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A type of government agency, found in many jurisdictions, responsible for managing prisons and parole/probation services
has not uniformly refused to turn over inmates to , but the reality is nuanced: says it notifies ICE and transfers people after they serve required custodial portions of sentences, while hundreds of c...
Minnesota releases convicted people for a mix of statutory, procedural, and policy reasons: established sentencing and pretrial rules that limit detention without cause, expanding record relief and cl...
are administrative requests from asking state or local jails to hold an individual for a short period so ICE can assume custody; under federal law ICE has authority to arrest and detain people for imm...
creates multiple legal limits on cooperation with federal immigration agencies: state and city statutes and guidance restrict enforcement of civil immigration warrants and honor of , while narrow exce...
There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that released sex offenders “for fear of ”; available sources describe , civil-commitment and notification processes in Minnesota, and recent federal arr...
rs are incarcerated at dramatically higher rates than white Mainers: state and national analyses identify Maine among states where Black residents are imprisoned at roughly nine times (or more) the ra...
Cody Brown was in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Stephanie Bowling, following a June 2018 altercation; juries in multiple reports found that his actions caused Bowling’s fatal head injur...
’s state prisons consistently notify and transfer people to and — by recent accounts — complied with all monitored detainer/transfer requests to the during the period studied, while display a patchwor...
The claim that “ passed House Bill 1119 which allows for lethal gas chambers and s” is not supported by the available reporting: was introduced to add firing squads and as execution options but was am...
has conducted routine voter-list maintenance since the launch of its statewide voter registration database and continues practices that can result in registration cancellations—most notably sending no...
Restoring firearm rights in Washington after 30+-year-old felony drug convictions is , hinging on the specific conviction, statutory eligibility, and whether relief is sought under state or federal la...
Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost is the only provided source that states an average stay for detainees at the Florida Alligator Alcatraz facility — he said , with some detainees held nearly a week ...