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Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows

August 28, 2025 7:43 am

News that the last detainee at “Alligator Alcatraz” could leave the facility within days came less than a week after a federal judge in Miami ordered the detention center to wind down operations.

Trump orders to reopen infamous Alcatraz prison for America's 'most ruthless and violent offenders'

May 05, 2025 10:46 am

While returning to the White House from Florida, Trump told reporters that reopening Alcatraz prison was “just an idea” he had and decided to act upon it.

New York fires 2,000 prison guards who refuse to return to work after wildcat strike

March 11, 2025 6:01 am

A new agreement between the state and the guards' union was reached over the weekend, contingent on 85% of staff returning by Monday morning.

US to pay nearly $116 million to settle lawsuits over rampant sexual abuse at California women's prison

December 18, 2024 10:41 am

Under settlements approved Tuesday, the Justice Department will pay an average of about $1.1 million to each of 103 women who sued the Bureau of Prisons over their treatment.

Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord released from US prison after serving 25 years

December 05, 2024 10:47 am

Living in Miami, Ochoa ran a distribution center for the cocaine cartel once headed by Pablo Escobar.

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Tougher security measures are causing upset at Guantanamo prison

April 03, 2024 5:50 pm

Through their lawyers, some of the 30 prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have complained that the military police officers who guard them recently resumed more stringent practices that had been abandoned over the years.

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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in federal prison

July 10, 2020 5:19 pm

According to Justice Department officals, Cohen was ordered into custody after he refused to accept the terms of home confinement, specifically that he submit to wearing an ankle monitor.

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Indian gets 3 years in jail in US prison for smuggling drugs

July 10, 2020 3:28 pm

The businessman from Nagpur who will be removed to India following his release from federal custody, was also ordered to forfeit USD 100,000. He has been detained for approximately 13 months following his arrest in the Czech Republic on June 3, 2019.

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Woman cleared of murder after 35 years in prison gets USD 3 million

August 29, 2019 8:30 am

Woods was released from prison in 2015 when new evidence linked the 1976 killing of a Reno college student to an Oregon inmate, Rodney Halbower, who has since has been convicted of two San Francisco Bay Area slayings that happened during the same period.