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Federal Bureau of Prisons

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Type: Organization

Name: Federal Bureau of Prisons

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

For-Profit Prison Corporations Promise Investors ?A Growing Offender Population?

We have a longstanding partnership with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshal Service and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. … We continue to see meaningful opportunities for us to partner with all three of these federal ... [Published Disinformation - May 21 2013]

Entities: Federal Bureau of Prisons, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Marshal

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

TODAY IN HISTORYChandra Levy's remains found

The remains of former Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy are found on this day in 2002, over a year after the 24-year-old was last seen at a health club. The bone remains, discovered by a man walking through Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Park, ... [Published Punto! Central Luzon - May 21 2013]

Entities: Chandra Levy, Gary Condit, Rock/Creek

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Federal gov. reviewing solitary confinement

4:27 PMThe Federal Bureau of Prisons is reviewing the frequency and fairness of solitary confinement in all federal prisons. A rollback on "solitary" is already underway in some states. Randall Pinkston reports on the impact the rollback is having on ... [Published CBS News - May 19 2013]

Entities: Randall Pinkston, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Mississippi

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

ACTION to develop resource center for ex-offenders

By LINDA M. LINONISlinonis@vindy.comyoungstownRosetta Carter describes Home for Good as a “one-stop center” of resources for returning citizens, that is, formerly incarcerated individuals.Though services now exist, knowing where to look sometimes is daunting, ... [Published Vindy.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Action, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Baptist, Parole

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

USP-Marion Inmate Sentenced for Possessing a Weapon in Prison

Lamar Elmer Smith, 32, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, was sentenced to an additional prison term of 24 months today in United States District Court in Benton for possessing a weapon in that prison, announced Stephen R ... [Published 7thSpace - May 17 2013]

Entities: US Attorney, Benton (Illinois, United States), Federal Bureau of Prisons, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Assessment

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Bowman leaves Schuylkill as sentence nears end

HAMLIN - A former Lincoln County sheriff is no longer listed as an inmate at a federal prison in Pennsylvania, as he enters the final months of his 366-day sentence for offenses arising from the absentee ballot conspiracy of 2010. Jerry Bowman was sentenced ... [Published Lincoln Journal - May 16 2013]

Entities: Ramey (United States), Conspiracy, County Clerk, Democratic Primaries

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Kentucky Inmate Linked To Georgia Rapes

Investigators in Atlanta says DNA evidence links a Kentucky prison inmate to a series of Georgia rapes dating back to 1986.Police say they matched Daniel Wade's DNA to samples collected in five cases after it was placed in a national database. Wade, 62, ... [Published LEX 18 - May 16 2013]

Entities: Rape, Atlanta, Federal Bureau of Prisons

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 3 reports

Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer Placed In ‘Solitary’ After Tweeting From Prison

Convicted AT&T website hacker Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” also known as solitary confinement, after he was caught tweeting to a personal account from prison.While Auernheimer did not have direct access to ... [Published Inquisitr - May 14 2013]

Entities: AT&T Inc, Federal Bureau of Prisons, User Data, prison

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Fundraiser: Guantanamo North - Muslim Prisoners in America

Join the Muslim Legal Fund of America for our first annual fundraising gala in the San Francisco Bay Area. Speakers will discuss discrimination Muslims have faced in the US criminal justice system, MLFA's work to defend civil liberties in American courtrooms ... [Published Global Exchange - May 13 2013]

Entities: Guantanamo (Cuba), Fundraising, Ahmed Ghappour, Siraj Wahhaj, Charles Swift

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 4 reports

Nation's oldest prisoners may benefit from new outlook toward compassionate-release program

NEW YORK At age 88, John Rigas could be a poster child for inmates who might seek early release from prison because of the hazards of advanced aging.The former cable television mogul, convicted of fraud after his company collapsed into bankruptcy in 2002, ... [Published Washington Post - May 12 2013]

Entities: John Rigas, prison, Terminally Ill

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Compassionate release 'inconsistent'

The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ compassionate release program has been “poorly managed and implemented inconsistently,” an inspector general report found, leading to some inmates not being considered for the program and others (13 percent of approved requests) ... [Published Politico - May 01 2013]

Entities: The Sentencing Reform Act Of 1984, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Prisons

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 2 reports

Boston suspect transferred to prison hospital

The teenaged Boston bombing suspect has been moved to a prison medical facility, officials said Friday.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old, was sent to the Federal Medical Centre Devens near Boston, US Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade said in a brief ... [Published New Age Bangladesh - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Boston (Massachusetts, United States), prison, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Federal Bureau of Prisons

Quotes

"The administration cannot force feed its way out of this growing medical emergency. The only true solution is to resume transfers of prisoners and close Guantanamo." Uncharged detainees should be freed. They should have been long ago. They never should have been detained and tortured in the first place

Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture [Published Boston IMC - May 20 2013]

Russo, in a letter to the panel, observed that, among other things, Terry had "volunteered and participated in many Democratic Party political functions over the years."

Some interesting new ideas for choosing Ohio judges: Thomas Suddes [Published Cleveland Live - May 18 2013]

...indigenous prisoners' human and civil rights to worship in traditional Indian ways," said Gabriel Galanda, Chairman of the Huy Board of Advisors. "Those violations are also now happening in places like Montana, South Dakota and Texas. But those state discriminatory practices are not going unnoticed and they will not stand."

ACLU Joins Huy in Support of Indigenous Prisoners' Religious Freedoms [Published Indian Country Today Media Network - May 17 2013]

"Peter Dougherty is the sheriff now; I think he'll do a job. I don't think it created, any undo uproar of anything" says Bob Aitcheson, a Jefferson County resident

Jefferson County Residents Reacting to Shirley Sentence [Published NBC25 - May 15 2013]

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For-Profit Prison Corporations Promise Investor... [Published Disinformation - May 21 2013]
TODAY IN HISTORYChandra Levy's remains found [Published Punto! Central Luzon - May 21 2013]
Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture [Published Boston IMC - May 20 2013]
Federal gov. reviewing solitary confinement [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - May 19 2013]
Federal gov. reviewing solitary confinement [Published CBS News - May 19 2013]
Some interesting new ideas for choosing Ohio ju... [Published Cleveland Live - May 18 2013]
ACTION to develop resource center for ex-offenders [Published Vindy.com - May 18 2013]
ACLU Joins Huy in Support of Indigenous Prisone... [Published Indian Country Today Media Network - May 17 2013]
USP-Marion Inmate Sentenced for Possessing a We... [Published 7thSpace - May 17 2013]
Bowman leaves Schuylkill as sentence nears end [Published Lincoln Journal - May 16 2013]
Kentucky Inmate Linked To Georgia Rapes [Published LEX 18 - May 16 2013]
McHenry County Jail population stay well below ... [Published Northwest Herald - May 15 2013]
Sal DiMasi, family doing hard time [Published Boston Herald - May 15 2013]
Jefferson County Residents Reacting to Shirley ... [Published NBC25 - May 15 2013]
16 charged in Arkansas in connection with alleg... [Published Arkansas News Bureau - May 15 2013]
Man indicted in series of unsolved mid-80s Geor... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - May 15 2013]
Jailed Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Seek... [Published Democracy Now! - May 14 2013]
Suspected Mexican Drug Cartel Members Arrested ... [Published Fox 16 - May 14 2013]
Another insider trading prison sentence [Published Fierce Finance - May 14 2013]
Federal charges sought in slain stripper case [Published Houma Today - May 14 2013]
Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer Placed In ‘Solitary’ ... [Published Inquisitr - May 14 2013]
Benghazi scapegoat remains in prison for film [Published Washington Times - May 14 2013]
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Co... [Published TechCrunch - May 14 2013]
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Co... [Published TechCrunch Europe - May 14 2013]
Fundraiser: Guantanamo North - Muslim Prisoners... [Published Global Exchange - May 13 2013]
Guantanamo North: Muslim Prisoners in America [Published San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - May 13 2013]
Ex-Level Global Manager Sentenced to More Than ... [Published New York Times - May 13 2013]
Guantanamo Prison Documents Reveal 'Brutality o... [Published Common Dreams - May 13 2013]

Blogs

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Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Co... [Published TechCrunch - May 14 2013] Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” prison shorthand for solitary confinement for “investigative purposes.” Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access because of his ability to send Tweets ...
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Co... [Published TechCrunch Europe - May 14 2013] Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” prison shorthand for solitary confinement for “investigative purposes.” Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access because of his ability to send Tweets ...
Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives... [Published Think Progress - May 09 2013] A major U.S. private prison operator known for inmate abuse , violations , and disregard for the truth reported a 56-percent spike in profit in the first quarter of 2013, due in part to its new strategy for drastically reducing its taxes, ...
Feds Seek Additional Prisoner Releases [Published Breitbart Feed - May 05 2013] The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) “Compassionate Release Program” seeks to reduce prison overcrowding by releasing elderly and infirmed inmates. However, a recent congressional hearing revealed that five federal prisons are currently empty, including ...
AlaskaDispatch.com: Disgraced Senate Aide Moves... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - May 03 2013] Arne Fuglvog, a former fisheries advisor to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and commercial fisherman, who stepped down when he was charged with overfishing in Alaska waters in 2011, has reportedly found a new vocation -- lobbyist for commercial fishing companies. ...

Audio/Video

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Federal gov. reviewing solitary confinement [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - May 19 2013]

Press Releases

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