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UMATILLA COUNTY — Umatilla County’s two state prisons finished the first step of immunizing all adults in custody against COVID-19 this week by successfully offering the first doses to all inmates, according to spokespersons from the two prisons. Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla finished offering first doses to all adults in custody at the prison on Wednesday, March 3, according to a TRCI spokesperson, which capped off initial vaccine efforts at the county’s two pr...

Solitary confinement abuse sparks hunger strike in Louisiana’s Angola Prison By Gloria Rubac posted on March 3, 2021 Angola State Prison was the 18,000-acre Angola Plantation before the Civil War, named after the African country from which many of the enslaved people in Louisiana were kidnapped. The plantation was worked then by enslaved Africans and now by imprisoned workers of African descent. Incarcerated workers in Louisiana’s notorious Angola Prison began a hunger strike early Feb. 1...

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TROY, N.Y. — Rensselaer County District Mary Pat Donnelly announced Wednesday that Rashad Edwards, 36, of Troy, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of criminal possession of a weapon, admitting to the entire indictment in the January 2019 stabbing death of Brianna Haughton. Edwards, who was released on parole in connection with a previous charge, was arrested following an investigation into the death of Haughton. Haughton’s body was found on Jan. 14, 2019...

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Get our free mobile app Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer announced Monday that Douglas Thompson, 56, of Jackson, was sentenced to five years in State Prison as a result of a previously entered guilty plea to Death By Auto in a 2019 crash that later killed a Toms River man. Billhimer said the sentence is subject to the terms of the No Early Release Act, meaning that Thompson will be required to serve at least 85 percent of his prison sentence before he may be considered for parole eligi...

Inmates in culinary program bake cookies for grieving Indiana State Prison staff Lt. Eugene Lasco died Feb. 21 when he was coming to the defense of a fellow correction officer and an inmate stabbed him. Credit: Indiana Department of Correction Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 2:24 PM EST March 2, 2021 ROCKVILLE, Ind. — Inmates at the Rockville Correctional Facility in the Oakland City University Culinary Arts program got the chance to stray from their typical cu...

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