by user | May 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Nassim Benchaabane
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
CLAYTON — St. Louis County Jail Director Doug Burris has asked the County Council to authorize spending about $5.3 million out of $193 million in new federal stimulus money coming to the county to...
by user | May 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Joe Atmonavage
nj.com
BRIDGETON, N.J. — A special master will be appointed to oversee a New Jersey jail after inmates filed a class action lawsuit alleging the county and jail officials failed to properly protect them during the coronavirus...
by user | May 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Noah Cohen
nj.com
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Two officers were hurt in a melee with federal immigration detainees at the Bergen County Jail, a county sheriff’s office spokeswoman said Tuesday. The confrontation occurred Monday after detainees were...
by user | May 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Bill Atkinson
The Progress-Index
PRINCE GEORGE, Va. — Officials at the Riverside Regional Jail are disputing a recommendation by a state study committee that the jail be shut down and its inmates be returned to their localities for holding,...
by user | May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Austin L. Miller
Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.
OCALA, Fla. — An internal affairs investigation has found fault with the ex-detention deputy who was overseeing a Marion County Jail inmate who escaped from a local hospital room in January....
by user | May 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be present in a number of physical or manufactured forms (e.g., powder, pill/tablet, liquid), which presents different on-scene challenges for emergency responders and is turning up in our jails and prisons. According to the...
by user | May 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Lawrence Specker
al.com
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. — The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office reported Saturday that a female corrections officer had been stabbed by an inmate at the Marshall County Jail. According to information posted by the sheriff’s...
by user | May 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Associated Press
By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier as the state aims to further trim the population of what once was the nation’s largest...
by user | Apr 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Associated Press ATLANTA — Authorities were searching Friday morning for an inmate who escaped from custody while being taken to a state prison and residents in neighborhoods south of Atlanta’s airport were being asked to lock their doors. Devonte Detuan Ross...
by user | Apr 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Shawn Jansen
Merced Sun-Star
MERCED, Calif. — Merced County Undersheriff Corey Gibson cited an outdated facility as one of the main reasons an inmate was able to escape from the John Latorraca Correctional Center this week. Charlie Everitt,...
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