New women's jail facility being explored by Canyon County commissioners
The Board of County Commissioners has started a phased approach process to build a new women's facility on the Pond Lane ...
Gov. Evers announces Corrections Reform Plan, including closing Green Bay Correctional
MADISON, Wis. (AP-Modified) — Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers that proposes ...
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Man sentenced to life in prison in decade-old murder of woman left near Chapman HIghway
Knox County Judge Hector Sanchez ordered Rose to serve life in prison for Leinart's 2013 murder in Knoxville. Rose entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors. Leinert's last contact with her ...
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Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday, returning to ...
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Ombudsman assists woman denied visitation at area correctional institution
The Ombudsman received a complaint from a woman who was denied visitation with a friend by an area correctional institution. She has visited her friend several times in the past but was taken off ...
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Judge stops prison transfer of trans women amid therapy ban
A federal judge’s ruling has temporarily prevented the transfer of three transgender women from women’s facilities to men’s prisons ... gender identity and correctional facility placement ...
Detroit News16d
Judge blocks transfers of 3 transgender inmates to men's prison
Washington – A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to ...
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Women prisoners banned from putting dirty underwear in washing machines as lack of 'basic care' driving self-harm, inspectors say
Female prisons have a self-harm rate 8.5 times higher than male jails, as women experience a lack of "basic care" - including a "bizarre rule" that bans them from putting dirty underwear in ...
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'Everything is changing every minute': New prison rules for trans women on hold
A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any ... a low-security men's institution in a Dallas suburb. "In here, we do not exist ...
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Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Move Trans Women to Men’s Prisons
By Shaila Dewan A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enacting President Trump’s executive order to house transgender women with male inmates ...
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Judge blocks federal prison system from moving three transgender women to men’s prisons
(CNN) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.