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‘Cooking someone to death’: Southern states resist calls to add air conditioning to prisons
Politico via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoTemperatures inside some prison cells in the South routinely exceed 120 degrees in the summer months. Inmates in these facilities often resort to drinking toilet water to ...
Woman escapes Florida prison, leads troopers on multi-county chase in stolen car: FHP
WFLA Tampa Bay· 6 hours agoA “prison escapee” was arrested Tuesday after evading multiple southwest Florida law enforcement...
Man who killed Boston-area native, police officer sentenced to life in prison
The Republican· 1 hour agoThe man who shot and killed a Utah police officer originally from the Boston area will spend the...
Maryland finalizes switch of medical care for state-run prisons, jails
The Baltimore Banner· 2 hours agoWith a vote from the state’s top spending board, the state is officially ending its relationship...
Florida prison escapee driving stolen car arrested after bolting from Sarasota deputies: FHP
FOX 13 Tampa Bay· 4 hours agoA woman wanted for escaping from a Florida prison is heading back behind bars. According to the...
Wisconsin warden jailed hours before news conference on prison death investigations
NBC 10 - FOX 14 Monroe· 4 hours agoMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prison warden was jailed Wednesday just hours before a scheduled news conference where officials planned to discuss the findings of investigations into multiple dea…
Lancaster County commissioners approve reshuffle of debt payments
Lancaster Online· 56 minutes agoLancaster County commissioners unanimously agreed Wednesday to reissue up to $30 million worth of...
Warden of Troubled Prison Becomes Jail Inmate
newser· 2 hours agoWanggaard said he was briefed on the developments Tuesday by the head of the state Department of Corrections. Wanggaard is chairman of the state Senate...
Dodge County Sheriff announces arrest of Waupun prison warden, 8 others
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 34 minutes agoThe former warden and eight other workers are facing charges of misconduct in office and abuse of residents of a penal facility.
To Avoid Prison, Trump May Have to Convince a Probation Officer
Politico via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoWill Donald Trump avoid prison? It may depend partly on his ability to convince a probation officer that he would be “amenable to supervision.” That’s according to Martin ...