Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
Under the Illinois public records law, AP obtained a list of 406 inmates housed at Stateville as of August 2024 and matched ...
Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons
When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.
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Ex-Stateville inmates sent to medium-security prisons despite violent records, data shows
Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
California woman busted with heroin-filled Bibles addressed to prison inmates learns fate
Heroin hidden in two Bibles found on a California woman were destined to be delivered to two prisons, the Justice Department ...
Kate Middleton Helped Inmate Mothers Feel 'Comfortable' Despite Them Being 'Nervous' During Prison Visit
Kate Middleton visited a women's prison to highlight the importance of strong mother and baby relationships to a child’s ...
Kate Middleton, “Picking Up Where She Left Off” Before Cancer, Spends Time With Moms in Prison
On Tuesday, the Princess of Wales continued her return to work with a visit to a mother and baby unit in a women’s prison.
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Women released from prison following Mississippi Today investigation, mother sharing her story
Following Mississippi Today's investigation into a hazy legal theory used to imprison women who used drugs during their ...
Kate urged to ‘tell them the truth’ by women inmates during prison visit
The Princess of Wales has made the promotion of the early years development of children one of the key elements of her public ...
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Missing Key at Women’s Prison Triggers Security Lockdown and Investigation
Several thorough searches were conducted of all areas of the Women’s Prison compound, as well as of the inmates. Immediate steps were initiated in consultation with the Prisons’ locksmith to ...