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When a person in prison is seriously unwell and is unlikely to recover, they can apply for release on compassionate grounds. The Parole Board declined to refer Kannewischer’s application to a hearing as it required further detail about his diagnosis and prognosis, and a confirmed address to release him to, Miles said. Corrections had applied to multiple accommodation providers before submitting Kannewischer’s application. “Unfortunately, we were not able to confirm a suitable accommodation provider willing to accept the man before he passed away on 4 May 2021.” The Parole Board�...

Posted Laderrick Hopson Staff Report MOBILE, Alabama — A Bay Minette man was sentenced to life in prison in a Mobile County courtroom Wednesday, June 2 for the 2018 shooting at a Prichard gas station. Laderrick Hopson, of Bay Minette was convicted Tuesday, April 20 on murder charges in the death 42-year-old Rodney Martin, who was shot six times at the Energize gas station on St. Stephens Road in Prichard's Whistler community on Feb. 8, 2018. Hopson was 24 at the time of the shooting. In a statement released in April, Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Coy Mor...

A sheriff in Butler County, Ohio, on May 26 announced that his office is ending its relationship with ...

These were not historical accounts of 19th century institutional cruelty, or tales involving some mad faraway sect. They were appalling, shaming depictions of childbirth from women under the care, or control anyway, of New Zealand’s Department of Corrections. Let the record show that these accounts, published by Stuff on Sunday, conflict in vivid and explicit ways with the generalised assurances from the department about what its policy is. Let the record also show policies and practices have time and again proven to be markedly different things in our society, including our government...

Women prisoners are afraid to feed their newborns with handcuffs on. Why is this allowed to happen?