New Orleans ex-detective convicted of child sexual abuse crimes back in jail Stanley Burkhardt accused of leaving suggestive comments on social media pictures in violation of parole The Guardian - US · Aug 6, 2025
Lawmakers push for federal prison oversight after reports of inadequate medical care Lawmakers are urging the federal Bureau of Prisons to address prisoner health care after an NPR investigation detailed the stories of prisoners nationwide going without needed medical care. WEKU · Dec 12, 2023
Up First briefing: Biden visits UAW; Congress tackles shutdown; Olympic doping hearing Biden will make a historic visit to picketing autoworkers. Congress returns four days before a potential government shutdown. A hearing for Kamila Valieva's Olympic doping scandal begins today. WEKU · Sep 26, 2023
1 in 4 inmate deaths happens in the same federal prison. Why? The Butner federal prison complex in North Carolina is where a quarter of federal inmate deaths occur. It includes a medical facility but inmates aren't getting needed care, there or at other prisons. WEKU · Sep 23, 2023
Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail The family of a nuclear physicist who died by suicide in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his psychotropic medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to a federal medical prison The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2023