Home Daily News Drone delivery of steak, crab legs to inmates… Criminal Justice Drone delivery of steak, crab legs to inmates is intercepted December 10, 2025, 2:17 pm CST A drone dropped... Read more »
Home Daily News Lawyer is accused of charging inmates for… Ethics Lawyer is accused of charging inmates for resentencing petitions despite little chance of success By Debra Cassens Weiss September 5, 2024,... Read more »
I was hopeful that Max’s Justice, USA, a six-part documentary series about Tennessee’s criminal justice system, would deliver its marketing promise of a “compelling, insider’s view of Nashville’s criminal justice system.” Sadly,... Read more »
Sri Lankan Prison Commissioner Gamini Dissanayake announced earlier this week that President Ranil Wickremesinghe pardoned over 1,000 prisoners because of the Christmas holiday. The exact number released was 1,004, comprising 989 men... Read more »
A Fulton County, Georgia inmate’s recent death highlights systematic failures within Fulton’s jail and across its criminal justice system, Dylan Jackson reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Samuel Lawrence was arrested for arson... Read more »
The U.S. Marshals on Thursday arrested one of the four inmates who escaped from the Bibb County Jail in Georgia in the early hours of Oct. 16, Lars Lonnroth reports for 13WMAZ.... Read more »
Five detainees at the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas have accepted a settlement offer after suing the detention center, its doctor, and a former Washington County sheriff for allegedly giving them... Read more »
A group of five Pennsylvania inmates sued the state’s Department of Corrections and its employees, according to a Tuesday announcement from the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project. The lawsuit, filed last week, alleges... Read more »
Inmates in Texas prisons and jails are taking to TikTok as the statewide shutdown aiming to stop contraband drug trafficking stretches into its third week, Michael Karlis reports for the San Antonio... Read more »
Under federal law, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A), a federal prisoner may file a motion for reduction of sentence seeking a “compassionate release” from penal custody. Prior to filing such a motion, the prisoner... Read more »