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The federal government has housed condemned inmates since 1999 at a high - security institution in Terre Haute, a town of some 60,000 people in western Indiana.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

At the beginning of this month, the White House announced that President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

A former lieutenant at Brooklyn's federal jail was convicted of sexually assaulting five female inmates, bringing a close to a yearlong prosecution that involved two other guards at the jail and exposed a pattern of abuse at the facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center.

A former guard at a federal detention center is facing a sentence of life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing female inmates.

Howe today is listed as an inmate at a federal detention center in Manhattan, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons wfederal detention center in Manhattan, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons wFederal Bureau of Prisons website.

A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.

Weeks after a federal report chronicled the assaults of teenage inmates by guards at Rikers Island, Florence Finkle, the commissioner overseeing investigations at the jail, resigned.

Just a few weeks later, the 7 - foot -1-inch tall Nigerian was an inmate at the Gregg County Jail awaiting his turn in a federal courtroom.

Federal prosecutors plan to sue New York City over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex.

Juveniles will no longer be housed at a Wisconsin youth prison that's been under federal investigation and the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging inmate abuse, Gov. Scott Walker announced on Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday morning Howe was in custody and a search of the federal inmate database shows that Howe is at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

The populations housed at the ECHC and ECCF include: non-arraigned, non-sentenced, sentenced and federal inmates.

When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.

Based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman, the show follows the lives of inmates at a women's federal prison.

There are several tailwinds that could propel private prisons to new heights: private correctional facilities house only a fraction of all inmates in the United States and the world, state and federal governments are more willing than ever to outsource prison management to a private company, and the number of incarcerated people continues to grow at a rate faster than the general population.

The Dallas Observer reports (via Consumerist), that Gary Cole, an inmate at a high - security prison in Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit in Texas this week alleging that Taco Bell stole his idea for the Doritos tacos.

At any one time, he says, there about 400 inmates in segregation in federal prisons in Canada, including youth (under the age of 21) and the mentally ill.

He also worked for the Correctional Law Project, providing representation to inmates of federal penitentiaries at their internal tribunals, and also with a wills and estates litigator in Kingston to help prepare for two trials.

D.C. Circuit allows federal death row inmate to intervene in lawsuit challenging the federal government's method of carrying out lethal injections and its failure to disclose its execution procedures: You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

In November of last year, the Federal Court was faced with a statement of claim from a group of inmates and made the following comments before ordering them to seek legal counsel (at paragraph 7):