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CCTV shows Mexican drug lord's prison escape
CCTV footage shows the moment the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman escaped from prison through a tunnel dug in his cell.
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What it’s like to actually eat the food in Oakland County Jail
"A former prisoner describes what it’s like to actually eat the food at a Detroit-area jail; the failings of Aramark, the company the Michigan Department of Corrections contracts for food service; and the thriving underground economy that supplements state-issued meals."
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Obama commutes sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders
Early releases are part of the administration’s effort to reform harsh 1980s drug sentence laws.
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Obama Set to Become First Ever President to Visit Federal Penitentiary
The United States has a prison problem. We lock up more people than any other country in the world in terms of actual numbers and percentage of population. We represent 5% of the population
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Inmate Found Cut Nearly in Two, Organs Missing After Prison Riot
Nearly 15 hours after a riot at a Northern California prison, guards found a missing inmate sawed nearly in two, with his abdominal organs and most chest organs removed, his body folded and stuffed into a garbage can in a shower stall a few doors from his cell. Details of the gruesome May killing at the medium-security California State Prison, Solano, are laid out in an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press under a public records request.
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Ross Ulbricht Expresses Optimism And Seeks Help In First Published Letter From Prison
Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht's first published letter from prison addressed supporters and attendees of this year's liberty-focused New Hampshire event known
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Researcher who spiked rabbit blood to fake HIV vaccine results slapped with rare prison sentence
Dong Pyou Han admitted that he intentionally spiked rabbit blood samples with human antibodies to give the impression that the vaccine was working.
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This is Rikers
From the people who live and work there.
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2nd New York prison worker charged in killers' escape - CNN.com
A second prison employee has been charged in connection with the stunning escape of two convicted murderers from a maximum-security facility in New York.
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Dustin Diamond Sentenced to 4 Months in Jail for Stabbing Incident
"Saved By the Bell" actor Dustin Diamond was sentenced today to four months in jail for the stabbing incident that happened last December. Wisconsin Judge Paul Malloy ordered the 38-year-old actor to report to jail on Sunday, according to the Associated Press, for the guilty misdemeanor verdicts of carrying a concealed weapon and of disorderly conduct that came back last month after a three-day trial.
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Children held in UK detention centers
It has been revealed that children as young as 14 are imprisoned in adult detention centers in the UK.
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The man who was jailed for 22 years – on the fantasy evidence of a single hair
On 3 April 1981 Kirk Odom was walking near his home in Washington DC when he was stopped by a police officer. It was just a random passing in the street. Odom had done nothing, been nowhere. He was an unexceptional 18-year-old trying to raise his infant daughter Katrice who was then less than a year old. The officer pulled a sketch of an unidentified black man out of his pocket and invited Odom to agree that the person in the drawing looked strikingly like him.
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RCMP officer gets 30 months in jail for lying at Robert Dziekanski inquiry
One of four Mounties involved in the Taser-related death of a Robert Dziekanski in 2007 is going to prison for lying about what happened. Kwesi Millington was sentenced Monday to 30 months behind bars for lying at the public inquiry into the Polish immigrant’s death. The Crown had asked for him to serve 18 to 26 months in custody, while his defence wanted him to get a year conditional sentenced, to be served in the community.
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New York fugitives 'spotted at cabin' near prison break
Police hunting for two escaped killers have found evidence in a New York cabin after a witness reported seeing someone fleeing from the area.
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Why we spend billions to keep half a million unconvicted people behind bars
Imagine staying behind bars for months or years -- without ever facing trial
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How Prisons Kick Inmates Off Facebook
It takes a little bit of work to get off Facebook. To suspend your profile, you have to walk through some settings pages and submit a form explaining why you’re de-activating. And if you want to permanently delete a profile, you have to submit a different form, then wait several days. But for at least four years, the Facebook accounts of incarcerated Americans had a fast track to suspension.
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Oscar Pistorius out on probation in August
Oscar Pistorius is set to be released on probation on 21 August, South African prison authorities say, after serving 10 months in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend. The Paralympic star was jailed for five years in 2014 for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp. Ms Steenkamp's parents have said that the time he has served is "not enough for taking a life".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Bail
John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system.
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Kalief Browder commits suicide
A New York man who spent three years behind bars at Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime has taken his own life, his attorney told CNN. Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old sophomore when he was arrested, and later charged with second-degree robbery. He was released in 2013 when the charges against him were dropped. Browder's story drew national attention when he was profiled in a story in the New Yorker, which also reported on Browder's death.
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Fredrik Neij Released From Prison
Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij has been released from prison today. Neij was the last person to serve a custodial sentence handed down after the Pirate Bay trial, marking the end of a controversial chapter in the site's turbulent history.
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