Books to prisons: How an Alabama pen pal program is helping inmates stay connected through reading
Books to prisons: How an Alabama pen pal program is helping inmates stay connected through reading
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Books to prisons: How an Alabama pen pal program is helping inmates stay connected through reading
Dean Hoffman, 60, died by suicide after being placed in solitary confinement for nine days at Waupun Correctional Institution.
Inmates at this bucolic but brutal prison have long been singing the blues to sustain themselves, and a new compilation of gospel songs continues the legacy
GEO Group Inc., faced with allegations that making immigrant detainees labor in the company’s civil detention centers constitutes human trafficking, will attempt to convince the Tenth Circuit on Monday to revive its defense of derivative sovereign immunity.
There is growing alarm about Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail after the 10th inmate death at the facility this year amid an ongoing DOJ probe into longtime issues of overcrowding and sanitation. But critics say jail leadership doesn’t want to fix the issues because they have ulterior motives, which includes a new $2B facility.