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 »
A Montana man who repeatedly made threatening and racist phone calls to a Billings church for two years has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, ABC News reports. Joshua Leon... Read more »
The Tehran Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced two female journalists who covered the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 to prison Sunday, according to Mizan News Agency, the judiciary’s media agency. The journalists,... Read more »
A Washington county executive reports that the number of incarcerated youths has dropped dramatically since King County began sending more young offenders to counseling than to detention, Kery Murakami reports for Route... Read more »
A new report from the Sentencing Project found that the imprisonment rate for Black men has been nearly cut in half since 2000, reports Jessica Washington for The Root. The number of... Read more »
Two nonprofit prison book programs are accusing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) of quietly implementing a new book vendor approval policy that they say amounts to censorship, reports Toluwani Osibamowo... Read more »
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 »
The budget for a new Alabama super-size prison now under construction rose to more than $1 billion, eating into most of the $1.25 billion that lawmakers in 2021 initially agreed to spend... Read more »
Imprisoned Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and placed in a tiny “punishment cell,” his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said in a Sunday Facebook post.... Read more »
Corizon Health Inc., a for-profit medical contractor for prisons, owes more than $82 million to over 1,200 creditors, but has since moved its debts and declared bankruptcy, Beth Schwartzapfel reports for USA... Read more »