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Un comando armado se llevó al ex paramilitar mientras era atendido por una urgencia médica y sin hacer un solo disparo.
Jun. 9—ALBANY — The state Assembly approved a bill Monday that would end double-bunking, a controversial practice, in state medium security prisons. The union that represents 18,000 correction officers and sergeants, applauds the measure. 'RIGHT-SIZING THE SYSTEM' "Forcing incarcerated individuals to be "double-bunked" was a necessary step decades ago when the state had to increase the ...
For a working jail, major parts of the Workhouse don't work. Every time it rains, water leaks through the flat tin roof and pools on the gymnasium floor. In its kitchen, which produces only bread, insects scurry near a wall-sized row of nonfunctioning refrigerators that serve as storage. Entire housing units are empty, leaving the bathrooms and showers to deteriorate in a slime of soap scum, rust and dirt. Detainees often describe the Workhouse in the most extreme terms. Some call it hell. Officially, St. Louis calls it the Medium Security Institution. Inhabited parts of the jail are ...
Mayor Tishaura Jones announced Corrections Division Commissioner Dale Glass's retirement Wednesday Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 12:33 PM CDT May 14, 2021 ST. LOUIS — Charlene Deeken isn’t one for the spotlight, but this week’s abrupt retirement of Corrections Division Commissioner Dale Glass changed that. “You know I’m not keen on this sort of thing,” she told me as our interview began. “But this bothers me a lot. “It bothers me a great deal that he's been disrespected in this fashion.” Deeken retired April 20, the day St. Louis May...
The Providence Journal CRANSTON — Standing before a line of news people, her lawyer behind her and two dozen protesters and supporters behind him, Marie Franco, the mother of the man who died a month ago in Medium Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions, begged for someone “to come forward and tell me what really happened to him.” Holding a photo of her son and saying she had been crying for two days straight, Marie Franco said she was angry and “hurt inside.” He was cremated on her birthday, she said. And two days ago, she got the ashes. “I miss my son,” she said. “Th...