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The panel and research team for the new research programme into how Police can ensure it delivers fair policing have been appointed. In March, Police...

Jun 03, 2021 — Malone has three state prisons: Franklin Correctional, Bare Hill Correctional, and Upstate Correctional. Photo: Emily Russell As Gov. Andrew Cuomos administration weighs likely prison closures later this year, thirteen correctional facilities in the North Country could be targets, with most operating far below their inmate capacity. The number of men incarcerated in the regions state-run prison complex has plummeted by nearly half over the last four years. In the 2021 NYS budg...

Updated: 12:06 PM CDT Jun 2, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said Wednesday she is committed to addressing the states troubled correctional system after the unraveling of her $3 billion plan to build and lease new private prisons. This comes after a June 1 deadline for investors to opt into the prison lease plan came and went without any takers. Ivey has said new prisons are a crucial step to overhauling the states troubled and aging prison system. The gove...

Posted By Bryan Rindfuss on Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:06 PM click to enlarge Carmen Cartiness Johnson, The Octagon Room, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60”, Courtesy of the artist Given that it’s as old as the hills, including the ones in ancient Egypt, portraiture might not seem like an apt vehicle to convey contemporary ideas. But the age-old traditio...

Corrections is planning to house high-risk parolees - some of whom may have sexually offended against children - in a residential facility between two So

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found that the longtime top lawyer for the Iowa...

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Screenshot via Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation The county needs a new jail because of the current systems obsolete design, which would require $30 million in renovations, according to Daniel Junior, director of Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation. The upgraded design will include classrooms, provide work skills, and offer more mental-health services. In recent weeks, Junior has been appearing at meetings in the cities surrounding the two jail sites to discuss the countys plan....

Two former St. Louis County corrections officers have been indicted for allegedly...

Three people are facing criminal charges for an alleged conspiracy to smuggle contraband, including drugs and cellphones, into the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center. Prison guard Haneef Lawton, 33, is accused of working with an inmate and his girlfriend to bring the drugs into the facility in exchange for bribes.