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A number of inmates 'jammed' their cell door locks which prevented prison officers from being able to lock them up as normal, according to the well-placed insider. Staff had to remain on shift ...
Ashirie Smith, 19, and Thierry Robinson, 21, launched the brutal 37-second attack at HMP ... the following day, after a prison officer unlocked his cell door and continued on their rounds.
After banging on her cell door for hours ... highest rate in the world." This number is trending upward: between 1980 and 2022, the female prison population in the U.S. grew by more than ...
Prison officers had to deal with a disturbance at Forest Bank jail in Salford on Saturday (May 31), after some unruly inmates are understood to have jammed the locks on their cell doors.
A flake of blue paint flutters and falls from the bars of the jail cell door as it swings open with ... mean the state report and the jail’s own numbers vary by $783,407. Discrepancies aside ...
Originally, 10 inmates, ranging in age from 19 to 42, escaped from Orleans Parish Prison early on May 16. The inmates pulled a "defective" cell door off ... to estimate the number of inmate ...
Pregnant people are undergoing constant horrors at the hands of the carceral state, and the laws we’ve passed aren’t helping enough.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested ... Justice Center early Friday by yanking open a faulty cell door, moving the toilet and slithering through a hole.
A fifth inmate was captured on May 20 after last week's New Orleans jail break, Louisiana authorities ... on May 16 after pulling a "defective" cell door off its tracks and tearing away the ...
As authorities search for the remaining fugitives who escaped from a New Orleans jail earlier this month, they are also apprehending a growing number of ... open a faulty cell door, climbing ...
A 43-year-old North Little Rock man has accepted a 20-year prison sentence for his role in bringing two 13-year-old girls to a motel for sex with two other men while he was under investigation in ...