Corrections News Reports
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| Ark. judge: Inmate phone calls not private - 10/02/2008 |
| FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Interrogation room confessions aren't the only way a crime suspect's words can come back to haunt him at trial. With jails across the country using automated recording systems to ... Full story |
| Atlanta courthouse rampage trial begins - 09/23/2008 |
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ATLANTA, Ga. Prosecutors played a haunting audiotape of a 2005 courthouse shooting rampage that left four people dead as they launched their case against the alleged gunman Monday, while his attorneys ... Full story |
| 3 inmates dead, 25 injured in Tijuana prison riot - 09/19/2008 |
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SAN DIEGO A riot at Tijuana's notorious La Mesa State Penitentiary has left three inmates dead and 25 people injured as prisoners threw rocks and set fires to protest alleged police brutality, according ... Full story |
| Calif. correctional officers union seeks Schwarzenegger recall - 09/10/2008 |
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SAN FRANCISCO California's prison guard union said on Monday it will seek the recall of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he ordered a pay cut for its members amid the state's protracted budget deadlock.
The ... Full story |
| S.C. inmate disarms CO, shoots self - 09/03/2008 |
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COLUMBIA, S.C. In a two-pronged response to an attempted suicide in a Columbia hospital emergency room, the state prison agency is reviewing its procedures and equipment while the hospital decided to ... Full story |
| Private companies asked to provide jobs for inmates - 08/26/2008 |
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WASHINGTON Four years after they were thrown out of Washington prisons, private companies are being asked to come back to provide jobs to inmates.
The state Department of Corrections has hired ... Full story |
| Ill. prison plan draws controversy - 08/25/2008 |
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PONTIAC, Ill. By Thursday morning, a commission considering Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to close a central Illinois prison will have a mound of new information to weigh -- the opinions of dozens of people ... Full story |
| 'Fugitive Mom' to stand trial on Mich. prison escape charge - 08/21/2008 |
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PLYMOUTH, Mich. A California woman who escaped from a Michigan prison more than 30 years ago and remade her life as a suburban mother of three is "extremely uncomfortable" back behind bars and wants ... Full story |
La. vows to reverse the state's reputation
as world's incarceration capital - 08/18/2008 |
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NEW ORLEANS Jailers and prison wardens attending the 138th American Correctional Association convention ended their gathering Wednesday, while their Louisiana hosts vowed to reverse the state's reputation ... Full story |
| Canadian CO's death during fitness training a 'mystery' - 08/13/2008 |
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EDMONTON, Alberta As colleagues mourned his death this week, officials continue to wait for medical reports to figure out why a young corrections officer died during training two weeks ago.
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| Link between Mexican Mafia, shooting death of L.A. county deputy investigated - 08/05/2008 |
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LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy gunned down Saturday outside his boyhood home in Cypress Park had been assigned to guard the most dangerous inmates in the county, including members ... Full story |
| Pepper-spray burns blamed for Ohio jail death - 07/29/2008 |
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SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio An array of autopsy photos in the case of Summit County Jail inmate Mark D. McCullaugh Jr. showed his windpipe was so badly burned from inhaling streams of pepper spray that it ''clearly ... Full story |
| Fla. inmate admits to killing Fla. CO - 07/23/2008 |
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DAYTONA BEACH "I snapped. I killed her."
Witnesses said they heard prison inmate Enoch Hall say that repeatedly on the night corrections Officer Donna Fitzgerald was killed.
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| 2 Tex. jail officers fired over prisoner death - 07/15/2008 |
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas Two Harris County Jail officers have been fired for their actions following the death of an inmate earlier this year, officials announced Friday as federal authorities continued ... Full story |
| Calif. CO's murder prompts call for safety vests - 07/09/2008 |
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WASHINGTON Bureau of Prisons officials are considering equipping federal guards with safety vests following the murder of Atwater correctional officer Jose Rivera.... Full story |
| 2 hostages at Maine state prison released unharmed - 07/01/2008 |
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WARREN, Maine Two hostages held by a knife-wielding prisoner were released Monday night without serious injury and the hostage taker was back in custody following an hours-long drama at the Maine State ... Full story |
| Calif. federal prison officer fatally stabbed by 2 inmates - 06/26/2008 |
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ATWATER, Calif. Two inmates fatally stabbed a federal penitentiary correctional officer Friday afternoon in an incident under investigation by federal authorities.
Jose Rivera, 22, was attacked ... Full story |
| Innovative medical facility proposed at Calif. prison - 06/19/2008 |
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OTAY MESA, Calif. A court-appointed state health care receiver in the state's prison system wants to build a 1,500-bed medical facility in Otay Mesa, part of a $7 billion statewide package to improve ... Full story |
| Several inmates stabbed, 1 shot in Calif. prison riot - 06/09/2008 |
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CRESCENT CITY, Calif. Pelican Bay State Prison riot that broke out in an exercise yard Friday morning was stopped by correctional officers after a number of inmates had been stabbed, and one was shot. ... Full story |
| 2 Texas officers exonerated in custody death trial - 06/04/2008 |
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