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Escaped Baldwin inmates returned to custody Macon Telegraph - Two inmates who escaped Sunday from Central State Hospital are back in custody tonight, according to the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office. Mark Joshua Ruark, 22, and Anthony Cox, 29, were at the hospital for mental evaluations when they escaped ...
Gibson County worker, jail inmates arrested in drug plot at jail Jackson Sun - Gibson County sheriff's deputies arrested a county employee and two jail inmates on drug charges Tuesday in connection with a scheme to smuggle marijuana and Hydrocodone into the Gibson County Correctional Complex, according to a release from Sheriff ...
Women 'watched inmates strip' Beeld - Johannesburg - The SA Human Rights Commission will investigate allegations that 30 prisoners were stripped naked in the presence of women warders at Durban's Westville prison, SABC news reported on Wednesday. It was also alleged that some of the ...
Berkshire correction officer charged with having sex with inmates Boston Online - PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- A former Berkshire County correction officer was indicted Monday on charges of having sex with female inmates. Raymond Dunham Jr., 42, of Dalton, had consensual sex four times with the two Berkshire County House of Corrections ...
Trash around the county being picked up by inmates Georgetown News-Graphic - Scott County inmates have worked to clean up the county in the last few months, and now some officials are asking the public to do their part. Scott County Jailer Larry Covington said crews began picking up litter in March. "We're still doing it as ...
Authorites search northwest NJ for 3 inmates Newsday - SUSSEX, N.J. (AP) _ State and local authorities on Monday evening were searching the woodlands of northwest New Jersey for three escaped inmates. The three men had been assigned to a minimum security prison farm in Sussex, a satellite unit of the ...
Guard, prisoner killed in Brazil prison riot SignOn San Diego - RIO DE JANEIRO ? A prison guard and an inmate were killed in a Brazilian prison riot which ended Wednesday when inmates released hostages and surrendered guns after nearly 24 hours of tense negotiations, police said. Another guard was in hospital ...
Rioting inmates in Brazil kill guard, wound two Reuters UK - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Rioting inmates in a crammed prison in southern Brazil shot and killed one guard and wounded two others on Tuesday, authorities said as police negotiated the end of the rebellion. Some of the prisoners in ...
Jordan shuts down desert prison where rights groups say inmates were ... SignOn San Diego - AMMAN, Jordan ? Jordanian authorities on Monday closed down an isolated desert prison where U.N. investigators and rights groups alleged inmates were routinely beaten and tortured. A spokesman for the Jordanian government denied that the closure of ...
Study finds most Snohomish County inmates on drugs before jailing Seattle Post Intelligencer - EVERETT, Wash. -- More than 70 percent of the inmates at the Snohomish County jail have illegal drugs in their urine when they were booked into custody, judging by a recent study. Out of 537 men and 107 women who agreed to participate in the eight ...