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These men with Kansas ites were prison inmates on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island, where President Trump suggests ...
Baker is spending a lot of the time these days on Alcatraz, where he appears at the bookstore on the island. He’s there to sign his book — “Alcatraz #1259,” the story of his life, which is mostly a ...
Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died in a homicide Sunday after two other inmates attacked him in an exercise yard, according to the ...
The violence unfolded in the prison’s main exercise yard just after 5 p.m. on Jan. 15, according to a CDCR news release. Prison officials said that officers responded as two inmates, identified ...
One of the UK's largest prisons is failing to tackle an "alarming" amount of drugs that have led to a "spate" of deaths, a ...
On Feb. 24, Kennedy and Yates were accused of using improvised weapons to kill another inmate, 39-year-old Jonathan Rude, in the prison's main exercise yard. Read more about that incident here.
Prison violence is a longstanding problem as people serving life sentences have little to lose. In January, for example, Mario Campbell, 36, was attacked on the main exercise yard at the ...
On Tuesday (May 20), Corey Boyd, 19, who was being held on serious charges including second-degree murder, second-degree ...
A prisoner who attempted to murder another inmate by cutting his throat has been jailed for a further five and a half years. John Etchells, 31, slashed his fellow inmate in the neck when he was ...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has ...