CFPB Fines Correctional Facility Money Transmitter for Illegally Freezing and Draining Inmate Payment Accounts

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a consent order against Global Tel Link Corporation and its subsidiaries for engaging in unfair payments practices in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection Act that... Read more »
Death row inmate held in solitary confinement for 26 years can sue, federal appeals court rules

Death row inmate held in solitary confinement for 26 years can sue, federal appeals court rules

Home Daily News Death row inmate held in solitary confinement… Criminal Justice Death row inmate held in solitary confinement for 26 years can sue, federal appeals court rules By Debra Cassens Weiss... Read more »
Death row inmate held in solitary confinement for 26 years can sue, federal appeals court rules

Death row inmate held in solitary confinement for 26 years can sue, federal appeals court rules

Home Daily News Death row inmate held in solitary confinement… Criminal Justice Death row inmate held in solitary confinement for 26 years can sue, federal appeals court rules By Debra Cassens Weiss... Read more »
Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate who didn’t want to make decision

Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate who didn’t want to make decision

Home Daily News Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate… Death Penalty Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate who didn’t want to make decision By Debra Cassens Weiss September 10, 2024, 8:50 am... Read more »
Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate who didn’t want to make decision

Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate who didn’t want to make decision

Home Daily News Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate… Death Penalty Lawyer chooses lethal injection for inmate who didn’t want to make decision By Debra Cassens Weiss September 10, 2024, 8:50 am... Read more »
Longest Serving Inmate to Be Declared Innocent Exonerated After 50 Years in Prison

Longest Serving Inmate to Be Declared Innocent Exonerated After 50 Years in Prison

Glynn Simmons, a 71-year-old man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, has been exonerated, making him the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of a crime, Ken Miller... Read more »

Six West Virginia Corrections Officers Indicted for Allegedly Beating Inmate to Death

Five former correctional officers, and a former lieutenant, at the Southern Regional Jail in West Virginia have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the 2022 death of an... Read more »

Inmate Becomes Fourth Person to Escape Philadelphia Jail This Year

The fourth person to break out of a city jail this year in Philadelphia escaped from the city’s industrial Correctional Center, Ellie Rushing and Chris Palmer report for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Gino... Read more »

LA County: Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested For Inmate Sexual Assault Allegation

A sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles County has been arrested and accused of sexually assaulting an inmate while he was on duty at a women’s jail in Lynwood, California, Keri Blakinger reports... Read more »

Texas Prison Guards Under Investigation for Inmate Assault

An assault by Texas prison guards that left an inmate hospitalized for more than two weeks has prompted a criminal investigation by the prison system’s inspector general, reports Paul Flahive for High... Read more »
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