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I-Team: Jail video shows Rikers staff ignore prisoner as he hung himself in plain sight
Video obtained by the NBC New York I-Team shows Rikers Island correction officers failing to intervene — for nearly eight minutes — as an inmate hangs himself in their plain view. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports. (Video produced by NBC’s Linda Gaudino.)
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NJ Gov. Murphy shuttered part of women's prison after multiple incidents of abuse and violence
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy has decided to shutter part of Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women in Union County. Two years ago, the governor decided to close the jail entirely after numerous incidents of abuse and violence which led to a dozen guards being charged. Some of the inmates have been moved while a new facility is in the...
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NJ governor closes part of state's only women's prison amid reports of misconduct
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday his administration has shuttered part of the state’s only women’s prison, partly fulfilling a promise made more than two years ago to close the facility amid reports of sexual abuse and misconduct there. The Democratic governor said people in minimum security have been moved to a newer satellite facility near the Edna...
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Missouri Man Who Spent Decades in Prison for a Murder Two Others Confessed Seeks Exoneration
A hearing begins Monday in a case that will decide if the conviction should be overturned for a Missouri man who has spent nearly three decades in prison
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Man Who Spent Nearly Four Decades in Prison for Murder Is Cleared by DNA, and Freed
A man who served 38 years in prison for the 1983 abduction and killing of a woman in Inglewood is a free man Friday, with authorities saying newly tested DNA evidence exonerated him of the crime and identified a different person as the culprit in the slaying.