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Harris County sheriff renews his call for a new jail
Houston :: AK :: USA | about 4 hours ago
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Sheriff Adrian Garcia on Friday repeated his call for a new jail and booking center to reduce overcrowding in Harris County's downtown lockups. The county has about 11,500 inmates in jails designed to hold 9,337 people. The county has also shipped another...
Tags: Adrian Garcia, Harris County, bond measure, Houston, Penology, Prison, Harris County Texas
The life in the Kantoor
Thimphu :: Bhutan | about 7 hours ago
Credibility What ‘Kantoor’ is, everyone knows, and nobody in perfect sanity of mind would want to go there, be it even for a night. We have heard frightening stories of Gulag tragedies – of sleepless nights and endless labour in the arctic, meagre diet and marauding...
Tags: Kantoor, detention centre, Bhutan, Thimphu, Political repression, Political repression in the Soviet Union, Soviet phraseology, Prison, Penology, Gulag, Penal labor
Garner inmate to serve 18 months for bomb threat
Bridgeport :: CT :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility A Garner Correctional Institution inmate will have to serve 18 months in federal prison for sending a bomb threat to a federal agency in Norwalk...Sharkany pleaded guilty Sept. 3 to one count of conveying false information through the U.S. mail. According...
Tags: Glen Sharkany, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, pleads guilty, bomb threat, Bridgeport, Penology, Prison, Law Crime
Convicts face charges for assaulting correctional officers
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Two Iowa convicts who recently entered prison are facing charges for assaulting correctional officers this week at the Oakdale prison reception center near Iowa City. Inmate Earl Griffin, 22, who is serving a 55-year sentence from Polk County in connection...
Tags: Fred Scaletta, entered prison, Des Moines, Penology, Iowa State Penitentiary, Prison, Law Crime
Racial tension, poor food didn't cause Northpoint riot report says
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility Inmate displeasure over a modified lockdown and a controlled movement schedule led to an August 21 riot by 1,200 angry inmates at Northpoint Training Center near Danville – not racial tensions or unhappiness over poor food quality. That is the conclusion...
Tags: Frankfort, Prison, Pendleton Correctional Facility, Danville Kentucky, Northpoint Training Center, Penology, Social Issues, Montana State Prison, Prisons in California, Law Crime, Central Valley of California, LGBT people in prison, Pontiac Correctional Center
The ins and outs of the British prison system
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Their latest line of attack criticizes an ‘incompetent’ prison service. But what is the Tory’s solution? It is a sad but true fact that Britain’s prisons are bursting, brimming with prisoners who are stretching penitentiaries to their full capacity.
Tags: Burkina Faso, Lon, Penology, Prison, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Politics
Psychiatric prison books sex for inmates
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 1 day ago
Credibility The Pompey clinic is home to a number of murderers who have been sentenced to indefinate psychiatric care. The paper says prostitutes can be organised via an agency called Flekszorg and provide basic services for €105 and all-in sex therapy for €135.
Tags: psychiatric prisoners, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Law enforcement in Japan, Penal system of Japan, De Telegraaf, Prison, Prostitution, Penology, Human sexuality, Sex trade, Social Issues, Law Crime
DOC defends program reducing lunches at Plainfield prison
Noblesville :: IN :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The medium security prison in Hendricks County has eliminated lunch on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays -- part of a pilot program that could go statewide. The Indiana Department of Correction insists it's not about saving money but what's in the best...
Tags: Indiana Department of Correction, Plainfield Correctional Facility, Indianapolis Star, Kevin Mulroony, D-Indianapolis, Noblesville, Lunch, Breakfast, Prison, Meals, Gastronomy, Brunch
No decision yet on guns for prisons officers --
Arouca :: Trinidad and Tobago | 1 day ago
Credibility No decision yet on guns for prisons officers Juhel Browne jbrowne@trinidadexpress.com Friday, November 20th 2009 Cabinet yesterday considered a proposal for prisons officers facing specific threats to carry firearms when off-duty, National Security Minister...
Tags: prison officers, Martin Joseph, CHOGM, Trinidad and Tobago, Arouca, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Prison
Guard accused of sex with former inmate
Houston :: AK :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility A federal prison guard has been accused of paying a former inmate and resident of a halfway house $440 after two sexual trysts. Robert Louis Zeigler, 39, is charged with improper sexual activity with a person in custody, a state jail felony that carries...
Tags: Robert Louis Zeigler, Houston, Penology, Zeigler, Prison, Law Crime, Social Issues
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