Articles for Prison Officials

Tiruppur jail inmate escapes during power outage
14 hours, 39 minutes ago

Tiruppur jail inmate escapes during power outage

New Indian Express  

TIRUPPUR: Tiruppur city police are on the lookout for a 24-year-old remand prisoner who escaped from the district jail in broad daylight on Saturday allegedly when there was a power cut due to which CCTV cameras were not functioning. Following this, a complaint was immediately filed at the Tiruppur North Police Station by prison officials. Preliminary investigations have revealed that …

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DVAC books three prison officials for misappropriation to tune of ₹1.63 crore
1 week, 1 day ago

DVAC books three prison officials for misappropriation to tune of ₹1.63 crore

The Hindu  

Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption has booked three prison officials and eight private individuals for allegedly indulging in corrupt practices while purchasing raw materials for manufacturing stationery articles and manipulating prison records pertaining to the supply of stationery articles to government departments. According to the complaint, the required raw materials would be procured from the suppliers on tender basis and …

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Telangana Prisons DG asks officials to equip with new legal frameworks
1 week, 6 days ago

Telangana Prisons DG asks officials to equip with new legal frameworks

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Telangana Prisons and Correctional Services, Director-General, Dr. Soumya Mishra, stressed the importance of adopting new legal frameworks and asked the prison officials to be well-equipped with implementing them effectively. She was speaking at the training session on “Sensitization of prison officials regarding New Criminal Laws - 2023 on prison-related matters” on Tuesday at the State Institute of Correctional Administration, …

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News groups sue Idaho prison leader for increased witness access to lethal injection executions
2 weeks, 2 days ago

News groups sue Idaho prison leader for increased witness access to lethal injection executions

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — The Associated Press and two other news organizations are suing Idaho’s top prison official for increased access to lethal injection executions, saying the state is unconstitutionally hiding the actual administration of the deadly drugs from public view. The news organizations contend the public has a First Amendment right to witness the entire execution process, including when execution …

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Prop. 6 supporters ask voters to end slavery in California. Isn’t it already illegal?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Prop. 6 supporters ask voters to end slavery in California. Isn’t it already illegal?

LA Times  

Gathered on a sunny morning in Los Angeles on Wednesday, a coalition of criminal justice reform advocates urged voters to pass Proposition 6 and finally rid California of slavery nearly 175 years after it joined the union — as a free state. Her message was part of a broader campaign pitching support for Proposition 6 as a vote to “end …

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Why Trump’s Latest Harris Attack Works So Well With His Base
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Why Trump’s Latest Harris Attack Works So Well With His Base

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, by claiming she supports “tax-payer funded transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.” His presidential campaign’s most aired and most expensive ad stokes fears about transgender people and zeros in on Harris’ previous comments in which she signaled her support for incarcerated trans people to …

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Prominent Legal Advocate To Be Freed After 37 Years In Prison
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Prominent Legal Advocate To Be Freed After 37 Years In Prison

Huff Post  

Prominent prison legal advocate Mark Wilson was freed after 37 years in prison. Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty/AP/Oregon Justice Resource Center The Oregon Board of Parole granted a release date of Jan. 9 to prominent incarcerated legal expert Mark Wilson, whose litigation efforts inside prison have helped thousands of other prisoners. When they returned, they unveiled the so-called “Oregon Way,” …

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US appeals court says man can sue Pennsylvania over 26 years of solitary confinement
2 months, 4 weeks ago

US appeals court says man can sue Pennsylvania over 26 years of solitary confinement

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — A man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement despite a history of mental illness can sue Pennsylvania prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment, a U.S. appeals court said in reviving the man’s lawsuit. Roy Lee Williams spent nearly all of his time alone from 1993 until 2019, when a legal settlement led the state to …

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US appeals court says man can sue Pennsylvania over 26 years of solitary confinement
2 months, 4 weeks ago

US appeals court says man can sue Pennsylvania over 26 years of solitary confinement

The Independent  

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Wife of California inmate wins $5.6 million in settlement for strip search
3 months, 1 week ago

Wife of California inmate wins $5.6 million in settlement for strip search

Associated Press  

The wife of a California inmate will receive $5.6 million after being sexually violated during a strip search when she tried to visit her husband in prison, her attorneys said Monday. After traveling four hours to see her husband at a correctional facility in Tehachapi, Calif. on Sept. 6, 2019, Christina Cardenas was subject to a strip search by prison …

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A federal judge tosses a lawsuit over the ban on recorded inmate interviews in South Carolina
3 months, 1 week ago

A federal judge tosses a lawsuit over the ban on recorded inmate interviews in South Carolina

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system’s banning on-camera, in-person interviews with inmates or recording their phone calls for broadcast. But in a ruling last week, federal Judge Jacquelyn Austin said the government can restrict free speech rights in areas it controls that aren’t public and the media …

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Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A condemned inmate forced to choose how he’ll be put to death ended weeks of suspense by leaving the decision to his lawyer, who reluctantly told South Carolina prison officials on Friday to prepare for a lethal injection, rather than the electric chair or a firing squad. Owens’ death is now set for Sept. 20, as South …

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Inmate awaiting execution says South Carolina didn’t share enough about lethal injection drug
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inmate awaiting execution says South Carolina didn’t share enough about lethal injection drug

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month said Tuesday state prison officials didn’t provide enough information about the drug to decide whether he wants to die by lethal injection. How much information should be released to a condemned inmate is one of several pending legal issues before the South …

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A day before Darshan’s photo and video went viral, CCB raid on Parappana Agrahara Central Prison found nothing
3 months, 3 weeks ago

A day before Darshan’s photo and video went viral, CCB raid on Parappana Agrahara Central Prison found nothing

The Hindu  

A team of over 100 officials from the Central Crime Branch of the city police raided the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison complex to check for irregularities and contraband items at 3 a.m. on Saturday. The CCB officials found the prison unusually clean and well-maintained on Saturday morning, giving rise to a suspicion that prison authorities and inmates were probably tipped …

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South Carolina Supreme Court to decide minimum time between executions
3 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina Supreme Court to decide minimum time between executions

Associated Press  

The South Carolina Supreme Court won’t allow another execution in the state until it determines a minimum amount of time between sending inmates to the death chamber. But as it set Owens’ execution date Friday, the court also agreed to take up a request from four other death row inmates who are out of appeals to require the state to …

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Attur prison deputy jailor suspended in Salem for allegedly selling grocery items meant for prisoners to local shops
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Attur prison deputy jailor suspended in Salem for allegedly selling grocery items meant for prisoners to local shops

The Hindu  

The deputy jailor of Attur district prison in Salem has been suspended for allegedly selling grocery items meant for prisoners to local shops. However, allegations emerged that prison officials were selling these groceries to shops and that the quality of food provided to inmates was substandard. In response to these allegations, Salem Central Prison Superintendent G. Vinoth, along with anti-corruption …

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Longest-held Russian dissident freed in swap says ‘colors get brighter by the day’ in his new life
4 months, 1 week ago

Longest-held Russian dissident freed in swap says ‘colors get brighter by the day’ in his new life

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Andrei Pivovarov knows there are about 1,000 hours in 42 days. Andrei Pivovarov, a Russian dissident freed in the historic Aug. 1 prisoner swap, poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2024. Andrei Pivovarov, Russian dissidents freed in the historic East-West prisoner swap, speaks during an interview …

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Supreme Court denies California’s appeal for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison
7 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court denies California’s appeal for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from California corrections officials who sought immunity from lawsuits claiming they acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at one of the world’s most famous prisons four years ago. The lawsuit stemmed from the botched transfer of infected inmates in May 2020 from a …

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Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin
7 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin

LA Times  

Gilbert Polanco, a guard at San Quentin for more than two decades, contracted COVID-19 on the job and died in 2020. The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from California prison officials who sought immunity from lawsuits for having transferred inmates with COVID-19 to San Quentin in May 2020, setting off an outbreak that killed 26 prisoners and …

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Georgia prison officials in ‘flagrant’ violation of solitary confinement reforms, judge says
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Georgia prison officials in ‘flagrant’ violation of solitary confinement reforms, judge says

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia prison officials have flagrantly violated a court order to reform conditions for prisoners in the state’s most restrictive holding facility, showing “no desire or intention” to make the required changes to solitary confinement practices, a federal judge said. In a damning ruling, U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell on Friday held officials at the Georgia Department of Corrections …

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Delhi’s CM in Tihar’s Jail No. 2: Books and home food allowed
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhi’s CM in Tihar’s Jail No. 2: Books and home food allowed

Hindustan Times  

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, whose government oversees the functioning of India’s largest prison, was taken to Tihar’s jail No 2 on Monday evening after a special court sent him to judicial custody till April 15, and he was lodged in ward No 4 as the sole inmate. But Kejriwal, who has issued two orders since his arrest on March …

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Two Seoul police officers convicted over deadly Halloween crush
10 months, 1 week ago

Two Seoul police officers convicted over deadly Halloween crush

The Hindu  

A South Korean court sentenced two former senior police officers Wednesday for destroying evidence linked to Seoul's deadly 2022 Halloween crush – the first police officials to be sentenced over the disaster. The two former police officers were handed jail time for ordering in the aftermath of the disaster the deletion of four internal police reports which had identified in …

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South Carolina wants to restart executions by firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina wants to restart executions by firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Hindustan Times  

Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. If the Supreme Court justices allow executions to restart and any additional appeals are unsuccessful, South Carolina's death chamber, unused since May 2011, …

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South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. And they got a lawyer for the inmates to say if the Supreme Court bans electrocution and the firing squad and …

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