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Inmates at St. Louis Jail Set Fires, Break Out Windows
Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, caused flooding, broke out fourth-floor windows and tossed a stationary bike, chairs, mattresses and other things
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ACLU Files Records Request for Info on COVID-19 Case Spike in SD County Jails
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a public records request Monday seeking information regarding a surge of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County jail facilities, which it alleges are overcrowded and in need of an urgent inmate population reduction in order to stem the spread of the virus.
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26-Year-Old Inmate Found Hanging in Cell Died By Suicide
A 26-year-old inmate who was found hanging in his San Diego jail cell died by suicide, authorities reported Monday.
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Government Defends Imprisoning Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump
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Government Defends Imprisoning Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump.
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Former Deputy Pleads Not Guilty to Murder in Shooting of Mentally Ill Man Who Escaped Custody
A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.
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Former Deputy Facing Murder Charges in Deadly On-Duty Shooting
The former deputy resigned following the shooting after 18 months with the sheriff’s department.
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Deputy Resigns After Fatally Shooting Mentally Ill Man Near Downtown Jail
NBC 7 has learned the San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy that opened fire on a mentally ill man who escaped custody last week is no longer with the department. In a statement, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department told NBC 7 that Deputy Aaron Russell tendered his resignation on Wednesday, May 6, five days after the deadly…
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Man Killed By Deputy Was Shot 3 Times, Including in the Back
Nicholas Bils was running away when a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week, reports NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas.
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‘Why Is My Son Dead?': Mother of Man Shot by Sheriff's Deputy Says Investigators Are Keeping Her in the Dark
Three days after a deputy fatally shot a man running away from state park rangers outside the county jail downtown, police are keeping an unusually tight lid on the investigation.
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Mother of Man Fatally Shot by Sheriff's Deputy Has Questions
A mother wants answers after her son was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Friday. NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.
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SDSO Releases Hundreds of Inmates to Comply With State Order
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was expected to release approximately 400 inmates without bail by Thursday in order to comply with a state order to reduce prison populations in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
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Locked Up: No Masks, Sanitizer as Virus Spreads Behind Bars
Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.
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38 Positive for Coronavirus in NYC Jails, Including Rikers
Mayor Bill de Blasio says officials are reviewing 200 inmates that could be released from New York City’s Rikers Island due to the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes one day after officials revealed that more than three dozen inmates and employees had tested positive on Rikers Island. De Blasio said 23 inmates over 50 years old and at “low…
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Some San Diego Jail Inmates May Be Released Early
Some low-level, non-violent inmates facing trials and being held in San Diego County jails are being considered for release in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the county’s district attorney and sheriff announced Saturday. “In the wake of an unprecedented Superior Court closure, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and San Diego County Sheriff’s Department took several proactive...
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Get Out of Jail? Inmates Fearful of Virus Argue for Release
Coronavirus has become a “get out of jail” card for hundreds of low-level inmates across the country
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Texas Ice Cream Licker Gets Jail Time for Walmart Stunt
A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video last August of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson, 24, also was sentenced to an additional six-month jail term probated for two years and ordered…
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Virgin Islands Suit Alleges Decades-Long Abuse by Epstein
A lawsuit filed by prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls. At one point, the suit filed Wednesday alleges, Epstein and associates organized a search party to catch a 15-year-old victim trying to swim away,...
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California Jails Use Kinder Approach to Solitary Confinement
An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers’ usual response: Send an “extraction team” of corrections officers to burst into the cell and drag him out. But not in Contra Costa County, one of three in the state using a kinder, gentler approach in response to inmate lawsuits, a policy change…
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David Ortiz Upgraded to ‘Good' Condition: Wife
Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz has been upgraded to “good” condition as he continues to recover from his shooting last week in the Dominican Republic, according to his wife. “This morning, David’s condition was upgraded to ‘good’ by his doctors and he continues to make progress with his recovery in the Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital,” Tiffany...