A Sacramento man once described by a judge as “the monster parents fear the most” seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in prison after he…
Read more ‘That man is a monster,’ California serial child molester granted parole. Victims are outragedColorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver judge ruled Friday. The state’s prisons unconstitutionally…
Read more Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rulesWASHINGTON — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison, warning that…
Read more Judge blocks Trump administration from moving former death row inmates to Colorado’s ‘Supermax’ prisonPORTLAND, Ore. — A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of Deante Watts in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood last year. Multnomah…
Read more Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For 2024 Stabbing In Portland’s Old Town – KXLA jury on Friday found former Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators. The two-week trial in Los Angeles federal…
Read more Yasiel Puig found guilty of obstructing justice and making false statements in gambling caseColorado will pay $245,000 to a Muslim man who was forced to shave his beard in prison in violation of his religious beliefs, court records show. Tajuddin Ashaheed…
Read more Colorado to pay $245,000 to Muslim man forced to shave beard in prisonVenezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Friday announced an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners, including opposition leaders, journalists and human rights…
Read more Venezuela’s acting president proposes legislation that could lead to release of hundreds of political prisonersBOSTON — Massachusetts is among a minority of states where you can lose your driver’s license for unpaid parking tickets, tolls and other minor violations. But advocates want…
Read more Advocates seek to ease license suspension rulesCourtesy U.S. Attorney’s Office – District of Oregon PORTLAND, OR – A Guatemalan national who was unlawfully living in the United States was sentenced to federal prison for…
Read more Oregon Wire Transfer Business Owner Gets Prison Time For Laundering Drug Money – KXLGov. Jared Polis unilaterally stalled a specialized prison program aimed at rehabilitating and releasing people who have served decades behind bars for crimes they committed as juveniles and…
Read more Gov. Jared Polis stops releasing prisoners who’ve spent decades behind bars for youthful crimeA South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday on some charges related to his imposition of martial law.The verdict is…
Read more Former South Korean president sentenced to 5 years in prisonA disturbance at a prison in northern Georgia Sunday afternoon left three inmates dead and 12 more injured along with a guard, authorities say. Davisboro, Georgia Police Chief…
Read more 3 inmates dead, 12 hurt afterMIDDLETON — Nearly a quarter of the inmates at Middleton Jail have been transferred to other correctional facilities across the state after a fire Tuesday evening, Essex County…
Read more Displaced Middleton Jail inmates sent to other lockups after fireKerwin Pittman, a social justice activist, has purchased the former Wayne County Correctional Center in Goldsboro, making him the first formerly incarcerated person in U.S. history to purchase…
Read more Former inmate buys Wayne County Correctional Center, plans reentry and workforce campusAn internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public claims that conditions at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility pose little cause for concern, documenting…
Read more State’s own report blows holes in public claims about Michigan women’s prison – Detroit Metro TimesMen who were part of the group of Venezuelan migrants that the United States government transferred earlier this year to a prison in El Salvador demanded justice on…
Read more Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador demand justice after US judge rulingA man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of 80,…
Read more Man sentenced to death for OC killing in 1980 dies in prisonA tip Mark Epstein gave the FBI in 2023 that claimed his brother was killed in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center, and it was ‘authorized by…
Read more Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Was MurderedBOSTON — Massachusetts corrections officials say they’re making progress curbing the amount of illegal drugs being smuggled into the state’s prisons. A report released Wednesday by the Massachusetts…
Read more State touts progress keeping drugs out of prisonsCarissa Wallace started working at the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden two years ago because she felt strongly about helping rehabilitate young people convicted of crimes.…
Read more Violence, 16-hour days and no support: Why staff say they’re fleeing Colorado’s juvenile detention centers