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Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison

LA Times  

Erik Menendez, center, listens to his attorney Leslie Abramson, as his brother Lyle looks on in Beverly Hills in 1991. “The methodology to study that case is the same whether it gets media attention or not,” Hochman said Saturday on “Fox & Friends.” “You got to speak to the prosecutors, law enforcement, victim family members and the defense, and only …

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Reputed Mexican Mafia member wounded, another man killed in L.A. County shooting
1 month ago

Reputed Mexican Mafia member wounded, another man killed in L.A. County shooting

LA Times  

A Florencia-13 gang tag in the Florence–Firestone area of L.A. County. Authorities said Juan Garcia, a reputed Mexican Mafia member originally from the Florenica-13 gang, was shot Saturday in La Mirada and another man was killed. A reputed member of the Mexican Mafia was wounded in a shooting Saturday that left a second man dead in Los Angeles County, authorities …

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegedly used ‘other inmates’ phone access codes’ to tamper witness
1 month ago

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegedly used ‘other inmates’ phone access codes’ to tamper witness

Hindustan Times  

Prosecutors allege that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Combs used covert methods, including three-way calls and other inmates’ phone access codes, to contact individuals outside the facility, influence witnesses and engage in blackmail in his ongoing sex trafficking and racketeering case. Prosecutors argued in a motion filed Friday that the material recovered from Combs’ Metropolitan Detention Center cell in Brooklyn suggests efforts …

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Georgia’s Fulton County Jail subjects inmates to ‘inhumane, violent’ conditions that threaten their safety, DOJ finds
1 month, 1 week ago

Georgia’s Fulton County Jail subjects inmates to ‘inhumane, violent’ conditions that threaten their safety, DOJ finds

CNN  

CNN — The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday, announcing the results of a 16-month investigation. “Detention in the Fulton County Jail has amounted to a death sentence for dozens of people who have been murdered or who died as a …

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Inmate imprisoned for murder is beaten and killed by other inmates at California prison
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Inmate imprisoned for murder is beaten and killed by other inmates at California prison

LA Times  

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of prisoner Alberto Martinez at Calipatria State Prison as a homicide. Staff at Calipatria State Prison in Imperial County witnessed the beating death of Alberto Martinez, 46, in the prison yard on Thursday, authorities said. Two other inmates, Jorge D. Negrete-Larios and Luis J. Beltran, began hitting Martinez as …

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Why was 2023 such a deadly year in Los Angeles County jails? It depends on whom you ask
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Why was 2023 such a deadly year in Los Angeles County jails? It depends on whom you ask

LA Times  

Tawana Hunter of Lancaster holds a locket with a photo of her father, Jubal Hunter, who was among the 45 Los Angeles County jail inmates who died in custody last year. “We think about people dying in interactions with the justice system when they’re saying, ‘I can’t breathe,’ with a knee on their neck,” said Nicholas Shapiro, a UCLA researcher …

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Short films on reformed prisoners to inspire other inmates
1 year ago

Short films on reformed prisoners to inspire other inmates

The Hindu  

In a bid to promote rehabilitation of prisoners by showcasing success stories in correctional services, the Ministry of Home Affairs has advised jail authorities to produce short films on the lives of reformed prisoners. In a communication to Chief Secretaries/Heads of Prisons, the Ministry of Home Affairs said the short films of 2-3 minute duration on the reformed prisoners could …

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High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons
1 year ago

High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons

Associated Press  

Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times in the law library at a federal prison in Arizona. In the shadow of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s 2018 beating death at a West Virginia federal penitentiary and financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 suicide at a Manhattan federal jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, the Bureau of Prisons is again under …

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San Quentin needs more guards if it wants reform
1 year, 1 month ago

San Quentin needs more guards if it wants reform

LA Times  

Inside Halden Fengsel, a high-security prison in Norway, inmates choose their own clothing. But what surprised California corrections officer Steve “Bull” Durham most on a recent visit to Halden wasn’t the prisoners but the guards — how relaxed and happy his Norwegian counterparts were, and how casually they interacted with the inmates. Durham knows there will be many California officers …

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Men who 'tortured' paedophile rocker Ian Watkins 'during six-hour hostage ordeal over guitar lessons' were 'killers who recently arrived at the prison': Ex who blew the whistle on Lostprophets star 'c
1 year, 4 months ago

Men who 'tortured' paedophile rocker Ian Watkins 'during six-hour hostage ordeal over guitar lessons' were 'killers who recently arrived at the prison': Ex who blew the whistle on Lostprophets star 'c

Daily Mail  

The men who 'tortured' Ian Watkins did so in a six-hour hostage ordeal amid a row over the paedophile rocker giving other inmates guitar lessons, it has been claimed. The former Lostprophets singer is believed to be in a critical condition in hospital after three prisoners at HMP Wakefield, where he is serving a 35-year prison sentence, attacked him on …

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Revealed: The brutal prison videos filmed on smuggled phones that are being shared online by violent crooks chasing notoriety from behind bars
1 year, 4 months ago

Revealed: The brutal prison videos filmed on smuggled phones that are being shared online by violent crooks chasing notoriety from behind bars

Daily Mail  

Footage seen by MailOnline is now being investigated by the Ministry of Justice Shameless prisoners in the UK are smuggling phones into their jail cells to record themselves taking drugs or viciously attacking other inmates, MailOnline can reveal. Shocking footage, seen by MailOnline and now being investigated by the Ministry of Justice, shows how inmates savagely deal out gruesome jail …

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Indiana attorneys allege poor treatment against man accused of killing two girls
1 year, 6 months ago

Indiana attorneys allege poor treatment against man accused of killing two girls

Associated Press  

— Attorneys for an Indiana man accused of killing two teenage girls six years ago argued before a judge Thursday that the man has been mistreated at the prison he is housed in, requesting relocation to a different facility. Richard Matthew Allen was arrested October 2022 on two counts of murder in the killings of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty …

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A California lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families
1 year, 8 months ago

A California lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families

LA Times  

When California enacted landmark criminal justice reforms several years ago, inmates and their families saw a chance at freedom. “He said he was the top attorney.” Whatever its basis, Spolin’s promotional material impressed people like Amanda Allen, whose then-husband, Johnte, was serving life without parole for a 2006 murder in Bakersfield. Spolin, he said, remarked that the pay was “at …

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‘Serious’ prison failures led to Whitey Bulger’s murder, bombshell DOJ report finds
2 years ago

‘Serious’ prison failures led to Whitey Bulger’s murder, bombshell DOJ report finds

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A damning report from …

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Aaftab plays chess in jail, sometimes with other inmates: Report
2 years ago

Aaftab plays chess in jail, sometimes with other inmates: Report

Hindustan Times  

Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who allegedly killed his live-in partner Shraddha Poonawala in May this year, spends time inside Tihar by playing chess, news agency ANI reported citing jail authorities. Aaftab does not interact with the other inmates in his cell but sometimes plays chess with them. Aaftab spends most of his time alone and plays chess for hours. Aaftab's chess …

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Life and death row: A prison murder ripples through time
2 years, 2 months ago

Life and death row: A prison murder ripples through time

LA Times  

Jarvis Jay Masters says he knew little about the murder of a correctional officer two levels below his cell in San Quentin State Prison. One of the notes Masters says he copied — known as “kites” for the way they are thrown between levels on string — bragged, with a smiley face, that the spear’s tip was so sharp it …

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‘You can’t get out’: Mentally ill languish in California jails without trial or treatment
2 years, 3 months ago

‘You can’t get out’: Mentally ill languish in California jails without trial or treatment

LA Times  

John Haasjes, who has schizoaffective disorder, is one of many mentally ill people who have languished in California jails long after being declared incompetent to stand trial. In November, lawyers for the Department of State Hospitals asked for a “pause” on the order’s requirements given the COVID-19 pandemic, which they said had forced the state to reduce admissions into its …

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Delhi: Tihar jail inmate swallows four 'mobile phones'; doctors remove 2 | DETAILS
2 years, 3 months ago

Delhi: Tihar jail inmate swallows four 'mobile phones'; doctors remove 2 | DETAILS

India TV News  

Highlights An inmate swallowed around four mobile phones in Delhi's Tihar jail He swallowed phones with an intention to sell them to other inmates inside the jail All his business plans were washed away when the mobile phones led to acute stomach pain Delhi news: An inmate swallowed around four mobile phones with an intention to sell them to other …

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I Was Sent To Jail After A Fight At An Antifa Protest. Here’s What Happened There.
3 years, 4 months ago

I Was Sent To Jail After A Fight At An Antifa Protest. Here’s What Happened There.

Huff Post  

A photo of the author wearing his black bloc attire taken the night before he began serving his sentence at Rikers Island. Often, when I told other inmates what I was in for, their eyes would light up, they’d laugh and give me a fist bump or an incredulous “No way!” Though I met a handful of prisoners with radical …

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Trump pardons 73, commutes sentence for 70 others: Full list
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump pardons 73, commutes sentence for 70 others: Full list

Al Jazeera  

US President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to his disgraced former aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of clemency and commutations during his final hours in office. In the decades since, Mr. Ford has been an upstanding member of his community and has used this experience and his decades of expertise to keep miners safe, including promoting …

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