Attorney P.J. Blanchfield is the special prosecutor appointed to review a complaint filed last year about the state ...

When a federal judge announced last May that she would appoint an independent “remediation manager” to impose long-delayed ...

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At least a dozen others were hospitalized after violence erupted at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, officials said. The ...

Three inmates were killed, and at least 13 others were injured when fights broke out inside the Washington State Prison in ...

An eyewitness said the whole thing unfolded inside the prison’s visitation area, saying it happened in a matter of seconds.

A witness says inmates forced their way into the visitation room, sending visitors scrambling for safety. Meanwhile, a victim ...

The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...

“How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in America?,” Melvin Ray, one of the incarcerated ...

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