The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America’s Worst Criminals
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
Salinas Valley State prison inmates face life after murder conviction
Jose Bueno was also convicted of assault by a life prisoner. He had previously been convicted of four strikes, including for murder. Jose Bueno faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, without the ...
Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison where president has offered to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants
El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...
Lassen County Times5d
North Kern State Prison investigating inmate death as a homicide
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the Jan. 29, death of an incarcerated ...
Couple driving ‘fake fire engine’ arrested trying to enter Palisades fire evacuation zone
Dustin and Jennifer Nehl claimed to be from Oregon’s ‘Roaring River Fire Department’ – then officials realized it didn’t exist ...
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Couple driving ‘fake fire engine’ arrested trying to enter Palisades fire evacuation zone
The group targeted a horticulture center at the University of Washington; a federally owned wild horse corral in Susanville, California ... served five years in prison after pleading guilty ...
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Among those fighting the Los Angeles wildfires: Prison inmates earning less than minimum wage
The army of firefighters battling the massive Southern California wildfires includes workers who could otherwise remain safely behind bars. As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by ...
KTLA19d
2 inmates from Southern California suspects in deadly prison yard attack
(KTLA) – Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), previously called New Folsom Prison, California Department of ...
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California resident known as Sinaloa cartel’s ‘gun and ammo supplier’ sentenced to prison
Some of these weapons and ammo were acquired in the United States, including from California, Arizona and Nevada, and then smuggled through the ports of entry in San Diego and Arizona to Mexico.
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Inmate firefighters who battle fires like the ones in LA could get a raise under this bill
Talks of increasing pay for incarcerated firefighters come two months after California voters rejected Proposition 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude or forced labor in prison ...