inmates

The North Carolina inmate accused of murdering Sgt. Meggan Callahan in 2017 warned prison officials that he had homicidal thoughts

The Denver County Sheriff’s Department says it has since changed its policy to ensure pregnant inmates in any stage of labor are immediately taken to hospital

The family of an inmate who died of an apparent seizure while imprisoned was awarded $2 million

Sheriff Eddie Virden said he and his team will continue determined efforts “to bring closure to these cases and provide answers to the families seeking justice”

The remaining allegations in the lawsuit are made against specific corrections and police officers and include charges such as excessive force, battery, negligence, and failure to intervene