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Prisons try to stop drones from delivering drugs, porn and cellphones to inmates
Prison inmates, a remarkably ingenious bunch, are disrupting long-standing methods of smuggling drugs, porn and cellphones the same ... Read more
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Editorials
The Times Editorial: Solving prison overcrowding
Recent outbreaks of violence in Alabama’s overcrowded prisons has brought the U.S. Department of Justice to the state ... Read more
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‘They’ll kill for it’: Ramen has become the black-market currency in American prisons
Instant ramen is delicious, easy to cook, ludicrously cheap and surprisingly non-perishable. Read more
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Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities ... Read more
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Georgia carries out country’s first execution in more than two months
Georgia executed an inmate early Friday morning, setting a modern record in the state while carrying out the ... Read more
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‘Bursting at all seams’: Drugs drive rise in female inmates
EBENSBURG, Pa. – When Kelly Callihan first started as an assistant district attorney in southwestern Pennsylvania back in ... Read more
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Worker who aided in New York prison escape seeks clemency from sentence
In 3-page letter to DOCCS leader, she begs for freedom, saying she is sorry for all the trouble ... Read more
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Indiana lawsuit claims jailed, bleeding woman was denied hygiene products
Records show the jail did not purchase feminine hygiene products at the time of Houglin's incarceration, and attorney ... Read more
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Former Marine’s talks about experience on ’60 Days In,’ how jail changed his career
JEFFERSONVILLE, In.— After two months of a televised social experiment set at the Clark County jail in Indiana, ... Read more
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A good time to be green at the jail
After she completes a few other steps, Jaclyn West has big ideas she wants to implement that are ... Read more