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WikiLeaks Suspect to Be Housed With Other Inmates

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- WikiLeaks suspect Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has passed the lengthy the physical and psychiatric evaluation given to new inmates at the Kansas military prison where he was recently moved and will begin living with other medium-security inmates who are also awaiting trial, the prison commander said...

Army Opens Prison of Suspected WikiLeaks Private for Media Review

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Army officials are opening the doors to the military prison in Kansas where they are holding an Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website. Pfc. Bradley Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional...

Teen Charged With Murdering Tourists Had Been Screened for Risk Days Earlier

On April 16, a pair of British tourists were shot down in Newtown, Fla. The next day, 16-year-old Shawn Tyson was arrested on murder charges. It was his second arrest this month. Less than two weeks earlier, he had been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. During both arrests, Tyson was screened by the...

WikiLeaks Suspect Transferred to Fort Leavenworth

WASHINGTON -- The Army private suspected of giving troves of classified information to the WikiLeaks website has arrived at a detention facility in Kansas where he will await the government's decision on whether to put him on trial. Pfc. Bradley Manning was transferred to the facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., from a...

South Carolina Bill Targets Prisoners on Facebook

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Islam Dunn updates his Facebook page with a phone like so many other 19-year-olds, only he must hide the device so the prison guards don't notice. The proliferation of cell phones smuggled into prisons has some inmates routinely updating their status from the inside, and South Carolina is considering...

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06/03/12 City Room: Jail Guard's Tale of His Passage to Inmate Source: The New York Times - New York NY Gary Heyward stood on 125th Street in Harlem, not far from the Apollo Theater, wearing a jumpsuit that was half blue and half orange.
06/03/12 Call to ban solitary confinement at Risdon Source: Examiner A PRISONER advocate has called for solitary confinement to be banned in Tasmania's maximum security prison after three prisoners were isolated for what he described as "trivial and petty" indiscretions in the last month.
06/03/12 Contractors wary of hiring ex-prisoners for rebuild Source: The Press Some contractors working on Christchurch's earthquake rebuild say they would not "put their neck on the line" and employ former prisoners.
06/03/12 Reunion Cult Leader Jailed Source: Mauritius The leader of a cult on the French Indian Ocean island of RÃ©union has been jailed for 13 years for making a dramatic prison escape in a helicopter that had been hijacked by three of his followers.
06/03/12 Prison sentence for growing pot near schools Source: The Bulletin - Bend OR SILVERTON, Ore. A man living in Silverton have been given prison sentences for growing marijuana near two schools.