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The Standing Rock Sioux's tribal council has voted to make tribal land available for those protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, though an organizer from another tribe says many likely won't move. Standing Rock chairman Dave Archambault II says the tribal council voted 8-5 Tuesday to use reservation land so that permanent structures can be built to protect protesters from winter weather.
A life on death row is unimaginable for most people - but for almost 3,000 prisoners in the United States, it is stark reality. Gary Tyler used to be one such prisoner, unjustly convicted and sentenced to death at age 16 for a crime he did not commit.
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison just cast their votes for president, and for Donald Trump, it's a good thing those votes won't count. Trump was trounced by Hillary Clinton in a mock election staged by the prison's inmate-run newspaper, San Quentin News.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Salazar, as Clinton transition chief, will usher in diversity, not walls Clinton, Sanders to campaign together in New Hampshire Trump enters new debate frontier MORE 's transition team to help her prepare for an orderly transition should she be elected our nation's 45th President. It is clear from Salazar's accomplishments that he will be indispensable to help move forward seamlessly with implementing Clinton's progressive -- and inclusive - agenda for the country.
A House committee takes up a bill today, sparked by outrage over relaxed restrictions on Cuba, that would require the White House to tell Congress what it is doing to extradite killers who have fled the United States. The bill is named in honor of Walter Patterson and Werner Foerster, victims of killers who escaped New Jersey prisons and are believed to be living in Portugal and Cuba.
A federal appeals court has concluded that a redistricting plan in a Rhode Island city that puts all the inmates at the state prison into one city ward is politically fair. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday cited an April decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in ruling that Cranston's district lines were constitutional.
Though the Department of Justice has announced it will no longer house federal inmates in private prisons, federal prisoners in Montana are staying in their privately-owned beds. The Montana Standard reports that 95 of the 550 beds at Crossroads Correctional Center, a privately run mixed-security state prison in Shelby, are held for federal prisoners.
John Dickerson, host of CBS's "Face the Nation," on Sunday referred to "11 million undocumented workers," yet thousands of illegal aliens are imprisoned. It is unknown exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the United States and most estimate between 11 million to 12 million.
The Justice Department says it's phasing out its relationships w... . FILE - In this June 28, 2016 file photo, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington.
The doorway to death row in the North Segregation Unit at San Quentin State Prison is notable for a rounded metal jail door and a sign that clearly marks its purpose. The doorway to death row in the North Segregation Unit at San Quentin State Prison is notable for a rounded metal jail door and a sign that clearly marks its purpose.
Georgia has executed a man who beat a friend to death during an argument after a night of partying more than three decades ago. John Wayne Conner was executed at 12:29 a.m. Friday at the state prison in Jackson by an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
Along with VCNV companions, I'm part of a 150 mile walk from Chicago to Thomson, IL , a small town in Northwest IL where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is setting up an Administrative Maximum prison, also known as a Supermax. Prison laborers from U.S. minimum security prisons now labor to turn what once was an Illinois state prison into a federal supermax detention facility with 1900 cells that will confine prisoners for 23 hours of every day.
The first time John Lewis traveled to Mississippi in 1961, he was arrested and jailed with other Freedom Riders, black and white, who challenged segregation in a bus station. Lewis, who is African-American, remembers going into a restroom labeled for white men only.