Ex-OPSO grants manager pleads guilty to stealing federal funds for inmates

Court documents show Lawson, who worked in OPSO’s Grants Department from 2022 to 2024, created a fake company, Williams James ...

Captive workforce helps Ohio hunters send extra venison to food banks

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Twenty years ago, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction opened a plant at its prison in ...

US to complete transfer of Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq in coming days, official says

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. military expects to complete the transfer of up to 7,000 Islamic State detainees from ...
ABC4 Utah on MSN

‘We will save a cell and a bed for you’: Woman arrested, planned to mail drug-infused paper to Utah inmates

The Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) was able to stop a woman who planned to mail hundreds of sheets of "drug-infused ...

Scammers posing as officials asking for inmate bond money sweeping through Louisiana

Investigators warn that scammers can mask their location and alter their voices, making the calls appear legitimate.

Dutch court sentences Eritrean man to 20 years for cruel people smuggling

A Dutch court has convicted an Eritrean man of people smuggling and extortion, sentencing him to 20 years in prison.
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Prison officer caught taking money from inmate for contraband, charges say

LAPORTE — A 30-year-old officer at the Westville Correctional Facility found herself behind bars on allegations of accepting money from an inmate as part of a scheme to bring contraband into the ...