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Guards suspected in beating reinstated
Monterey :: TN :: USA | about 2 hours ago
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The state Personnel Board ruled last week there was insufficient evidence to support allegations that the officers stood by or helped beat up an inmate during an unauthorized "extraction" from a caged exercise yard...The allegations were leveled six years...
Tags: Monterey, Incarceration in the United States, Prison gangs, Criminology, Prison, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Blackwater Worldwide, Law Crime
County probation program under fire
Parole :: MD :: USA | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Hamilton County's intensive probation program is so ineffective that the convicts in it are more likely to commit crimes than others convicted of similar crimes who never receive supervision, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction....
Tags: Hamilton County's Probation Department, Hamilton County Commission, Hamilton County Program, Hamilton County Probation Department, successful rate, Mike Walton, intense supervision, Cleveland, Casey DeNoma, supervision probation, Parole, Recidivism, Probation, Sex offender, Penal system of Japan, Prison, Penology, Criminology, Psychopathy, Law Crime
Race Baiting At Its Finest!
The infamous Wal-Mart cutting in line trial has come to an abrupt end. The lady that was shown on tape shoving merchandise away from the cashier and kicking the police officer while she was being arrested has decided to take the plea deal. ...
Tags: racism, race baiting, wal-mart, walmart, trial, merchandise, police, plead, guilty, misdemeanor, assault, disturbing the peace, arrest, charges, probation, jail, prison
Harris County sheriff renews his call for a new jail
Houston :: AK :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility 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 | 1 day 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 | 1 day 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 | 1 day 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 | 1 day 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 | 1 day 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 | 2 days 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
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