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A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in his disabled brother's starvation death was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison by a judge who said the defendant is “one step away from ...
Sterilization in the United States prison system dates back to the same origins as compulsory sterilization of developmentally disabled people. In the 1907 sterilization law passed by Indiana governor Frank J. Hanly, sterilization was made mandatory for "criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles in state custody". [ 4 ]
The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as “a possible victim of a crime,” the agency said in a document reviewed ...
Young offenders are “much more reactive,” said Bob Houston, the former director of the Nebraska corrections system. “They don’t think things through like adults.” Juvenile justice experts say that a better way to handle misbehaving young inmates is through a positive incentive program, where kids lose points if they act out.
Harold W. Meade was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who bludgeoned three mentally disabled individuals to death on August 12, 1970, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was later arrested in December of the same year, and pleaded guilty to the murders in 1972.
Sheila and Clay lied to the police, saying that Lacey had decided to live in those conditions for 12 years. Her autopsy ruled her death a homicide . Investigators stated they could not sleep or eat after investigating the killing due to the mental distress that the gruesome nature of the case caused them.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released from state prisons under legislation The post California may allow more ill, dying inmates to leave ...
Almost to a person, the prisoners spoke with insight about the people they used to be, expressed remorse for their crimes and described the programs they’d completed in prison to better themselves. They were like living remnants of an earlier, rehabilitative era in corrections, when Maryland lifers could go out on work release (ended in 1993 ...