South Dakota prisons struggle to prepare inmates for release, and the support systems meant to help them on the outside often fall short, according to a report from a national nonprofit. The assessment found consistent gaps in support, employment, housing and mental health and addiction treatment for people leaving prison. It also found the state […]
BEE COUNTY — A Beeville man will serve seven and a half years in federal prison after leading law enforcement on a high-speed motorcycle chase that ended in a crash near the Bee County line.
Incarcerated Mainers are pushing back against a longstanding loophole in the Department of Corrections disciplinary policy that allows staff to issue punishments before and regardless of a finding of guilt. “It flat out just denies incarcerated people their due process rights,” said Foster Bates, president of the Maine State Prison branch of the NAACP. Language […]
“You have a life ahead of you. You have the whole world in front of you, and I really hope you make the most of your opportunities,” Yakima County Superior Court Judge Elisabeth Tutsch said.
Belgrade author Canyon Hohenstein draws on his experience leading a Montana inmate wildfire crew for his fictional novel “Who Tames the Flames,” exploring wildland firefighting, trauma, redemption and life with prisoners away from cell walls. Hohenstein discussed the book and the 2021 Swan Valley fire that inspired it at the Country Bookstore on Thursday, reflecting on the incarcerated firefighters he led and the personal stories that shaped his book.
California prison officials have failed to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse and harassment by staff for years, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a new report.
Considered severely mentally ill, the young woman from Frankfort has spiraled downward since adolescence. Now 22, she has had multiple encounters with police, been diagnosed with illness ranging from schizophrenia to psychosis and, in the past four years, has been hospitalized on emergency court orders 20 times—with stays ranging from one to 27 days. She […]
Yellowstone County voters have approved a jail bond once before, in 1984, but only after a jail riot, a lawsuit and an intervention by the federal courts.
