NEW YORK — New York prosecutors urged a judge Friday to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin serving a 2 1/2-year prison term, more than a year after he was convicted of trying to […]
RALEIGH — On Thursday, Gov. Roy Cooper announced that a “North Carolina Juvenile Sentence Review Board” has been formed by an executive order. Executive Order 208 created a four-person advisory board panel that will review […]
HARTFORD, Conn. — Shortly before COVID-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held town hall meetings for inmates about the vaccines and put up informational posters around the facility. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The warden who ran the beleaguered federal jail when disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself has been put in charge of another prison despite an ongoing federal investigation and in direct contradiction […]
RALEIGH — One of two men convicted in the murder of Michael Jordan’s father in 1993 will be released from prison in three years, state officials said Tuesday. The N.C. Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d be going home three weeks early because of COVID-19. It made her feel bad to leave […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina prison officials released a plan Thursday to test all of its inmates and staff members for the coronavirus, following a court mandate ordering the state to release a proposal for universal […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led […]
For the nine months after the bill was signed, law enforcement officials, community leaders, and Republicans all warned New York state Democratic legislators that the bail reform policies they had inserted into the state’s budget […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six N.C. officers were added to the National Peace Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, including four prison staff members murdered by inmates in 2017. Those North Carolinians honored are part […]
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