Riot Breaks Out at Indiana Prison

Indiana officials suspended plans to accept hundreds more inmates from Arizona following a two-hour riot at a state prison run by a private company.

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The Florida Department of Corrections is investigating how a man wanted for a probation violation managed to slip through multi-agency sweep of parole violators in Orange County a week before he was accused of kidnapping and strangling a 19-year-old woman.

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excerpt: "" Prosecutors are investigating claims that the former head chef and chief groundskeeper at the Oklahoma governor's mansion raped three female prison inmates assigned to work on the mansion's grounds.""

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Ex-Department of Corrections Sgt. Richard J. Kross is the first guard to face criminal charges for the alleged April 8 beating of a Florida State Prison inmate that was caught on tape.

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With less than 24 months left as governor, Jennifer Granholm would seem to have a singular task when she delivers her State of the State address Tuesday: Take an emerging consensus on a variety of tough issues and convert it to an action plan.

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Behind the walls.

Its 3:30 in the afternoon. Im standing in a chow hall, wondering whats going to happen. The silence is almost scary, and you can cut the tension with a knife. When all of the sudden BAM!!!!!!! it happens, what happens? you say.

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The head of the state Department of Corrections has ordered that victims of sex crimes must be notified when those convicted of the attacks remove their state-issued GPS tracking device.

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The head of the state Department of Corrections has ordered that victims of sex crimes must be notified when those convicted of the attack remove their state-issued GPS tracking device.

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PROVIDENCE — The children who play in this sprawling gray Urban League building on Prairie Avenue are under constant guard.

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As states increasingly crack down on hiring undocumented workers, western farmers are looking at inmates to harvest their fields. Colorado started sending female inmates to harvest onions, corn, and melons this summer. Iowa is considering a similar program.

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I wouldn't wish the last year of Theresa Vaughn's life on anyone. But I would like Gov Jennifer Granholm, state legislators and the people running the Department of Corrections to feel a moment of her pain.

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The FBI has taken an interest in the alleged retaliatory beatings of 13 inmates by guards inside the Cook County Jail late last summer, a lawyer for the inmates said Wednesday.

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Will community prisons help or hurt women? The idea for these smaller women's prisons is part of an overall paradigm shift in how the prison system meets, or doesn't meet, the needs of female inmates.

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Timothy Joe Souders lived a hard life and, on Aug. 6, died an even harder death in a segregated prison cell in Jackson. Souders, 21, spent most of his last four days naked, without physician or psychiatric care, his arms and legs bound to a steel bed in four-point restraints.

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