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After multiple lawsuits from a prisoner who claimed she felt like a ‘sex slave’ in male prisons, the Illinois Department of Corrections is mandating staff training in “transgender issues.” Is it a special privilege or necessity? There are only 28 transgender prisoners in the Illinois correctional system, but one of them – a trans-woman named […]
Nebraska used a lethal injection of four drugs in a never-before-tried combination, including the powerful opioid fentanyl, to carry out its first execution in more than two decades.
Published time: 22 Nov, 2017 21:57 An Oregon woman has been handed a two year prison sentence on a drug conspiracy charge, after her boyfriend died from a meth-laden kiss following a prison visit. Melissa Ann Blair was visiting Anthony Powell at the Oregon State Penitentiary in June 2016 when they shared a kiss at […]
Opinion: Phone calls from prison cost far too much. The FCC should intervene to help this broken market. https://media.wired.com/photos/59e77ef77078ac27fa6178ef/master/pass/InMatePhones-HP-526447853.jpg Feed: All Latest
A man scheduled for an imminent execution in Missouri is innocent, his lawyers say, and they claim to have DNA evidence to back that up. Now it is up to the US Supreme Court to decide whether or not to stall the lethal injection, or allow it to proceed. Marcellus Williams, 48, was set to […]
Cyphy (Reuters) – An inmate used wirecutters and a cell phone likely delivered by a drone to escape from a South Carolina maximum security prison this week before being captured in Texas on Friday with guns and more than $ 47,000 in cash, authorities said. Jimmy Causey, 46, escaped from the Lieber Correctional Institution in […]
The Canadian government has formally apologized to one of its citizens held for a decade at Guantanamo Bay after a court ruled Ottawa had been complicit in breaching his human rights. The youngest-ever inmate at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr was captured fighting US forces in Afghanistan in 2002 aged 15. In 2010, the Canadian Supreme Court […]
Enlarge (credit: Peter Linehan) A South Carolina inmate used wire cutters and other “tools” like mobile phones believed to be dropped from a drone to coordinate his escape from a maximum-security prison. The inmate wasn’t noticed missing for 18 hours, prison officials said Friday. Jimmy Causey. (credit: South Carolina Department of Corrections) Jimmy Causey was […]
Virginia’s governor has rejected calls to spare the life of convicted killer William Morva, despite his mental disorder, as well as appeals to halt the execution from the daughter of one of his victims. Morva’s lawyers insist that he is suffering from a severe mental illness that the jury were not aware of when they […]
Published time: 20 Jun, 2017 03:55 A courthouse became a crime scene when an inmate wrestled a gun from law enforcement and shot two deputies before taking off into the streets from the Coffee County Courthouse in Manchester, Tennessee. Officer Wade Bassett, 71, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was shot in the stomach and […]
