Arkansas — (AP) The state Department of Corrections began 2022 with a statewide lockdown of prisons due to rising COVID-19 cases among prisoners and … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS, January 2022
1. Ohio — (Associated Press) The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to supplement its more than 6,000 fixed security cameras by … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS, December 2021
New York — (Press Release) Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of criminal justice reforms Oct. 22 that give formerly incarcerated New Yorkers a second … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS, November 2021
Missouri — (NBC News) Ernest Johnson, 61, was exe- cuted Oct. 5 by lethal injection at a state prison in Bonne Terre. His lawyers claimed that he had … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS: October 2021
Pennsylvania — The advocacygroup Straight Ahead! issupporting two new bills. Thefirst would allow the possibilityof parole for over 5,000 … [Read more...]
News briefs, July 2021
Arizona—Prison officials are taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used in Nazi extermina-tion camps, to kill death row inmates, The … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS, JUNE 2021
South Carolina -The failure to find drugs to carry out lethal injections led lawmakers to pass a bill that would force Death Row prisoners to pick the … [Read more...]
News Briefs
1. USA — Last year, the state of Texas carried out the most executions in the US with nine. Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee followed with three each. … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS
USA — Private prison companies GEO and Core- Civic are being sued for forcing detainees in their private prisons to work for free, or, in some cases, … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS
Raleigh, North Carolina — The ACLU Statewide Campaign for Smart Justice is moving to end putting incarcerated pregnant women in … [Read more...]