A corrections officer has been left dead following a nearly 20-hour stand-off and hostage crisis at a Delaware prison. The uprising was put down when state police seized
On Christmas Eve, Bolivian President Evo Morales pardoned 1,800 prisoners held in facilities across the country—part of his ongoing effort to curtail overcrowding in the Andean nation’s penal
A corrections officer has been left dead following a nearly 20-hour stand-off and hostage crisis at a Delaware prison. The uprising was put down when state police seized control of the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna on Wednesday morning. Inmates took four guards hostage to protest harsh conditions at the facility and to demand educational and other programs for prisoners. Some inmates
On Christmas Eve, Bolivian President Evo Morales pardoned 1,800 prisoners held in facilities across the country—part of his ongoing effort to curtail overcrowding in the Andean nation’s penal system. “The present decree’s aim is to give amnesty and total or partial pardons to people who have been deprived of their liberty,” Morales told a news conference in the central region of Cochabamba. Those pardoned include
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