'Visitation is rehabilitation': Lawmakers push to recognize right to visit for prison inmates in Colorado
Colorado lawmakers are trying to make it a right — rather than a privilege — for inmates in the state’s prisons to receive ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul to push for prison reform after death of inmate
Her proposals include a new unit called The Future of Prisons in New York State that would create a strategy for safer ...
A Sick Inmate in New York Is Freed After Suing Over Parole Delay
Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.
Judge blocks transfers of 3 transgender inmates to men’s prison
A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a request to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three ...
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Prison re-entry group finds housing for first inmate
The Blair County Prison Re-entry Coalition has finally achieved a long-awaited breakthrough: helping a Blair County Prison inmate who was eligible for release but apparently stymied for lack of a ...
Inmate on dialysis bleeds to death while serving life sentence Missouri prison
James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from ...
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Inmate found dead in cell at state prison in Skippack
SKIPPACK — An inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix was found unresponsive in his cell and ...
Fatal beating of shackled NY inmate Robert Brooks ruled a homicide
Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy ...
Inmate sentenced to over four years for assaulting corrections officer at Talladega prison
A federal judge has sentencedChristopher McCallum, a federal inmate, to 51 months in prison for assaulting a corrections ...