Officials say inmate tried to stab officer at San Diego area prison
A prisoner serving life for second-degree murder at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center is suspected in the attempted ...
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LA County deputy who slammed woman to the ground outside supermarket faces 10 years in prison
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson scheduled an April 21 sentencing hearing, at which point Kirk will face up to 10 years in federal prison, prosecutors said. Evidence showed Kirk and another ...
When El Salvador agreed to put migrants in "mega-prison," the U.S. paved the way for nuclear power
Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...
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Lawsuit accuses gynecologist at California women’s prison of abusing patients for years
For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit ...
Explainer: What is El Salvador's mega-prison that could take US criminals?
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...
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On LA fire lines, inmates shoulder heavy packs and tackle dangerous work for less than $30 a day
When deployed, those firefighters earn from $5.80 to $10.24 a day, depending on experience, and an extra $1 an hour during active wildfires, according to the corrections department. That means the ...
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Shohei Ohtani’s former translator sentenced to five years for stealing $17m from LA Dodgers star
The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1 million in back taxes, after pleading guilty ...
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Column: LA wildfires are sparking a discussion on prison labor. It's long overdue.
Prison labor that is not properly compensated, whether that is rescuing a community from a fire or manufacturing goods in a factory, should be seen and treated as a fundamental violation of one ...
Los Angeles Times6d
L.A. County sheriff’s deputy caught on camera throwing woman to the ground faces 10 years in prison
Trevor James Kirk, 32, of Santa Clarita, was found guilty this week of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison ...
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The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America’s Worst Criminals
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...
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Why LA is on fire (it’s not just climate change)
Read more: LA fires: Why fast-moving wildfires and those started by human activities are more destructive and harder to contain Nights are warming faster than days globally, and dusk has brought ...
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Old Prisons Are Being Converted Into Stylish Apartments (Really)
It wasn’t until she was signing the lease agreement that someone said, “Did you know this is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton ...