The nation's jails face increasing pressures as they house large numbers of mentally ill and addicted inmates.
Only felony-level individuals booked into Angelina County Jail in Lufkin, TX are featured in the following photos. The inmates featured are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Source:angelinacounty.net. Gallery Credit:Dan Patrick ROBERTO GUADALUPE GARCIA-AVALOS, 34 Angelina County Jail...
As the U.S. Supreme Court gears up to hear two cases challenging the death penalty, Kansas’ most recent addition to death row, Kyle Trevor Flack, joins the nine other inmates who have been awaiting death by lethal injection, some for more than a decade. Flack, of Ottawa, was convicted ...
It came in the section where Biden re-upped his plans to “buy American.”“We will buy American to make sure everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails are made in America,” he said. The line reflects a growing protectionist sentiment in the U...
A cell for post-trial inmates at the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional FacilityFort Leavenworth Public Affairs JRFC is, according to anofficial statement (PDF), "a state-of-the-art, 464 bed, medium/minimum custody facility with a 48-bed special housing unit built to comply with American Cor...
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In May, as our nation embarked on a prison-emptying spree to stop the spread of COVID-19, Washington state came within one state supreme court vote of letting two-thirds of its inmates free — including Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, who was convicted of killing 48 women and coul...
s southeast.The Guardian reports: “Khalid Batarfi, a senior al-Qaida figure who had been held for more than four years, was among more than 300 prisoners who escaped from the jail in Hadramawt province, the official said on Thursday. Two prison guards and five inmates were killed in the...
Jerry Frajman, 66, said more notice might have allowed people to board up homes and businesses and stock up on food. He was on a city bus in Cedar Rapids when storm sirens started blaring. Frajman said he has been living only on snack food for days. ...
“Joe Biden just told all the Easter egg art decorators in the White House that NO RELIGIOUS IMAGERY is allowed,” reads one X post. “He’s just spit in the face of Christ on the cross who died for our sins to lift up the ULTIMATE sinners.” ...