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LEE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Jeffrey Harrison, an inmate at Three Forks Regional Jail, was able to escape twice in just three months. Incident reports obtained by WKYT’s Samantha Valentino outline the ...
A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.
“This inmate was able to grab the firearm and turn the first stage of the safety off,” he said. “With the shackles in place, that did not have to happen.” ...
In February 2024, prison officials launched a new group recreation program at the Polunsky Unit, the state's notoriously ...
Rodney Carr is seeking his release four decades after a prison riot that killed a corrections officer. Several witnesses say ...
Inmates at a Miami immigration detention centre were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to ...
The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and ...