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 […]
SOMERVILLE – Somerset County will start sending its jail inmates to the Morris County Correctional Facility on June 1. With no discussion at their meeting on Tuesday, the Somerset County commissioners approved a five-year contract with Morris County that ends on May 31, 2029. Under the terms of the shared services agreement, Somerset County will […]
This is a breaking news story. Check back to idahostatesman.com for updates. To sign up for breaking news alerts, click here. Nicholas Umphenour, 28, the Idaho man charged with shooting correction officers while helping a prison inmate escape while getting treatment at a Boise hospital, stood silent when asked to enter a plea Wednesday afternoon. […]
ASHEVILLE — An Asheville man pleaded guilty May 28 to soliciting Buncombe County Detention Facility inmates to murder a detective investigating him for a child sex crime and a family member of the 14-year-old victim. Austin Dakota Haynie, 23, of Asheville, pleaded guilty in Buncombe County Superior Court to two counts of felony solicit to […]
By Fatos Bytyci and Louise Rasmussen PASJAK, Kosovo/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – In a jail in eastern Kosovo, plans are underway to remove all domestic inmates and open the space for foreign prisoners who will be airlifted from Denmark, more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) away. Denmark is expected to send 300 inmates to the Balkan country, […]
PORTSMOUTH — All inmates in the Portsmouth city jail were evacuated to an undisclosed location early Sunday morning after a fire broke out in the facility’s basement, according to jail and fire officials. The blaze, first reported at 1:38 a.m., began in a tool room, according to a release from the fire department. It was […]
STILLWATER, Minn. (FOX 9) – Two correctional officers were injured after they were assaulted by inmates at the Stillwater prison Saturday morning, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) said. According to the DOC, around 11:30 a.m. at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater, two correctional officers were assaulted by a group of inmates. The DOC said two incarcerated […]
At 13 years old, Joe Sullivan was told he would die in prison. The then-teenager’s life came crashing down around him after he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for robbing and sexually assaulting a woman with a group of friends. “Don’t worry, don’t worry,” said the 48-year-old Sullivan, who has a documented […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video […]
There was a 5k Saturday morning in the name of second chances, and it’s part of Operation New Hope’s mission to reintegrate those affected by the criminal justice system into the workforce and keep them from falling back into a life of crime. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
The California Department of Corrections Rehabilitation is investigating after an incarcerated man was allegedly murdered at Kern Valley State Prison. Officials say 30-year-old Raul E. Mendoza, of Los Angeles County, was violently attacked in jail on May 13 — his fellow inmates, Andrew L. Espinoza, 29, and Frank Vasquez, 44, allegedly used two manufactured weapons […]