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Detainer (from detain, Latin detinere); originally in British law, the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or personal property. A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal action against a person already lodged within the walls of a prison ; it was superseded by ...
Prisons are designed in several ways and there are 5 levels of regimes (which depends on the crime committed). Nieuw Vosseveld is a long stay prison with the heaviest regime for the most dangerous criminals. The prison is meant for criminals that have been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment and longer.
The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) operates state prisons in Indiana. It has its headquarters in Indianapolis . [ 1 ] As of 2019, the Indiana Department of Correction housed 27,140 adult Inmates, 388 juvenile Inmates, employed 5,937 State Employed Staff, and 1,718 Contracted Staff.
The history of the Indiana State Prison dates back to 1859 when the state legislature granted $50,000 for a new state prison. [3] It was named "State Prison West"; as opposed to "State Prison East" which was the first state prison located in Jeffersonville, Indiana (and later moved to nearby Clarksville). [8] The prison space at Jeffersonville ...
Joseph Corcoran, who was convicted of a quadruple homicide in 1997, was executed in Indiana early Wednesday, state prison officials announced, marking the state’s first execution in 15 years ...
Former correction officer at FCI Danbury in Connecticut; sentenced to prison in 2008 for having sex with an inmate; convicted in 2010 of trying to hire a hitman to kill the inmate, his ex-wife, his ex-wife's boyfriend, and a federal agent while incarcerated at USP Coleman in Florida. [33] [34] He was beaten to death by another inmate on August ...
Scruggs was detained for alleged possession of a controlled substance, according to prison records. Scruggs died from a seizure secondary to left frontal lobectomy due to a traumatic brain injury (from a motor vehicle accident a decade prior), according to the medical examiner. Jail or Agency: St. Louis County - Dept. of Justice Services; State ...
The state of Indiana resumed executions after 15 years. An inmate has not been executed in Indiana since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of ...