In-person visitation for inmates at Missouri state prisons has resumed for the first time this year. COVID-19 policies suspended in-house visits at the start of the pandemic. These restrictions were lifted in select locations last June, but as cold & flu season returned, they were once again put in place. Now, due to availability of…
In-Person Visits Resume Only for Vaccinated Missouri Prisoners
A Painter’s Warning From CCP Political Prison
Commentary Recently, the armed conflict between Israel and Pakistan in the Gaza Strip has aroused a lot of attention and discussion. Reports in the Western media are on the left, middle, and right, depending on the author’s viewpoint. I was impressed by a comment that might be more correct. The author said that what happened…
Prisoners Released for COVID-19 Safety Sake Brace Against Possible Return
Commentary The idea behind prison is to rehabilitate the redeemable criminals and lock away for life the truly evil ones. When the pandemic began to ravage the nation’s prisons, Congress passed a provision in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act allowing sickly and nonviolent inmates who had served most of their time to…
Woman Confesses to Murdering Teen Over 30 Years Ago, but Avoids More Prison Time
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—There was no shortage of tips about who killed Pamela Pitts, a rowdy but compassionate 19-year-old whose body was found burned beyond recognition in a pile of trash in 1988. A Satanic cult. A drug dealer. A cowboy. An ex-lover. A guy nicknamed “Halftrack.” Or maybe it was an overdose at a spot in…
Man Who Fatally Shot 3 at Kansas Jewish Sites Dies in Prison
An avowed antisemite who testified that he wanted to kill Jews and was sentenced to death after he shot and killed three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City in 2014 has died in prison, the Kansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 80, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional…
Putin Foe Navalny to End Prison Hunger Strike on 24Th Day
MOSCOW—Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Friday he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it would put his life at risk. In an Instagram post on the 24th day of his hunger strike, Navalny said he will continue to demand a visit from his…
Gunmen Free More Than 1,800 Inmates in Attack on Nigerian Prison
YENAGOA, Nigeria—More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said. Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack in the city of Owerri, but a…
Designer Mossimo Giannulli Released From California Prison
LOS ANGELES—Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli has been released from a California prison and is under home confinement following his imprisonment for his role in a college admissions bribery scheme, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Giannulli is now under supervised release administered by a Bureau of Prisons field office in San Pedro, California, according…
A Private Prison Is Expected to Lose Its Federal Contract. No One Can Find Where Its Nearly 800 Inmates Can Go
A private prison is struggling to find facilities to take in nearly 800 inmates before its contract with the federal government expires in three months, Cleveland.com reported. CoreCivic operates the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, Ohio, through a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service that expired Sunday, Cleveland.com reported. The company received a three-month extension…
Ex-Prisoners to Get 150 UK Probation Service Jobs Helping Offenders Turn Their Lives Around
The UK government has promised it will give 150 jobs in its probation service to ex-prisoners by next April, it was revealed on Thursday. The former prisoners will reportedly help people still in jail but nearing the end of their sentences to prepare for release back into the community. “The job of probation is to…
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