According to a report released on Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, staff at the prison where Jeffrey Epstein was held while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges committed “significant misconduct,” including potentially criminal behavior, creating conditions that allegedly allowed him to commit suicide in 2019.
Read More New security details emerge in Jeffrey Epstein case
As part of Honduran President Xiomara Castro’s vow to tackle gang violence, the nation’s military has assumed control of the prisons.
Read More Honduras armed forces take control of prisons
Dana Rivers, a male-to-female transgender activist and former public high school teacher who shot and brutally murdered an interracial lesbian couple and their adopted son in their Oakland, California, home after midnight in 2016, is now being transferred to a woman’s prison.
Read More Trans woman who murdered interracial lesbian couple and son in 2016 checks into women’s prison
Historical Spotlight
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Theodore Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the “Unabomber,” was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday morning.
Read More Unabomber found dead in prison cell
Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia has died at the age of 79.
Read More Notorious FBI agent and Russian spy Robert Hanssen found dead in prison