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One unexpected outcome from the conflict is the role prisoners of war camps played in prison policy. For Norway, POW camps planted a seed of human dignity that decades later blossomed into the ...
PUBLIC SHAME. AND WHAT THIS ALL MIGHT MEAN. TODAY, HE WAS SENTENCED TO THREE AND A HALF TO SEVEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON. FORMER SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL JESSIE O’NEILL TELLS US ...
House Bill 3006 would require the installation of climate control in state prison facilities by 2032. About two-thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities ...
(The Center Square) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for closing another prison as part of his newly revised budget proposal. If that happened, it would be the fifth state prison that ...
A prison governor who had a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss has been jailed for nine years. Kerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a "rising star" of the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder ...
Staff and inmates have long complained the 111-year-old prison is outdated, but it plays a critical role in Minnesota’s prison ecosystem. Minnesota will shut down the state’s aging Stillwater ...
BAYPORT, Minn. — State leaders have agreed to a “phased closure” of the Stillwater state prison which will be completed in 2029, citing safety and costly maintenance concerns at the historic ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed closing another prison in his revised budget proposal. Newsom didn’t specify which prison could be closing, but did propose that it could happen by October 2026.
State leaders have agreed to a “phased closure” of the Stillwater state prison which will be completed in 2029, citing safety and costly maintenance concerns at the historic facility.
BAYPORT, Minn. — The state of Minnesota announced plans to shutter the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater in a phased closure, a move some employees and labor unions strongly oppose.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) says its Stillwater prison will be undergoing a phased closure as part of the state’s economic plan, as well as decrease the amount of current ...
The state claims it can relocate correctional officers, but union leaders argue that the closures will exacerbate existing staffing issues and increase inmate violence. Pennsylvania Gov.