Despite all the publicity over five previous cases of Delaware County prison inmates wrongfully released, fumbled paperwork or staff oversight errors resulted this week in a sixth wrongful release.
What's another word for unreasonable? A Federal Court judge has ruled a British Columbia prison was wrong to deny an inmate's request to buy a thesaurus, rejecting the Mountain Institution's argument that the reference book is not educational.
The federal Bureau of Prisons has long recognized a potential problem with its handling of furloughs of inmates for medical treatment: nobody has the job of notifying crime victims and witnesses that an inmate is being temporarily released.
A hostage situation has ended at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after an inmate assaulted a correctional officer and took another correctional employee hostage.
Authorities have shut down a controversial prison work camp south of Cairns and launched an investigation into claims by a former inmate that prisoners are living a life of luxury.
Curtis Michael Allgier, 31, is an inmate at Utah State Prison who is infamous for his tattooed covered face -- tattoos that include swastikas and Aryan gang-related words and images.
A Santa Rosa man who was convicted of brutally stabbing his girlfriend and hiding her body in a toy box in their apartment died Friday evening after a suicide attempt at San Quentin State Prison on Aug. 23.
The UK's largest and most high profile women's prison is "extremely difficult to run safely and effectively", with almost six out of 10 inmates feeling unsafe at some point, inspectors said.
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