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In May 2025, the Minnesota Prisoner Workers Organizing Committee held a significant rally at the state capitol, demanding an end to forced labor in t ...
Abbey Fielder was charged in August with unlawful acts in the Department of Corrections and second-degree sexual abuse of an inmate.
A CORRECTIONAL Services official, employed in the education unit at the Tswelopele Correctional Centre in Kimberley, has been suspended for allegedly smuggling contraband substances into the facility.
Special housing units that provide increased therapy for those incarcerated are more helpful than putting a person solitary ...
As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...
The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...
The Department of Correctional Services came in for criticism when it briefed Parliament on its action plan to comply with Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka’s remedial action in her report on the ...
The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of ...
The Court of Appeal also highlighted on Friday that it had no power to compel the Correctional Services Department to accept the plea for immediate release from Adam Ma Chun-man, the prisoner ...
The Correctional Services Minister would not reveal the identities of the doctors who diagnosed and approved Schabir Shaik's release. The Department of Correctional Services has revealed extremely ...
An Army spokesman on Thursday confirmed that two inmates tried to escape late last month. “Correctional specialists at the Fort Leavenworth Army Corrections Brigade prevented an escape attempt ...