In a sharp political move, US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is investigating pardons issued by former President Joe Biden, including those granted to family members and death row inmates. According to an internal email seen by Reuters, Ed Martin, the department’s pardon attorney, told staff he had been “directed to investigate” whether Biden was…
US to execute three death row inmates this week (Photo: AP) A man who pleaded guilty to killing a convenience store worker by setting her on fire is to be put to death in Texas on Tuesday, one of three executions to be carried out in the United States this week.Matthew Johnson, 49, is to…
Upstate New York prison guard pleads guilty to manslaughter in an inmate’s 2024 beating death (Photo: AP) A correctional officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in connection with the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating at the Marcy Correctional Facility was recorded by officers’ body cameras. Christopher Walrath, 36, was one of…
An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally. Three guards were stabbed and were transported for medical treatment along with two others hurt Friday at Wallens Ridge State Prison in western Virginia,…
New York’s governor on Monday ordered prison reforms and began the process of firing corrections officers who earlier this month beat a restrained black inmate who died a few hours later. Kathy Hochul’s office said in a written statement that she visited the Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York, where inmate Robert Brooks’ beating…
BHOPAL: Women prisoners in Madhya Pradesh will, for the first time, get hair removal cream once a month and shampoo once a week from New Year’s Day, reports.The aim is to help women prisoners maintain personal hygiene, say officials. Also, all prisoners will now get a salad with their meal, and there will be a…
COLUMBIA, South Carolina: Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences. Biden converted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole….
Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multiyear investigation into what federal officials say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs taxpayers…