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LA Men Face Sentencing for Anti-Turkish Restaurant Attack
Two Los Angeles men face sentencing Monday for attacking diners at a family-owned Turkish restaurant while shouting anti-Turkish slurs, hurling chairs at the victims and threatening to kill them.
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US Federal Prisons on Lockdown After 2 Texas Inmates Killed
The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others were injured Monday during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in Texas.
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Workers at Federal Prisons Are Committing Some of the Crimes
An Associated Press investigation has found that more than 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019.
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US Prisons Face Staff Shortages as Officers Quit Amid COVID
The coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the labor market have pushed many prison staffing systems into crisis
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82 Advocacy Groups Are Calling on Biden to End Federal Executions
Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump
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Biden Orders Justice Dept. to End Use of Private Prisons
President Joe Biden has ordered the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons and acknowledge the central role the government has played implementing discriminatory housing policies
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Inmates Facing Big Virus Risks Not Near Top of Vaccine Lists
Prisons nationwide have been hit hard by COVID-19 but most states don’t have inmates near the front of the line for initial doses of COVID-19 vaccine
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How the Coronavirus is Exposing Deeper Problems in the American Prison System
Since coronavirus entered the U.S., nearly 16,000 have fallen ill of COVID-19 and 134 have died. That number does not include people incarcerated in state prisons across the U.S. The Marshall Project’s criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger explains why the general public should care about protecting people in prisons.
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Terminal Island Inmate Among First to be Released From the Federal Prison Following Weeks of Pressure
After weeks of pressure from family members and government officials, an inmate at Terminal Island federal prison walked out Thursday morning, leaving behind the growing coronavirus threat inside. It was a long awaited reunion. Jovena Defrancia said she pushed for weeks to get prison officials to allow her husband, Jason Defrancia, to come home, saying she felt his safety...
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Terminal Island Inmate Released Following Weeks of Pressure from Family, Government Officials
The NBC4 I-Team captured the moment a prisoner at Terminal Island federal prison managed to walk away early from his sentence and the growing coronavirus threat inside. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 14, 2020.
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Federal Inmates to Be Locked in Cells for 14 Days Amid Virus
The federal Bureau of Prisons is locking inmates in their cells at all its facilities for 14 days in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus