Ecuador to Deport 1,500 Inmates amid Gang War
President Daniel Novoa says Ecuador will soon begin deporting 1,500 foreign prison inmates to ease prison overcrowding. announced on wednesday. The majority of the prisoners soon to be deported are Colombian nationals, with the remainder reportedly from Peru and Venezuela. Colombia and Peru border Ecuador, and Venezuela, which borders Colombia, is also nearby. Future deportations […]
California inmate’s death after prison assault being investigated as homicide
A man incarcerated at a Southern California prison was assaulted to death by two other inmates, guards said, and the case is being investigated as a homicide, state corrections officials said Monday. On Sunday, officers used pepper spray seven times to quell an attack on Enrique Saucedo in the recreation yard at Centinela State Prison […]
FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, sheriff looking for 4 escaped inmates | FOX 5 News
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says the escaped through a damaged window and cut a fence overnight in the oldest part of the … source
NE bill would add asphyxiation by nitrogen gas as form of execution for death row inmates
Nebraska lawmakers have passed a bill that would add nitrogen asphyxiation to the state's execution methods, even as Alabama officials wait for a judge's ruling to block plans to become the nation's first death penalty state. submitted. Nitrogen gas. Nebraska's only current method of execution is lethal injection. The bill introduced Thursday would add a […]