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Released during COVID, some people are sent back to prison with little or no warning

"Where is the fairness?" One mother was sent back after a single failed drug test, and her family's life has now been turned upside down for more than a year.

WEKU

Ex-cop Lane will report to Colorado prison in Floyd killing

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, has been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado in two weeks

The Independent UK

Senate to hold hearing on crisis-plagued federal prisons

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to hold an oversight hearing on the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press reported that the agency is keeping its embattled ex-director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor

The Independent UK

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US keeping ex-prison chief as top adviser after rocky tenure

The federal Bureau of Prisons is keeping its former director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor, at least for a short time

The Independent UK

Garland swears in new US prisons chief in push for reform

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration looks to reform the beleaguered agency

The Independent UK

Federal Government Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison

Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

Reason

Biden's New Bureau of Prisons Director Won't be Able To Run Away From the Agency's Corruption

The federal prison system is plagued by corruption and civil rights abuses.

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Prisons chief deflects blame for failures, angering senators

With just days left in his tenure, the embattled director of the federal prison system faced a bipartisan onslaught Tuesday as he refused to accept responsibility for a culture of corruption and misconduct that has plagued his agency for years

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell has returned to Florida — but this time in a prison uniform

Ghislaine Maxwell has returned to Florida, though under far different circumstances than her previous time as lady of the house at ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.

Miami Herald

Ghislaine Maxwell moved to low-security prison in Florida

Disgraced socialite serving 20-year sentence for procuring teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse

The Guardian - UK

Ghislaine Maxwell ‘moved to low-security prison in Florida’

Ghislaine Maxwell has been sent to a low-security federal prison in Florida to serve out her sentence for facilitating the abuse of underage girls by Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports.

Evening Standard

Senate panel subpoenas federal prisons director to testify

The outgoing director of the Bureau of Prisons has been subpoenaed to testify before a Senate committee examining abuse and corruption in the beleaguered federal agency

The Independent UK

Feds moved cartel member to Colorado’s Supermax in 'torturous' attempt to make him talk about 'El Chapo,' lawsuit alleges

DENVER — A man described in court documents as being in “middle management” of a drug cartel this week sued the U.S. Justice Department, claiming his imprisonment in Colorado’s Supermax prison is a sham, a “torturous” attempt to make him talk about drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and a…

The Denver Post

Why Derek Chauvin will be moved from state prison to comfier federal facility after new sentence

Derek Chauvin was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years in federal prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights

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‘They might have to give birth in chains’: Abortion access behind bars after the end of Roe v Wade

Abortion access in prisons was already ‘abysmal.’ The end of Roe v Wade made things even worse, Josh Marcus reports

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US settles lawsuit alleging abuse of men detained after 9/11

The settlement with the Justice Department includes $98,000 to be split among the six men who filed the lawsuit.

Tribune News Service

R. Kelly taken off suicide watch at Brooklyn federal jail

NEW YORK — R. Kelly was taken off of suicide watch Tuesday after the convicted R&B singer complained that officials at Brooklyn’s federal jail placed him in isolation for no reason.

The Independent UK

Feds settle suit alleging abuse by men detained after 9/11

The Justice Department has settled a long-running lawsuit filed by a group of men rounded up in the weeks after the September 2001 attack who say they were abused in a federal lockup in New York City

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The Independent UK

Jeffrey Epstein: How did the disgraced paedophile financier die?

Epstein died in 2019 inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York - five years later and secret files about his associates have been made public

France 24

Ghislaine Maxwell put on suicide watch ahead of sentencing, lawyers say

Jailed former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch – despite not being suicidal – according to her lawyers, who said they would move to postpone her sentencing for sex trafficking if she remained in isolation.

WEKU

4 inmates escaped from a minimum security prison in Virginia

The four escapees were found to be missing at approximately 1:45 a.m. Saturday. Details about their disappearance were not released by the Bureau of Prisons.

The Independent UK

Oregon's prison chief in lead for top federal prisons job

Colette Peters, who runs Oregon’s prison system, has emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system

Tribune News Service

State representative advocates for Uvalde victim’s dad to leave Kentucky prison to attend daughter’s funeral

FORT WORTH, Texas — A state representative is advocating for the father of a Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victim to be able to attend his daughter’s funeral after a report that he was denied compassionate release from a Kentucky prison.

WEKU

Five things to know about one of the deadliest federal prisons

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at a prison in Illinois. NPR and The Marshall Project uncovered violence, abuse and deaths there. Here are five takeaways.

WEKU

How the newest federal prison became one of the deadliest

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

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