DELANO, Calif. – A homicide investigation is underway into the death of an inmate at Kern Valley State Prison last month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Three inmates – Michael Brown, Jerry Dunham, and Rex Dickey – allegedly attacked another inmate, Dwight Gibbs, on June 28, officials said. Staff intervened and […]
Authorities said the death of an inmate Thursday at a state prison in Lassen County is being investigated as a homicide after he was found unresponsive in his cell, corrections officials said. Guards found Hector Hernandez unconscious at 12:34 a.m. as they were completing rounds at High Desert State Prison in Susanville. The California Department […]
Amidst Texas Department of Transportation and city roadworks delays, the Taylor County Jail has taken a proactive approach to fixing roads in the county — one pothole at a time. You could see evidence of the roadcrew miles before catching a glimpse of them. They had already fixed numerous potholes Tuesday on the small county […]
As summer temperatures continue to soar into the 90s, inmates say they struggle to breathe in the hot, thick air inside the overcrowded Clark County Detention Center in Winchester, where the air conditioning has not properly worked for at least a year. Allison Tippins, who has a loved one in the jail, told the Herald-Leader […]
Video evidence of an inmate’s escape from custody was illegally deleted from DeSoto County District Attorney’s Office servers as part of a “conspiracy,” according to District Attorney Matthew Barton. The video reportedly showed evidence of Joshua Zimmerman’s escape from the DeSoto County courthouse in Hernando on Friday, June 14. Zimmerman remains at large. Barton said […]
STORY: :: El Salvador transfers around 2,000 inmates to a ‘mega prison’ :: Salvadoran government handout :: Tecoluca, El Salvador :: Released June 11, 2024 Around 2,000 prisoners were moved to the 40,000-person-capacity prison, considered to be the largest in the Americas. In a video posted by the government, prisoners stripped down to white shorts, […]
Read the latest in our coverage of the death of Anthony Johnson Jr. and other issues in Tarrant County jail. The family of Anthony Johnson Jr. on Tuesday once again confronted Tarrant County commissioners about his April death in jail, and this time were joined by another family now going through the same grief. Relatives […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over the 2023 death of an inmate at Kern’s Central Receiving Facility who was allegedly assaulted by other inmates, placed back in the same communal cell and later found beaten and hanged in the shower. The suit brought against the county by attorneys representing […]
More than a year ago, we set out to find out who is dying in custody of Ohio’s local jails and why these deaths are happening. The Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and USA TODAY Network Ohio reviewed lawsuits, inspection reports, autopsies, obituaries, investigative documents, surveillance videos and other records related to what’s happening inside Ohio’s […]
The Trump-era First Step Act has allowed thousands of nonviolent federal offenders to leave prison sooner, but advocates say they have reviewed numerous instances of inmates remaining behind bars longer than they should be — raising questions about ongoing implementation failures. Sreedhar Potarazu, a former federal inmate who sued his Maryland prison in 2022 over […]
May 31—State police arrested a Providence, R.I., man on Wednesday in connection with two different assaults, one on a fellow prisoner during transport to court and another at the Corrigan Correctional Center in Montville. Police said John Coutu, 37, was being transported by Judicial Marshals in a van from Corrigan to Norwich Superior Court on […]
California has long depended on incarcerated people to battle wildfires. Since the end of World War II, the state has relied on inmates to staff its more than 200 “hand crews” deployed each fire season to lay hoses and help contain the blazes by cutting fire lines free of vegetation. But a steady decline in […]