Prisons
The Justice Department is investigating whether conditions at the overpopulated Fulton County Jail, where dozens of inmates have died, are unconstitutional.
As a summer heat wave continues to bake most of Texas, family members of inmates are calling for all of the state’s prisons to be fully air conditioned.
Van Houten, now in her 70s, received a life sentence for helping Manson’s followers carry out the August 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.
The policy would have made "prison a black box," incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon previously told New York Focus.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Department of Correction says that the de Blasio-era practice of notifying the press when someone dies in a detention facility is over.
The Theranos founder was sentenced in November to 135 months for lying to investors about what she had claimed was a revolutionary blood-testing device.
Solitary Watch and Unlock the Box's research sheds light on how frequently the practice, regarded by some as torture, is used in the criminal justice system.
The 8-inch shears were removed “without incident."
One was accused of killing four people. Both were gone for nearly 19 hours before officials knew they were missing.
Corey Harrison, 22, was apprehended by law enforcement Thursday. He and three others had escaped from Raymond Detention Center in Mississippi.