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Rikers Corrections Officer Indicted for Smuggling $15,000 in Cigarettes

It was 200 cigs.

09.26.24

By Kyle Phillippi
Tech

A Math Professor Suggested a Jailed Jeffrey Epstein Give Him Money to Repair His Image in the Black Community

06.02.23

By Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman
Australian Prisons Have a Hepatitis C Problem, and Drug Criminalisation is to Blame

05.11.23

By Aleksandra Bliszczyk
News

Video Shows Cops Beat a Naked Black Man to Death With Handcuffs as Brass Knuckles

04.05.23

By Nora Neus
Tech

Lawmakers Want Prisoners to Trade Their Organs and Bone Marrow for Freedom

02.01.23

By Roshan Abraham
News

Drug-Testing Company Used in Child Custody Cases Investigated for Fraud

01.27.23

By Alice Hines
News

Far-Right Internet Troll Baked Alaska Who Livestreamed Jan. 6 Is Going to Jail

01.10.23

By Tess Owen
News

Feds Want Steve Bannon in Jail for 6 Months After He Told DOJ to ‘Suck on It’

10.17.22

By Greg Walters
Private Prisons Are a Very Australian Problem

06.14.22

By Denham Sadler
News

The Confusing Saga of Vicky White and Casey White (No Relation) Came to a Deadly End

05.10.22

By Mack Lamoureux
News

Cops Allegedly Declared ‘Taser Tuesday’ and Tortured a Man in Jail. Then He Died.

11.17.21

By Emma Ockerman
News

Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Sentenced to Jail

08.23.21

By Tess Owen and Greg Walters

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