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Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms

For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick glass as unidentified executioners administered the lethal chemical from behind a cinderblock wall

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Prisoners could soon be able to swap an organ for less than year off jail sentence

A bill proposed by Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature would allow prisoners in the US to exchange bone marrow or an organ for time off their sentence, capped at one year

Daily Mirror

Oklahoma Pulls Back the Relentless Pace of Planned Executions

A plan to put 25 inmates to death over two years is reconsidered.

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Court demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case

A circuit court must get more information from the South Carolina Department of Corrections regarding the agency's attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs

The Independent UK

Report: Louisiana often holds inmates beyond release dates

The U.S. Justice Department says Louisiana's prison system routinely holds people beyond their release dates

The Independent UK

Alabama: We want crueler executions

State court gives Gov. Kay Ivey full control over death warrants, which may be both illegal and unconstitutional

Salon

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

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Death row murderer Scott Eizember says he's at 'peace' in last words before execution

A death row killer who took the lives of an elderly couple while trying to stalk his girlfriend across the road said he was 'at peace' before he was given a lethal injection yesterday

Daily Mirror

Oklahoma prisons chief: Minister OK'd inside death chamber

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has reversed its position and now says it will allow an anti-death penalty minister inside the execution chamber for an upcoming execution

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Oklahoma prison officials: Pastor can't be in death chamber

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a condemned inmate's spiritual advisor cannot be inside the death chamber during his execution on Thursday

The Independent UK

2 charged in Christmas Day attacks on Seattle-area substations

SEATTLE — Federal prosecutors have charged two men in the Christmas Day substation attacks in Pierce County that caused power outages and allegedly $3 million in damage.

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Where does Missouri get the drugs it uses to execute prisoners? The supplier is a secret

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time since 2015, Missouri has returned to executing multiple people on death row per year — two in 2022 and two scheduled so far for 2023 — but details about the process remain shrouded in secrecy.

Tribune News Service

MP demands answers after fraudster's bungled escape bid

Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome has called on the Corrections Department to disclose the result of its investigation into Prasit Jeawkok's attempted escape before the New Year holiday.

Bangkok Post

Inmates praised for saving guard being attacked by another prisoner, SC officials say

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two inmates at a South Carolina prison are being praised for stopping a guard from being attacked Tuesday night, according to the state Department of Corrections.

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No food in 9 days for 19 Nevada prisoners on hunger strike

A Las Vegas woman says her son and dozens of other prisoners are on hunger strike over inhumane living conditions at Nevada's Ely State Prison

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Union Station: Missouri Court of Appeals upholds trial court ruling ordering state to resume payroll deductions for Department of Corrections employees

On Dec. 6, 2022, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals upheld a September 2021 ruling by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Edward Beetem in which Beetem ordered the Missouri Office of Administration to resume payroll deductions for Department of Corrections employees. The Office of…

Chicago Sun-Times

Guards at Pontiac state prison harassed gay co-worker, state investigation finds

And high-ranking prison officials were found not only to have failed to address the problems but to have perpetuated them.

Bangkok Post

Inmates can watch the World Cup

The Department of Corrections (DoC) will allow inmates to watch broadcasts of the football World Cup 2022 in prisons across the country.

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Inmate Deaths, Threat Of Federal Takeover Will Determine The Fate Of Rikers Island

The humanitarian crisis worsens as politicians and advocates debate closing or fixing the embattled facility.

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Iowa teen who killed rapist being held in jail after escape

An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist was being held in an Iowa jail and could face a prison term after she walked away from a Des Moines women’s shelter where she was serving probation for a manslaughter conviction

Chicago Sun-Times

Lying Illinois prison officers go unpunished in 2018 inmate death, despite convictions of three guards

Testimony in the case came from six Illinois Department of Corrections employees who admitted they lied to investigators. None has faced punishment, and they all continue to get regular pay increases.

The Independent UK

Alabama prisons reduce meals, nix visits amid inmate strike

Thousands of Alabama inmates are receiving only two meals a day during a prison work stoppage over living conditions

McClatchy Washington Bureau

How a ban on visitors impacted the smuggling of drugs into Florida prisons

Prison officials have long said that inmates’ friends and family members bear the most blame for the flow of drugs and other forbidden items into Florida prisons.

Bangkok Post

King bestows royal pardons

More than 100,000 inmates serving time in jails nationwide will be released early or see their sentences reduced on Saturday under a royal decree to mark His Majesty the King's 70th birthday on July 28 and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother's 90th birthday on Friday.

Tribune News Service

Sentencing Monday in hate crimes case over Ahmaud Arbery’s murder

ATLANTA — The three men convicted of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder will face a federal judge Monday to learn their sentences in the hate crimes case over the 25-year-old’s slaying.

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