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68-year-old Claudia Mae Washburn helped her son John McCluskey by giving him money after he’d escaped from an Arizona prison

Cusick, 21, blond and baby-faced, begged the judge for a last Thanksgiving at home with his mother, but was denied his request

Accused of using excessive force, including lethal quantities of tear gas in small prison cells

Lawyers representing Amanda Knox hope they can use new evidence to clear her in the killing of her British roommate

Should women be treated differently from men in the American criminal justice system?

Faces of Hope Riverworks helps former inmates with job market

Aimed specifically at the department’s community service and electronic monitoring divisions to see if they have more workers than needed

The high cost of locking up people may be one of the factors leading to the reduction of jail spending by cities and counties

Man says he hit his 94-year-old roommate because he was angered by the other man’s singing

Victor Valdez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was serving a four-year sentence for assault when he died at the prison last November under controversial circumstances