By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In an effort to make transition from jail to freedom easier for convicts, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is urging governors to provide parolees with state identification cards. The announcement is part of the nation’s first National Reentry Week, which began Sunday, the Christian Science Monitor reports. “National Reentry Week highlights…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When federal officials began investigating claims of sexual abuse at an Alabama prison for women, they never imagined what they’d find inside. ABC News reports that the environment was so obscene and toxic that the nearly 900 woman incarcerated at Tutwiler Prison “universally fear for their safety,” the Justice Department found. How bad…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy U.S. Marshal Stephen Linder stepped way over the line, federal authorities say. A Chicago fed grand jury last week indicted him for civil rights violations for allegedly assaulting handcuffed prisoners. The Justice Department alleged that Linder, 36, choked a handcuffed man on July 8, 2010, and head-butted a handcuffed man…
