Prisons
Stillwater prison said the situation was "resolved without incident." Advocates said the inmate action was an impromptu response to unsafe conditions.
Danelo Cavalcante was seen on cameras at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday in Pocopson Township, roughly 1.5 miles from the prison.
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.
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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.
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."