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How much do states spend on prisoners?

Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.

USAFacts · Sep 15, 2022

How much do states spend on prisons?

Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.

USAFacts · Sep 15, 2022

Family grieve Josh Kerr, Aboriginal man who died in Port Phillip Prison, as coronial inquest begins

Josh Kerr died in a cell in the medical unit of Port Phillip Prison in Melbourne's West in August. He is one of two Indigenous men to die in a Victorian prison in the past five weeks.

ABC News · Sep 15, 2022

R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago results in split verdict; singer faces possibility of longer prison term after conviction on child pornography charges

CHICAGO — It took more than two decades for “Jane” to come forward about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her godfather, R&B superstar R. Kelly.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 15, 2022

Texas man gets life in prison without parole for killing cop

A man has drawn an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole after a jury convicted him of capital murder in the shooting death of a Dallas-area police officer

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2022

Serial: Adnan Syed’s murder conviction that was podcast subject ‘should be thrown out’

Syed has served more than 20 years in prison for the strangling of Lee

Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2022

Hiring Formerly Incarcerated People Is Good, Actually

Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.

Reason · Sep 14, 2022

Adnan Syed from viral Serial podcast could be released from prison as prosecutors find two new murder suspects

The bombshell news comes as prosecutors say two other suspects could be in the frame for the murder of the then 18-year-old Hae Min Lee

Irish Mirror · Sep 14, 2022

Drunk mum swung knife at neighbour while wearing pyjamas

Catherine Hunter carried out the bizarre attack in Eastham earlier this year

Liverpool Echo · Sep 14, 2022

Iowa court orders girl who killed accused rapist to pay his family $150,000

Human trafficking victim placed on probation with risk of 20 years’ prison for manslaughter

Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2022