Tag: Prisons
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EDITORIAL: Making way for more Colorado inmates
Looks like Colorado’s corrections system is about to get more beds to accommodate an uptick in its prison population. The extra accommodations are overdue. So is the state’s newfound willingness to put at least a few more of its lawbreakers behind bars. And kudos to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee at the State Capitol for…
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Lawyers for firefighter ask judge to order his release from ICE facility
Lawyers for an Oregon firefighter who was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fighting a Washington state wildfire are asking a federal judge to order his release from an immigration detention facility
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Raja Jackson arrested for attack on ‘Syko Stu’ that was caught on livestream
Raja Jackson has been arrested on a felony charge weeks after he was caught on video assaulting a pro wrestler in a fight that was supposed to be scripted
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Wellness Equity Alliance Calls on Bernalillo County to Provide Quality-Based Transition Plan for Addiction Treatment Program at the Metropolitan Detention Center
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Wellness Equity Alliance (WEA) has been notified that Bernalillo County will terminate its Addiction Treatment Program (ATP) contract at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) effective October 31, 2025. The decision came without explanation or a transition plan, despite the program’s record of expanding access to care and reducing recidivism.…
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Lawyers for 5 men deported to an African prison accuse Trump’s program of denying them due process
Lawyers for five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July say they have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or explanation and with no access to legal counsel
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A brutal beating by deputies was caught on tape. They were cleared by state police anyway
Never-before-seen footage shows two Louisiana deputies punching an inmate more than 50 times during a jailhouse strip-search in 2019
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Brad Lander, over a dozen local politicians arrested at Manhattan Immigration Court
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and more than a dozen other local elected officials were arrested Thursday afternoon after demanding to oversee a controversial detention center at Immigration Court in downtown Manhattan. The leaders were zip-tied and detained after demanding access to the 10th-floor holding cells that have become an Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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Idaho without answers in investigation of ‘authentic’ leaked Kohberger prison video
BOISE, Idaho — The source of a security footage leak of Bryan Kohberger in an Idaho prison cell remains undiscovered a month after videos of the man convicted of killing four University of Idaho students published online in direct violation of Idaho Department of Correction policy. Prison leaders pledged in August to root out the…
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Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing feared being shot by police before surrendering, sheriff says
A Utah sheriff says the 22-year-old man charged with killing with Charlie Kirk was afraid of being shot by police and agreed to surrender as long as it was done peacefully
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Florida carries out record 12th execution this year on man convicted of killing wife’s family
A Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wife’s sister and parents and setting their house on fire has been put to death