Hawaii inmate sues state, private prison operator

2010-03-17T13:30:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Hawaii inmate sues state, private prison operator over alleged rapes by 2 guards in Kentucky</div><div><p>A Hawaii inmate who claims she was raped by two guards at a private prison has sued the state and prison operator Corrections Corporation of America.</p><p>The woman says in the lawsuit filed Mon...

ACLU sues over violence at private prison in Idaho

2010-03-11T15:45:22Z

<div><p>The American Civil Liberties Union sued state prison officials and a private company Thursday, claiming violence is so rampant at the Idaho Correctional Center that it's known as "gladiator school" among inmates.</p><p>The ACLU filed the lawsuit against Gov. Steve Beshear ordered the women moved from Otter Creek Correctional Complex to a sta...

Prisons Secret Release

2009-12-30T17:16:45Z

In these undated photos provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections are inmates Derrick King, 48, Alfred Wooten, 40, and Quince Campbell, 25. They are three of at least 18 men released this fall from prison under a se...

Virginia Execution

2009-11-17T18:34:45Z

This undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows an electric chair. Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to be executed by choice of electrocution Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old

Inmate Grenade

2009-11-16T11:01:21Z

In this image made from a March 2005 video released Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, a prison guard points to the the spot where a non-lethal grenade landed after it was thrown into an inmate's cell at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, Illinois Department of Corrections shows Brian Dugan. On Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, a DuPage County jury in Wheaton, Ill., said that Dugan should be executed for the kidna...

Sniper Execution

2009-11-10T09:17:15Z

FILE -This recent but undated photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10, 2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around...

DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad Executed In Virginia

2009-11-10T08:31:14Z

JARRATT, VA - UNDATED: In this undated handout photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections, shows the gurney in which convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad will be put to death at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,

Sniper Grip of Fear

2009-11-10T00:31:05Z

FILE -This 2004 file photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the execution gurney at the Greensville Correctional Center's death row in Jarratt, Va. Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Tuesda...

No to private prisons

2010-02-24T12:09:31Z

Arizona taking a risk with its plan to privatize nearly the entire state prison system

Arizona officials, trying to save money, are on the verge of seeking bids from private prison companies, which would share the job of managing the stateÕs 40,000 inmates.

The state will likely come to regret passing this critical function on to the private sector.

It is a government responsibility to arrest, charge, try ...

Private prison reaches $1.3M settlement with EEOC

2010-02-24T18:58:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Colo. private prison operators reach $1.3M settlement in sex discrimination lawsuit</div><div><p>The operators of a Colorado private prison have agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that male officers forced female workers to perform sex acts to keep their jobs.</p><p>The federal Illinois Department of Corrections shows Michael C. Finton. Finton, 29, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to murder federal officers or employees after attempting to detonate what he ...

Slain Student Appeal

2009-09-22T11:34:45Z

FILE - This undated photo released by Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 affirmed the death sentence of the convicted rapist in the 2003 kidnapping and death of National Civil Police arrest two suspects of an attack against a vehicle of Guatemala's Prison System, in which officer Prudencio Pineda was killed on September 7, 2009 in Guatemala City. Three officers of the Prison System were killed a...

GUATEMALA-POLICE-VIOLENCE-ATTACKS

2009-09-07T12:25:58Z

Members of the National Civil Police observe and AK-47 rifle as they arrest two suspects of an attack against a vehicle of Guatemala's Prison System, in which officer Guillermo Padilla was killed on September 7, 2009 in Ferguson as CEO of Corrections Corporation of America</div><div><p>Prison operator Corrections Corporation of America said Monday Chief Executive John Ferguson will retire, effective Oct. 15.</p><p>Damon Hininger, who s...

Forrest Killed

2009-08-13T00:00:21Z

An undated photo provided by the Gleorgia Department of Corrections shows Charman Sinkfield. Sinkfield was arrest Wednesday Aug. 12, 2009 by U.S. Marshals and was charged in the robbery and shooting death of ex-boxing champion

Sweethearts Slaying

2009-08-01T03:45:10Z

This July 31, 2009 photo provided by the Louisville, Ky. Metropolitan Department of Corrections shows Edward Edwards. Prosecutors on Friday charged the Kentucky man with killing high schoo...

People Kelsey Grammer

2009-07-28T04:00:23Z

This undated photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows Freddie Glenn who is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder in 1975 of Karen Grammer, the sister of "Frasier" star

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