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AP Investigation: Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides
The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry and desperate. She’d called every day that week, begging for help. I need […]
AP Investigation: Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides
The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry and desperate. She’d called every day that week, begging for help. I need […]
Civil Rights: Inmate Action-Administrative Segregation-Retaliation
Where an inmate presented evidence that specific defendants placed him in administrative segregation and prevented him from providing his attorney with legal documents shortly after he filed a prior lawsuit […]
Northwest Missouri prison recovering from riot
A northwest Missouri prison is struggling to recover from a riot and the following months-long lockdown. Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron is struggling to recover from the May 12 riot. […]
Northwest Missouri prison recovering from riot
A northwest Missouri prison is struggling to recover from a riot and the following months-long lockdown. Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron is struggling to recover from the May 12 riot. […]
Family of prisoner who died in county jail settles for $600K
The family of a jail inmate who died in custody will receive a settlement of slightly more than $600,000 after jail staff allegedly failed to provide medical care for the […]
U.S. Sentencing Commission survey: Judges say mandatory minimums too high
Most federal trial judges believe mandatory sentences are too long, according to survey results released by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Corrections not liable for man’s blindness
The Missouri Department of Corrections and its medical services arm are not responsible for an inmate‘s blindness. On Tuesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Alex A. Mason’s […]
Bank robbery wasn’t a ‘necessity’
Faced with the choice of living in prison or on the streets, James Richard Cook says he had to choose prison. Then he tried to use that choice to stay […]
Nation Briefs
Extension granted in Blagojevich case Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was granted a 90-day extension to obtain an indictment against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whom he has accused of corruption […]
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