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If Wade Wilson gets death sentence he'll join 8 from Lee, Collier on Florida death row
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoMethods of execution in Florida In 1923, the Florida Legislature passed a law replacing hanging with...
Georgia Inmate Had 'Personal Relationship' With Worker He Shot and Killed, Prison Official Says
US News & World Report· 2 days agoAn inmate who shot and killed a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself had a personal relationship with the woman, a prison official said Monday ...
Former Minnesota corrections employee says he was fired after exposing punishment scheme
Tribune via AOL· 23 hours agoA former Minnesota Department of Corrections employee has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired...
Northwest Indiana air quality advisory extended to Thursday
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 39 minutes agoThe state has extended into Thursday its Air Quality Action advisory for Lake, Porter, LaPorte,...
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...
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...
Bethenny Frankel's new Lifetime movie is based on a '70s campus murder
Today· 3 days agoBethenny Frankel, the reality star who became a household name during her time on Bravo’s “The Real...
Jails Collect Mentally Ill And Fail To Provide Care, Says Civil Grand Jury
San Francisco Chronicle· 12 hours agoLast week, a Santa Cruz County civil grand jury released a report exploring mental health care in county jails. It alleges that corrections staff abuses the use of solitary confinement intended ...
The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment | Duncan Hosie
New York Review of Books· 1 day 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...