Familiar names, familiar problems. As the public rethinks harsh mandatory sentences swelling prison populations, a GEO Group offshoot and other private prison firms are focusing on another cash-for-inmates opportunity: privatization of…
George Horn got a bed and it only took two years. That’s two years of sleeping in a prison wheelchair. This month, though, Horn reports…
Virtual reality, meet prison life: Marketplace radio reports this morning on the rising popularity of video visitations with jail and prison inmates. On the surface, it’s…
Apparently, Florida has all along needed a law- or Rick Scott’s blessing – to figure out just how much CS gas (aka pepper spray) state prisons have, where they…
Another day, another prison guard bust. Make that two guards. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) reports that Columbia Correctional prison Sgt. Christopher Michael Jernigan and…
Oh, who needed prison reform, anyway? Certain Florida lawmakers just couldn’t get out of Tallahassee fast enough, even if it meant dropping a major prison oversight bill like…
Reputed Ku Klux Klan Grand Cyclops Charles Thomas Newcomb had two vials of insulin, eight rounds of 9MM ammo wiped clean of prints, a fishing pole…
Updated at 2:08 p.m. Florida Department of Corrections chief Julie Jones issued this statement following today’s arrest of two current prison guards and one former guard,…
A freshly minted state memo on investigating “unnatural” state prison inmate deaths may not do certain dead and dying prisoners a lot of good. The memo…
This jury was ticked. It’s the only explanation for the $510,000 Illinois jurors awarded Michael Beard, a prison inmate whose serious foot injury went untreated for…
