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Crime and Justice News
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Michigan Women Inmates Struggle With Drug Addiction
Illegal drugs are so rampant at Michigan's only prison for women that it is harder to stay clean while in custody than on the streets,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 11, 20232 min read
'Unabomber' Kaczynski Dies By Suicide In N.C. Federal Prison
Theodore Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” who killed three people and injured 23 in a bombing spree from 1978 to 1995, died by suicide at a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 8, 20231 min read
NY Prisons Rescind Policy to Censor Incarcerated Writers and Artists
One day after a report exposed a new rule in New York state prisons to block block incarcerated writers and artists from publishing their...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 8, 20232 min read
At the California Institution for Men, Dancing Frees Inmates
In California, after a funding drought in the 2000s, arts programs in prisons have been expanding since 2013, with programs in all state...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20232 min read
NY Prison System Limits Inmate Publishing, Bans Getting Paid
John J. Lennon has built an unlikely career. As a journalist writing within the prisons he covers, he has spent the last decade offering...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20232 min read
Sex Assault Victims In U.S. Prisons May Win Compassionate Release
Aimee Chavira suffered sexual abuse in a Dublin, Cal, federal prison for years by the officers responsible for protecting her. Now,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 6, 20232 min read
Minnesota Democrats OK Bills That Shorten Prison, Probation Terms
After an election when Republicans pounded Democrats for being soft on crime, the Democratic-controlled Minnesota legislature passed a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 5, 20232 min read
More Incarcerated Mothers Post-Pandemic, Putting Strain On Kids
The number of incarcerated women in the U.S. dropped by tens of thousands because of COVID-19. As the criminal justice system returns to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 5, 20232 min read
Florida Prisons Hold The Most HIV-Positive Inmates In U.S.
Florida’s state and federal correctional institutions hold the most prisoners in the U.S. living with HIV, and also the highest...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 5, 20232 min read
OK Probes Disappearances Related to White Supremacist Prison Gang
Twelve disappearances are under investigation by a task force that has focused on the alleged leader of a violent white supremacist...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31, 20232 min read
Holmes Enters Women's Prison, Must Work In Cafeteria Or Factory
Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of defrauding investors at her failed blood testing start-up, Theranos, reported to the Bryan women's...
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Crime and Justice News
May 24, 20232 min read
DOJ Spending $7M to Study 'Correctional Culture and Climate'
The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) will spend $7 million for research on...
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Crime and Justice News
May 22, 20231 min read
Excessive Force Cover-ups Common In New York Prisons
Cover-ups of excessive force are commonplace across New York State’s prison system, finds a Marshall Project review of thousands of pages...
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By Heaven LaMartz
May 19, 20232 min read
Panel Studying Long Sentences Focuses On Inmate Rehab, Victims
Better rehabilitation programs for prisoners and improved services for crime victims are high-priority recommendations of a national task...
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Crime and Justice News
May 19, 20232 min read
NY Mostly Fails To Fire Prison Guards Accused Of Brutality
Over 12 years, New York state officials have documented the results of attacks by hundreds of prison guards on the people in their...
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Crime and Justice News
May 18, 20232 min read
S.C. Searches For Prisoner Released With 16 Years Left To Serve
Jeriod Price had served more than half of a 35-year prison sentence for murdering another man at a nightclub in 2002. Last month, he...
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Crime and Justice News
May 9, 20232 min read
In Close Call, Harvard Students Defeat New York Inmates In Debate
In 2015 the Harvard College Debating Union suffered a loss from a group of college students from the Eastern Correctional Facility, a...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20232 min read
Federal Prisons Deteriorating, Underfunded: Inspector General
The nation's federal prisons are deteriorating. All 123 of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) institutions require maintenance, with a large and...
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Crime and Justice News
May 2, 20232 min read
Federal Prison Staff Shortage Creating Safety Issues
Like many other federal prisons, the corrections complex in Florence, Colo., is undergoing a staffing crisis, with head counts on some...
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Crime and Justice News
May 2, 20232 min read
Inflation Price Increases On Popular Items Are Hitting Inmates Hard
When the price of a can of Maxwell House coffee increased 34 cents over a year ago at New Jersey State Prison commissary, Shakeil Price...
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