
The Pentagon is scheduled to release its list of alternative facilities for holding former Guantánamo Bay prisoners after President Obama closes the facility, over the objections of Congress and a hefty majority of the American people.
by John Hayward11 Nov 2015, 6:50 AM PST0

A transgendered person with a male passport and genitalia, but “identifying” as a woman, has lost an appeal to be housed in a female prison. As expected, the ruling revealed he had a long, violent criminal history, which could make
by Liam Deacon30 Oct 2015, 10:19 AM PST0

On Monday a civilian drone was seized after it crash landed inside Oklahoma State Penitentiary due to operator error. The drone’s operator hit the razorwire and lost control of the vehicle, which crashed in the McAlester Texas prison where it was confiscated by prison staff.
by Will Ross27 Oct 2015, 11:49 AM PST0

In a controversial vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to “Ensuring Just, Reasonable, & Fair Rates for Inmate Calling” and would place a cap on the amount of money that communications companies charge convicts to make phone calls in jails and prisons across the country.
by Jerome Hudson22 Oct 2015, 6:10 PM PST0

California will soon provide taxpayer-funded genital altering “sex change” surgery for prison inmates, with a new policy coming out this week that includes standards to approve the estimated $100,000 procedure.
by Michelle Moons22 Oct 2015, 1:19 PM PST0

Law enforcement organizations across the country strongly oppose Republican efforts to empower Democrats to release thousands of convicts back onto the streets amid a nation-wide crime surge by passing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015.
by Katie McHugh19 Oct 2015, 7:06 PM PST0

On September 5, the California Senate passed a bill banning residents from flying drones over prisons or jails in the state. Those caught doing so would face misdemeanor charges.
by AWR Hawkins6 Sep 2015, 11:43 AM PST0

Experts are advising that imprisoned Islamic extremists should have their own segregated prison wings to prevent the radicalisation of more moderate inmates among Britain’s growing Muslim prisoner population. The Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism think tank, has suggested a trial of the “essential”
by Sarkis Zeronian6 Sep 2015, 4:24 AM PST0

On Saturday, San Quentin State Prison was closed to visitors and its water supplies were limited to cooking and inmate toilets after an inmate was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease.
by William Bigelow30 Aug 2015, 3:34 PM PST0

(AFP) Nine people died, one of them decapitated, in a prison mutiny in Brazil which ended on Monday with the release of 70 hostages, police said.
by AFP26 May 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

Things are going so well in Barack Obama’s big foreign-policy “success,” Libya, that people are literally dying to get out. Vice News recently posted a 27-minute documentary video on the hideous conditions in Libya’s “migrant prisons”—internment camps where refugees are left to rot after their attempts to flee the country across the Mediterranean fail.
by John Hayward24 Mar 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry has joined the list of prominent conservatives who have endorsed the Statement of Principles of the Right on Crime campaign. The announcement was made on Wednesday. Right on Crime is a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) in partnership with the American Conservative Union Foundation and Justice Fellowship and seeks to promote criminal justice reforms from a conservative perspective.
by Sarah Rumpf12 Mar 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

A controversial referendum that reduced prison sentences for several categories of minor criminal offense is being blamed for a sharp rise in crime in parts of California, according to Seattle-based Fox News correspondent Dan Springer.
by Joel B. Pollak11 Feb 2015, 5:51 AM PST0

Last week, we witnessed multiple atrocities carried out by French home-grown jihadis. The Kouachi brothers purportedly made clear in communications during their warehouse siege that they wished to be “martyred.” There was speculation among commenters here on Breitbart and elsewhere
by Danny Lee Weston15 Jan 2015, 4:59 AM PST0