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Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

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CHICAGO — Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment,...

2 ex-Oklahoma County jail employees charged with felonies

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Prosecutors charged two former employees of the Oklahoma County Jail in separate cases in which they are accused of allowing inmates...

Migrants will replace inmates in a South Texas prison

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DALLAS — Texas is transferring inmates from a state prison to make room for migrants detained by state authorities, a prison system spokesman said...

Authorities find escaped federal inmate in Tennessee

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal agents on Wednesday captured a prison inmate who escaped from a minimum security facility in Tennessee, the U.S. Marshals Service...

Coroner: Jail death of Black man changed to a homicide

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A coroner has changed the death certificate of a mentally ill Black man who died in a South Carolina jail earlier...

South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal

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Days before what could be South Carolina's first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently...

Convict sentenced to life without parole in official’s death

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RIPLEY, Tenn. — A convicted felon was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in a deal with prosecutors in the rape and...

Deaths of 2 inmates at NW Indiana prison being investigated

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WESTVILLE, Ind. — Authorities are investigating the recent deaths of two inmates at a northwest Indiana prison, state correction officials said. ...

Prison break: 29 inmates escape federal lockups in 18 months

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WASHINGTON — Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S. — and nearly half still have not...

Sheriff: Man wanted in baby’s death briefly escaped jail

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LARGO, Fla. — A man accused of killing his infant son in Ohio escaped from a Florida jail but was captured within minutes, authorities...