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Nearly one quarter of the budgeted positions in the Washtenaw County Jail are vacant amid what Sheriff Jerry L. Clayton has dubbed a “critical” staffing shortage. #TalkPrison mlive.com/news/2019/04/c…

A program that allows inmates to grow trees that eventually are planted in state parks is getting a new, high-profile partner: Bob Ross. The Michigan Department of Natural... freep.com/story/news/loc…

Graduates successfully completed 12-weeks of intense academic and physical training to become certified law enforcement officers. Under staffing is one of the issues cited in a recent Department of Justice report on prison conditions in Alabama.... alabamanews.net/2019/04/25/mor…

Waterwater Plant Superintendent, Dan Smith has teamed up with the Anamosa State Penitentiary to take inmates and turn them into interns.The inmates get a hands on experience while learning... kwwl.com/news/2019/04/2…

Almost six months after a former Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail guard was sentenced to 8 months behind bars in the sexual assaults of two inmates, three former inmates at the jail have filed lawsuits against the jail, its former administrator and... dailypress.com/news/williamsb…

A Florida deputy was fired after being caught on camera kicking an inmate on January 11 after seeing him toss a piece of cookie from the trash to a bird sitting on a dumpster, the Miami Herald reports. #TalkPrison news-journalonline.com/news/20190426/…

The former Las Vegas headliner hopes her story will inspire inmates to look forward to life outside of prison. #TalkPrison fox5vegas.com/news/beyond-ba…

Surveillance video released by Cuyahoga County on Wednesday shows an officer who choked an inmate who was looking for a place to pray and slamming him to the ground. #TalkPrison cleveland.com/metro/2019/04/…

The lawsuit, filed April 15, alleges that the former Columbia County sheriff, Jeff Dickerson, "failed to properly train corrections deputies how to interact with and attend to mentally ill inmates." #TalkPrison pamplinmedia.com/scs/83-news/42…

A flagship California prison medical facility built to improve the state's substandard care is itself providing poor treatment including botched diagnoses and haphazard distribution of medications, California's inspector general reported Thursday.... nbcbayarea.com/news/californi…

On June 6, 2018, inmates should have been locked in their cells in the Morey Unit at Arizona’s Lewis Prison outside Buckeye. But for more than 35 minutes,... abc15.com/news/local-new…

A man sentenced to life in prison for a murder committed when he was 16 has been handed the same prison term. Nunez was... heraldpalladium.com/news/regional/…

A man who spent nearly three decades on Alabama’s death row before he was released in 2015 says he wasn’t surprised that an extensive U.S. Justice Department investigation found Alabama’s men’s prisons violate the Eighth Amendment. #TalkPrison al.com/news/anniston-…

Prison jobs make up a large sum of North Country salaries. Most of the state prisons are located in small, rural towns #TalkPrison wcax.com/content/news/H…

Overall, just 29 Texas prisons provide air-conditioned living units, while another 75 facilities are without. Temperatures inside of jails and prisons at times can exceed 100 degrees. The heat index can reach as high as 150 degrees which can be... reformaustin.org/2019/04/24/hea…

Gov. Larry Hogan’s office said Wednesday the governor has commuted the life sentence of Calvin Ash, a 68-year-old Baltimore man who has spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars despite multiple recommendations from the parole commission for his... baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…

The House unanimously passed a measure on Wednesday to ensure women inmates are provided with necessary hygiene products. The “Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act” (HB 49) was approved 116-0. #TalkPrison floridapolitics.com/archives/29461…

Supporters of the legislation say it will preserve a transgender inmates’ dignity. But opponents fear the bill could open the door to biologically male inmates declaring themselves female, and thereby able to share living space with a female inmate.... turnto23.com/news/state/bil…

To date, 70 percent of graduates remain drug free with no additional arrests. Along with required substance abuse classes, the program’s electives include anger management, adult education classes, career development, parenting classes or church... fox16.com/news/local-new…

In all, 12 people were hurt and four were stabbed in a riot at Piedmont Correctional Institution, the Salisbury Post reports. The prison was still on lockdown Tuesday afternoon, about 24 hours after... newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…