Platte County commissioners are weighing a proposal that would triple the size of the Platte County Detention Center. The detention center’s last major expansion, in 1998, added 150 beds. The population of Platte County has since grown by nearly 80%, officials said. The jail now houses 180 inmates, with second beds added to some cells. […]
FILE – Josef Fritzl, center, is escorted to the fourth day of his trial in the provincial courthouse in St. Poelten, Austria, Thursday, March 19, 2009. An Austrian court has ruled that the man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be […]
BANGKOK (AP) — A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s system of monarchy died Tuesday in a prison hospital, officials said. Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, was a member of the activist group Thaluwang, known for their bold and aggressive campaigns demanding reform of the […]
Austrian judges have ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison. The decision on Monday was the latest in a legal back-and-forth over Josef Fritzl’s future. The state court in […]
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him. Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads […]
A former Baker County detention deputy was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexual battery on an inmate. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — The father of a man who says he was regularly raped and beaten as a teen at New Hampshire’s youth detention center briefly testified Tuesday, saying his son had a reputation for dishonesty. Daniel Meehan was the first witness called by the state, which is defending itself against allegations that its […]
Apr. 20—The Cleveland County Detention Center announced that an inmate died in custody following a medical episode and subsequent transfer to Norman Regional Hospital. According to a release, on Friday, April 18 at 11:54 p.m., William Kenneth Moore, 36, was declared deceased at Norman Regional. The cause of death has not been released and is […]
BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Flashback to 2022, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) declared a state of emergency due to staffing. The Bernalillo County Jail was facing a 51% vacancy rate – a level too high to properly look after inmates. “It was a stressful time, particularly for officers that were required to work long hours, […]
Apr. 17—Two men charged in a shooting and pickup crash in Santa Fe on Easter Sunday have been released from jail as prosecutors seek pretrial detention for another man they say instigated the incident. Santiago Prada, 34, Steven Sena, 32, and Ricky Leyba, 39, face felony charges in the March 31 incident, which left Leyba, […]
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A former resident of New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Thursday that his house leader and another staffer restrained him in a stairwell while two other workers sexually assaulted him. The four members of what he and other teens called “the hit squad” then carried him back to his room and […]
Grace, 15, remembers when a judge called her a junkie. Her lawyer and probation officer told her to keep quiet in the courtroom at the Scott D. Moore Juvenile Justice Center last July, but she couldn’t. “I didn’t have a reason to do the drugs, but it was all I knew,” Grace told the judge. […]