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Mentally ill and alone, they die by suicide in prison. Will reforms save others?
As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...
10 escape from New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall while lone guard left to get food
NEW ORLEANS — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole ...
Where is Rose West now? Inside the serial killer’s life behind prison bars
ROSE West is a convicted serial killer who murdered ten girls in her Gloucester home. Her horrifying crime spree was aided by ...
Sawed pipes and taunting messages: How a mass escape exposed a New Orleans jail's security failures
The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...
Three men sentenced to decades in prison for murder in NYC gay bar drugging scheme
A judge sentenced three men to decades in prison for facilitating a years-long drug-induced robbery scheme at NYC gay bars ...
Arrested New Orleans jail worker says he helped inmates to escape after stabbing threat
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested and is being held on a $1.1 million bond after ...
Jail worker arrested in inmates’ escape
A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a ...
Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 5 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape
Everything we know with 5 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape - Three people have been arrested in ...
New Orleans jail, site of a brazen inmate escape, faces flooding and plumbing failures
The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing “significant flooding” from what a ...
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Prison on wheels visits U.K. schools to teach kids about life behind bars: "You are now gonna become prisoners"
Students at an elementary school in England weren't sure what to think when a prison on wheels recently ... to make the interactive experience behind bars as realistic as possible.