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Inside a prison healthcare company's ownership shell game
Experts say YesCare's corporate structure was highly unusual and may have been designed to divert p…
Dakin Campbell,Nicole Einbind…
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Video shows the moment a man shone a laser pointer at an aircraft, risking 'catastrophic consequences,' and leading to a prison sentence
A police officer said Andrew Wilson "recklessly endangered the lives of hundreds of innocent people…
Pete Syme
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Lottery fever strikes as combined Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots hit $1.9 billion
The two jackpots are up to almost $2 billion. Powerball's next draw is on Monday, while players for…
Polly Thompson
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A man could face 5 years in prison for pointing a laser at a Delta Air Lines flight
A 29-year-old man could face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after being accused of aiming…
Pete Syme
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Navalny told his lawyer he thought he was being poisoned in prison months before his sudden death
Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's political nemesis, suspected he was being poisoned before he died …
Alia Shoaib
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Inmates at Rikers Island claim the poor conditions at the prison fail to meet 'mandatory, minimum standards for a human being'
In one of the voicemails, inmate Ervin Bowins said the current conditions do not meet the "mandator…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Florida prisons may violate policy by locking people in unsanitary shower stalls for hours on end
Prisoners say the stalls are often filthy, with feces, urine, black mold, and mice; one man said he…
Nicole Einbinder
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Virginia uses attack dogs in prisons more than any other state. Now lawmakers want to crack down.
Lawmakers are taking action after a Business Insider investigation found Virginia prisons had deplo…
Hannah Beckler
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Inmates across Alabama's notoriously macabre prisons are on strike: 'I'm just a slave'
Thousands of Alabama inmates are participating in a labor strike to draw attention to the cruel con…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
The US may be the only nation where dogs are set on men inside their cells. The attacks have left m…
Hannah Beckler
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The UAW strike at Ford, GM, and Stellantis could change the entire automotive industry forever
The UAW's lofty demands could change the face of auto labor and the way Ford, GM, and Stellantis ma…
Nora Naughton,Alexa St. John
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An Indiana cop whose dad was the police chief receives 10-year prison sentence for beating up suspects
Former police officer Chase Winkle punched, slapped, and kicked arrestees. His father was the chief…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Alexei Navalny says he's going on a hunger strike while detained in a Russian prison
Navalny is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in Russia for missing parole hea…
Kelly McLaughlin,Yelena Dzhan…
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A Saudi woman was given 30 years in prison for criticizing the Neom megacity project on Twitter
Saudi Arabia has sought to brutally repress opposition to its trillion dollar futuristic megacity p…
Tom Porter
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Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company. Then they deployed the Texas Two-Step.
Corizon Health, facing mounting debt, executed a controversial bankruptcy maneuver. Hundreds of pri…
Nicole Einbinder,Dakin Campbe…
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A majority of Americans in a new poll back the UAW's unprecedented auto strike as GOP union support grows
Americans' support for unions has swelled over the past decade. It's a sign of a changing status qu…
Nora Naughton,Juliana Kaplan
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A mediator who worked on a 2011 Israeli prisoner exchange says Hamas' hostage-taking is 'unprecedented': 'What do they even do with them now that they have them?'
Gershon Baskin, who helped secure the 2011 release of an Israeli soldier, called Hamas' hostage-tak…
Thibault Spirlet
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Capitol rioter accused of attacking a photographer and pulling a stun gun on cops strikes plea deal that could land him in prison for nearly 4 years
Alan Byerly's lawyers and prosecutors agreed to a sentencing range after he pleaded guilty to two c…
Jake Epstein
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Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov released a video of his 15-year-old son beating up a prisoner, saying he's 'proud' of him for showing 'honor' and 'dignity'
The prisoner, 19-year-old NIkita Zhuravel, was accused of burning the Quran outside a mosque in Vol…
Matthew Loh
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5 states to vote on banning slavery that is still legal in some US prisons
Voters in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, and Vermont will be voting to ban slavery in priso…