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  Report: Over 1,200 Ga. COs worked without overtime pay

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  Audits revealed as many as 20 percent of officers throughout the state did not receive wages

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  How infants are falling victim to the opioid crisis

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  One overlooked “victim” of the opioid epidemic are children born to opioid-dependent mothers who actively used throughout pregnancy

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  The company's main focus is to keep corrections officers and inmates safe while cleaning

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  Bail bond companies gathering signatures for referendum to keep them in business

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  Companies are hoping to block a new Calif. law that would eliminate cash bail to be released from jail

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  Prisons chief: Supplier error got Nev. its execution drugs

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  Hundreds of drug companies had previously refused to supply the state with execution drugs

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  Maine inmate sues for access to Suboxone treatment in jail

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  This is the second lawsuit filed recently over the same issue

• Bail reform is Calif.'s latest, most sweeping move in criminal justice reform

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  Bail reform might be the most consequential and far reaching reform yet, legal experts said

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  NM settles female COs' sexual harassment case for $2.5M

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  The suit accuses 23 male officers of physical threats and verbal abuse

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  New law to make Calif. first state to end bail

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  Critics argue bill will allow dangerous people to go free, not return for trial

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  US appeals court in Chicago revives lawsuit on books in jail

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  Lawsuit alleges a limit on number of books inmates can have at a time violates First Amendment

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  La. voters to decide on new law for ex-cons seeking office

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  Proposal would establish a five-year cooling-off period before a felon can become a candidate

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  Judge: Executions unlikely in Ark. before 2019

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  U.S. District Court won't hear trial challenging state's use of execution drug until April 2019

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  Prosecutor: Shooting of inmate during hostage standoff in hospital justified

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  Tywon Salters overpowered a corrections officer, took his gun and held the nurses hostage

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  Prison, sentencing reform delayed until after midterms

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  Officials hope the decision will head off a nasty debate in the lead-up to midterms

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  Police arrest 4 at ICE protest outside Ariz. jail

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  Authorities say protesters were blocking jail entrance, refused to leave

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  Proposed Ohio amendment would limit drug sentences

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  Amendment will ask voters to reduce penalties for drug offenses, send defendants to treatment

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