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• Tier Talk Podcast: The importance of women in corrections

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  Fallen female COs had their service questioned when their senseless murders hit mainstream media

• C1 Artwork: Behind the wall

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  Artist Daniel Sundahl created this portrait of a group of female COs

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  Ariz. woman becomes 55th sent to death row in US

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  In comparison, nearly 2,800 men are facing executions in the United States

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  Ariz. woman sentenced to death for locking girl in box

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  Authorities said Sammantha Allen and her husband are responsible for making Ame get into the box the night before as punishment for having stolen an ice pop

• City bands together to raise money for NY CO battling cancer

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  Tammy Criscone has been a corrections officer in Albany County for 17 years

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  Death penalty reinstated for Calif. woman convicted of 1990 murder

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  Maria Del Rosio Alfaro was sentenced to death in 1992 for fatally stabbing Autumn Wallace during a burglary and robbery

• Judge overrules NM prison ban on breast-feeding

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  Prison officials said there are security concerns in allowing a female inmate to breast-feed her infant during regular visiting hours

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  Manson follower, longest-serving female inmate, seeks parole

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  Patricia Krenwinkel was previously denied parole 13 times for the 1969 slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people

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  Attorneys want Ohio woman's death sentence reconsidered

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  Attorneys for Ohio's only condemned female killer are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling upholding her death sentence for the third time

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  How PTSD affects men and women differently

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  Symptoms of post-traumatic stress manifest differently in men and women

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  Inmates learn Braille in hopes of getting work after prison

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  Fourteen female inmates are spending much of the year learning Braille, so they can convert restaurant menus, textbooks and novels into Braille

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  How do corrections leaders spot employees susceptible to corruption?

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  Corruption in prisons, jails and other facilities where people are incarcerated is not new, and yet leaders still struggle to ensure that staff retains high ethical standards

• Mo. prison chief names new top deputy

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  Alana Boyles replaces former adult institutions chief Dave Dormire, who announced his retirement in February amid an agency-wide sexual harassment scandal

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  DOC Director: First woman warden at Iowa State Penitentiary 'best for the job'

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  Patti Wachtendorf said one goal is to prepare the inmates to succeed outside the fence with treatment and job training

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  Miss. names new prison commissioner

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  Pelicia Hall said she will make increased pay for corrections officers a priority

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