DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

A transgender inmate who impregnated two women while incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to a new facility, according to the Department of Corrections. He said the DOC moved Minor to the vulnerable unit at the facility and that she is currently the only woman prisoner on the site. According to the corrections department, Minor is serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter and is eligible for parole in 2037. It also cast a spotlight on New Jersey’s transgender prisoner policy established following a settlement agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Jersey in June 2021. The policy stipulated that the DOC house transgender prisoners according to their gender identity.

A Georgia man who was recently sentenced to death in the killings of two corrections officers during an escape attempt five years ago has died in prison of an apparent suicide, corrections officials said. Prison guards found Ricky Dubose unresponsive in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson around 4:45 p.m. Sunday, according to a Department of Corrections news release. The coroner at the prison declared Dubose dead at 5:56 p.m.

California authorities finally released the May 29 mugshot of Paul Pelosi, who was accused of driving under the influence in the middle of the night.

The law forces inmates to choose between lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad, but if the drugs aren’t available for an injection, the inmate must pick one of the two other options.

Two inmates at New Jersey’s only women’s prison are pregnant after consensual sex with a transgender inmate, reports say.

Four other people, including two inmates at the facility, have also been charged for their alleged roles in the operation.

South Carolina is poised to become just the second state in the country to carry out an execution via firing squad in the past 40 years, according to multiple reports. Once that is in place, South Carolina has 35 inmates on death row, according to reports, and they can began executing them via firing squad. The firing squad was put in place as an alternative to the electric chair. South Carolina reportedly spent nearly $54,000 renovating the area in which it carries out the executions in the state’s capital, Columbia, so that it would accommodate the firing squad. Utah is the only other state in the country to carry out such an execution across the past 40 years.

South Carolina's governor signed a law last year forcing death row inmates to choose the manner of their execution: either by firing squad or electric chair if lethal injection is not possible.

A pair of former Tulane University students disappointed by recycling options in New Orleans have turned massive amounts of glass bottles into sand to fill sandbags for New Orleans' hurricane season.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers, is expected to ask for a release from jail tomorrow. He’s charged with seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge so far stemming from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane joined CBS News’ Tanya Rivero and Jericka Duncan with his latest reporting.

Justin M. Toye, 36, was arrested Sunday after an investigation by the Office of Internal Affairs and the Rhode Island State Police.

The inmates no longer needed the injunctions because the state Supreme Court issued stays of execution.

American filmmaker Laura Poitras has once again turned her camera on the watchmen in an exhibition opening Friday in Berlin

The state Supreme Court issued its decision just two days before death row inmate Brad Sigmon was scheduled to die.

The oak chair purchased by the state nearly 100 years ago was to be used to execute an inmate Friday. It’s the same chair that killed a 14-year-old boy in 1944, along with 247 others.

The state Supreme Court issued its order two days before Brad Sigmon was scheduled to be put to death.

A judge has been asked to allow drugs including the opioid fentanyl, the sedative ketamine and potassium chloride to stop the heart of convicted mass killer Zane Michael Floyd.

Inmates at an Oklahoma prison began receiving special computer tablets this week, as part of a Department of Corrections plan to provide secure tablets to everyone incarcerated in state prisons. The devices, specially designed by prisons communications company Securus Technologies, will include free content such as prison policies, access to a law library, some books and educational and self-help materials. Inmates can also pay to receive music, movies, games and television programs, as well as to send and receive messages, including video messages, to and from their families.

Under the current law, inmates must choose whether to be put death by electric chair or firing squad.

Guards at a California prison reportedly didn’t notice that an inmate had reportedly tortured and decapitated his cellmate in 2019, having reported that both men were alive after making their overnight rounds.

The inmates questioned the legality of the new law, which would require them to choose between execution by electric chair or firing squad.

South Carolina will need to create a new policy for how an execution by firing squad would be carried out, a Department of Corrections spokesperson said.

The judge found that Chauvin abused a position of trust, treated George Floyd with "particular cruelty," committed the crime as part of a group, and the offense occurred in front of children.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed a lawsuit Friday demanding state corrections officials relax COVID-19 protocols and allow ministers to visit inmates.

Lawyer for Ryan Samsel says he was "viciously and savagely" beaten while zip-tied but the head of the district's jail system says it didn't happen.

Just a day earlier, an independent panel that oversees the study had accused AstraZeneca of cherry-picking data to tout the protection offered by its vaccine. The panel, in a harsh letter to the company and to U.S. health leaders, said the company had left out some COVID-19 cases that occurred in the study, a move that could erode trust in the science.

Department of Corrections spokesman John Beard said inmates who have tested positive have been medically isolated and those exposed have been quarantined “as space allows.” Transfers to and from the prison have been temporarily suspended.

Soon after White’s mistaken release, Heuerman said his department neglected to place a detainer on White with the Department of Corrections for his return to Champaign County once he completed a sentence for illegal gun possession. However, on Thursday, the sheriff said a further internal review of their processes showed the pending murder charge had been relayed to the Department of Corrections.

click to enlarge ShutterstockThe coronavirus has impacted every human being on earth, even domestic pets in some ways. There was the Ebola virus, but it didnt cross the entire earth and enter even the prisons. Someone brought it into the prison at Newberry Correction 1, then Lakeland 2, then Kinross 3, and Parnell 4. It went from 7 to 14, to 80, then to 122, and as of this writing, 238 inmates and 50 correction officers. There are tables with paper towels and sanitizer.The Department of Corrections has instructed the Michigan State Industries (the prisoner workforce) to make face masks.