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Georgia inmate had ‘personal relationship’ with worker he shot and killed, prison official says
Atlanta News First· 16 hours agoAn inmate who shot and killed a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself...
Smith State Prison shooting: Inmate, Aramark employee may have had relationship
WAGA fox local articles via Yahoo News· 2 days agoGLENNVILLE, Ga. - An inmate shot and killed an employee at Smith State Prison over the weekend...
Former Minnesota corrections employee says he was fired after exposing punishment scheme
Tribune via AOL· 11 hours agoA former Minnesota Department of Corrections employee has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired...
A spike in deaths prompted ongoing reforms at Louisville's jail. Are they working?
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 7 days agoMore than 100 people are currently receiving medically assisted treatment for the disorder, and in-...
Denver and other jails are ditching programs allowing inmates to go to work — once a mainstay....
Denver Post· 6 days agoAnd the end of the work-release program came as the city lost 60% of its halfway house beds, further...
Incarcerated women in Mass. now have their own program to prepare them for reentry
The Metrowest Daily News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFRAMINGHAM — By all accounts, Makayla Lowe is a busy inmate at MCI-Framingham. Lowe, 27, has been...
Unintended consequences of Maryland’s ‘Dignity Not Detention’ spark widespread criticism
WBFF Fox45 Baltimore· 5 days agoImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Matthew Elliston. With the passing of Maryland’s...
LGBTQ+ Contestants Say ‘American Idol’ Failed Them: ‘I Saw the Worst of It’
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 5 days agoInmates there weren’t allowed to watch television, he says, except on the day of the September 11...
Did Indiana prison guard unlawfully use pepper spray for punishment?
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 8 hours ago"There is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Officer Smith violated the 8th Amendment,"...
The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment | Duncan Hosie
New York Review of Books· 23 hours agoIn 1991 an inmate named Dee Farmer sued prison officials at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition...