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Jason Thompson, a guard at HMP Isis, was suspended as the Metropolitan Police investigated his involvement in smuggling drugs and contraband into the prison. He was sentenced to four years and six months for conspiracy and misconduct.

Trump's budget proposal allocates $152 million for the first year of expenses to renovate and reestablish Alcatraz as a prison, a project that would cost around $2 billion.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reached a $1.9 million settlement agreement this month with 13 female inmates who claim they were subjected to 'war zone' level violence during a use of force incident in 2024.

The Irish Prison Service confirmed that the inmate died in custody on April 1. All deaths in custody are investigated by the Irish Prison Service, the Inspector of Prisons and An Garda Síochána, where circumstances warrant.

One design depicts a grim reaper wielding a scythe over a crocodile skeleton alongside the text: Alligator Alcatraz and You can't hide, surrounded by small skulls and against a background resembling prison bars.

The high-ranking role comes with a $180,000 to $230,000 salary, the listing states, and "will serve as a trusted advisor to the mayor, first deputy mayor, and the administration's senior leadership on all matters related to the closing of Rikers."

Following Reiner's arrest in the murder of his parents, who were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood mansion on Dec. 14, people have looked back on those red-carpet photos and say that he looked a bit detached from everyone else and even from the reality of the moment.

Lieutenant Thomas Conrad was standing in a control room in Nashville's new central jail when he noticed something off with one of the key rings hanging on the wall. It was midday on December 30, 2019, and in two weeks the still empty jail would take in about seven hundred inmates. While contractors were finishing their work, Conrad, a senior correctional officer with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, was organizing equipment: handheld radios, handcuffs, and keys.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

"Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE has new funding to expand detention space to keep murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists off American streets before they are removed for good from our communities," the statement continues. "Secretary [Kristi] Noem aims to work with officials on both sides of the aisle to expand detention space to help ICE law enforcement carry out the largest deportation effort in American history."

RDAP is a voluntary program that lasts between nine and 12 months (ordinarily, it requires roughly 38 weeks to complete in five-day workweeks, three-hour-a-day segments). The 500-hour program strives to educate inmates on the dangers of addiction. Most importantly, relapse prevention is stressed with the goal of helping inmates during post-release stay clean and sober to avoid reoffending. Congress appropriates more than $100 million annually for RDAP.

Citing the plea agreement, prosecutors said he admitted that on Oct. 23, 2023, he robbed a bank in San Leandro by passing a note to a teller that read, I have a gun give me the money. After the teller gave Tuipulotu $210 in cash, he demanded all the money in the bank's vault, prosecutors said. The teller said she did not have access to the vault, and he left the bank.

Five staffers were hospitalized after an unknown substance was discovered in a Chino prison, authorities said Tuesday, Jan 20. Firefighters with the Chino Valley Fire District responded to the California Institution for Women just before 10 a.m., Tuesday, the district said. They responded after an unknown chemical substance was found on a joint and a Bible page at the prison, according to an initial hazardous materials spills report filed with the state.

The Alaska Department of Corrections does not provide comprehensive access to this life saving medication. "I'm gonna give you a little pinch," Spencer said, sliding the needle into a fold of skin on the patient's belly for the subcutaneous injection. Alaska's not an outlier. Despite the fact that those recently released from incarceration are some of the most vulnerable to dying from drug overdose, addiction experts say that many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment.

A woman was found dead at Santa Rita Jail on Saturday morning, according to an Alameda County Sheriff's Office press release. The woman was identified as 36-year-old Dequita Grace Harrell of Oakland. She was found unresponsive in the women's restroom in the public lobby of the jail around 5:25 a.m. Deputies attempted life-saving measures and requested emergency personnel, but Harrell was pronounced dead at the scene.