Corrections News Reports
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| Wash. DOC offers 4-step plan to reduce inmate population - 01/06/2009 |
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OLYMPIA, Wash. Budget cuts would mean shorter prison sentences, earlier release and less post-release supervision for some Washington inmates. But officials believe the proposed cutbacks won't jeopardize ... Full story |
| Plan to retest forensic evidence for Mich. prisoners will take at 3 years - 12/18/2008 |
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As they sit in their cells, a large number of Michigan prisoners who say they are not guilty are facing what may turn into many long, cold seasons of uncertainty.... Full story |
| U.S. executions hit 14-year low - 12/11/2008 |
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ORLANDO Executions are at a 14-year low across the nation and fewer death sentences are being imposed, evidence that attitudes toward capital punishment may be changing, a new report says. ... Full story |
| N.M. jail murder case goes to jury - 12/05/2008 |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. An Albuquerque jury began deliberating Thursday whether inmate Robert Young, aka Diablo, is guilty of the 1999 murder of Santa Rosa prison guard Ralph Garcia and the attempted murder ... Full story |
| Pa. county prison remains a legal target - 11/20/2008 |
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LANCASTER, Pa. Assaults by guards. Illegal strip searches. Denial of medical aid. Indifference to suicidal tendencies. Those are complaints made in lawsuits against Lancaster County Prison and prison ... Full story |
| Slain Fla. CO not wearing body alarm - 11/12/2008 |
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MIAMI A Florida corrections officer killed while supervising inmates in a work program was not wearing a body alarm or carrying a radio at the time, and the inmate charged in her killing may not have ... Full story |
| Supreme Court to weigh inmate rights to testing of DNA - 11/04/2008 |
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether prison inmates have a constitutional right to obtain the testing of old DNA evidence that might set them free. In the last decade, DNA evidence ... Full story |
| Texas prison shakedown leads to phones, weapons - 10/28/2008 |
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HOUSTON A systemwide shakedown of the huge Texas prison system is netting authorities more contraband than just illegal cell phones. Officers have turned up 61 weapons, 52 instances of tobacco products ... Full story |
| 2 teens tied to Ariz. corrections officer's murder - 10/24/2008 |
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BUCKEYE, Ariz. A Department of Corrections officer was shot and killed late Saturday in an apparent carjacking near his Buckeye home, police said.... Full story |
| Calif. corrections officer fatally shot at home - 10/17/2008 |
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SACRAMENTO A prison guard in full uniform was killed Wednesday morning outside his Sacramento home as he was leaving for work, police said. Police say 39-year-old Steve Lo was standing near his garage ... Full story |
| Judge: Calif. must pay for prison health care - 10/07/2008 |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. A federal judge scolded California officials on Monday for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health ... Full story |
| Ark. judge: Inmate phone calls not private - 10/02/2008 |
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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. ... 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 |
