Tag: prison

An Oregon serial rapist is set to be released from prison in December after serving nearly 36 years behind bars. Richard Gillmore was arrested in 1986 and called the “jogger rapist” ...

BERKELEY, California - The city of Berkeley is the first city in the nation to start serving vegan food at their jail facilities. The city council passed the resolution that also ...

Highlights In three weeks, jails have contact with as many people as prisons do in an entire year. Each year, U.S. jails process an estimated 12 million admissions and releases. ...

Corrections in the United States is a source of immense controversy. There are endless articles from advocates calling for prison populations to be cut in half, and President Biden supports ...

A man from the Republic of Ireland, who refused to wear a face covering has been sentenced to two months in prison. RTE reports that the Castlebar District Court heard ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A California lawmaker argues that 18- and 19-year-olds aren’t mature enough to do prison time if they break the law, and so she has submitted a bill ...

“I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6” was used in police organizations and advanced officer schools for decades. The “officer safety” proverb encouraged quickly identifying deadly threats ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., is calling for “decarceration & prison abolition.” And despite her head-scratching comments, she appears serious. AOC defended her call for potential "prison abolition" as part ...

Sgt. Steven Floyd, the corrections officer held hostage by a mob of Delaware prison inmates, put his life on the line to save his fellow officers, shouting at them not ...

A group of inmates took guards hostage at a maximum-security prison in Smyrna, Delaware, Wednesday in a brazen attack that forced corrections officials to lock down all of Delaware's state ...