Inmate’s confession, serial murderer tattoos now wants to recant guilty ...
2012-11-18
Behind bars, Christopher Wilson maintains innocence in MacKenzie Cowell’s murderBy Jefferson Robbins - Saturday, November 17, 2012World photo/Jefferson RobbinsChristopher Scott Wilson, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the February 2010 killing of Mackenzie Cowell, at Clallam Bay Correction...
Cost of an inmate phone call from Bay County Jail is $4.24 for connectio...
2013-12-28
By Cole Waterman - December 27, 2013
BAY CITY, MI- Providing a means for
jail inmates to communicate with their loved ones on the outside is a lucrative
business for a Dallas-based company, which supplies phone services to jails
throughout Michigan.
Since
at least 2000, the Bay County Jail’s ...
Las Vegas nonprofit HOPE for Prisoners Inc.,gives former inmate another ...
2012-11-18
BY Kristi JourdanLas Vegas Review-Journal - Nov. 18, 2012Mario Taylor was just a kid when he killed Christopher Beaver 16 years ago.He knows people will label him a murderer. A killer. But he doesn't see himself that way.He admits pulling the trigger, and knows he had to pay."I killed this...
Wilson accepts 14-year plea deal in Cowell killing
2012-11-18
World photo/Mike Bonnicksen Christopher Scott Wilson, center, with attorneys
Emma Scanlan and John Henry Browne, listen as Chelan County Superior
Court Judge John Bridges addresses them in court on Wednesday. Wilson
pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and related charges ...
10 Immigration Detention Centers (ICE) Called Worst in U.S.
2012-11-20
By Ted Hesson(@tedhesson) - Nov. 16, 2012A series of reports released on Thursday call for the closure of 10 jails and prisons holding immigrants across the country, charging substandard medical care, lack of due process and geographic remoteness of facilities, which make it hard for detainees ...
San Quentin State Prison's Richmond Group focuses inmates on reentry and...
2012-11-20
By Nicole JonesWith one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news.Zoom out to just California and that crime rate looks even higher: the city’s murder rate is seven times that of neighboring San Francisco, and more than twice as high as Oakl...
Inmates from Rikers Aid Victims of the SuperStorm Sandy
2012-11-23
Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Inmates at Rikers Island load clothes and linens into a giant industrial washing and drying machine, which was installed in July.By Corey Kilgannon - November 21, 2012There
are plenty of unsung heroes in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but
the story of how t...
Prison book programs aid inmates to unlock their minds from confinement
2012-11-23
November 22, 2012 - By the Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For people behind bars in six Appalachian states, they are one of the few forms of escape — hundreds of used books, wrapped in brown paper and stacked thigh-high under a table, just waiting to be shipped.
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