Gov. Hochul to send National Guard into NY prisons if correx officers don’t end illegal strikes
The service members will flood an unspecified number of correctional facilities on Wednesday if the protests don’t end, ...
Governor's prison plan is ambitious to some, but families of prisoners who died say it doesn't go far enough
"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.
Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...
2 NY prisons thrown into chaos as corrections officers launch illegal strike after violent uprising
The disruptive work stoppages — which are illegal under New York law and could lead to severe consequences for individuals and unions that participate in them — occurred at the state ...
Tony Evers will seek a $500 million prison overhaul and the closing of Green Bay Correctional
Gov. Tony Evers' plan to close the decrepit Green Bay prison and rebuild the Waupun prison hinges on closing the troubled ...
Wisconsin governor floats plan to close 19th-century prison and overhaul corrections system
Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison that was built in the 1800s would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Governor Tony ...
Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons
When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.
How body cameras turned a secret, deadly assault into a reckoning at New York prisons
None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the ...
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Inmates with violent records from shuttered prison are being sent to medium-security sites
Instead, they went to mid-level medium-security facilities, according to an Associated Press analysis of Illinois Department of Corrections data. Prison employees believe housing for the ...