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For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that they broadcast on social media before, during and after the riot are influencing even the sentences in their criminal cases

WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A 43-year-old Connecticut inmate died Friday from COVID-19-related complications, the Department of Correction announced Saturday. It marked the state's 21st COVID-related inmate death since the pandemic began about 18 months ago, according to Karen Martucci, a DOC spokesperson.

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Inmates stage uprising at St. Louis jail dogged by unrest St. Louis leaders are once again trying to find answers after the second significant inmate uprising in two months at a downtown jail By JIM SALTER Associated Press April 5, 2021, 7:30 PM • 4 min read Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.ABCNews.com ST. LOUIS -- Detainees broke windows, set a fire and threw chairs and other items out of a ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s daily increase in coronavirus infections exceeded 500 for the fourth straight day, a pace unseen since January, as experts raise concern about another viral surge amid a slow rollout in vaccines. The 543 new cases reported by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Saturday brought the national caseload to 104,736, including 1,740 deaths. More than 320 of the new cases came from the Seoul metropolitan area, home to half of the country’s 5...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s daily increase in coronavirus infections exceeded 500 for the fourth straight day, a pace unseen since January, as experts raise concern about another viral

Email* Submit A correction officer from New London who is charged with sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman while she was in custody at the Niantic womens prison appeared in court Thursday morning. Wesley Applegate, 38, of 100 Ocean Ave. was charged Monday with second-degree sexual assault in an incident at York Correctional Institution in November. He was arraigned in person at New London Superior Court on Thursday morning before Judge Shari Murphy after being released ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When her 11-year-old son Jacob was kidnapped by a stranger in a mask holding a gun, Patty Wetterling wanted to know how this could have happened. What did the cops need to catch predators that they didnt already have? That was 1989, and her questions led to the creation of Minnesotas first sex offender registry in 1991. Back then, it was a private list designed to quickly show law enforcement if convicted sex and kidnapping offenders lived in an area by requiring them to regi...

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ordered that correctional officers wear body cameras and that surveillance cameras be installed at five California prisons citing repeated abuse of inmates with

Published March 11. 2021 9:57PM  HARTFORD (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Connecticut prison officials are imposing detention conditions that are too harsh on a former death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer, ordering the state to relax those conditions. Richard Reynolds, convicted of killing Waterbury officer Walter Williams in 1992, is detained at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers under the highest Level 5 risk level. He says he is confined to hi...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ten new cases of COVID-19 have been reported at the state prison in Newport, the Department of Corrections said Thursday.