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Official data do not support a single, precise national percentage of U.S. prisoners who are unauthorized (illegal) immigrants for 2024; federal reporting covers only portions of the system, and , mak...
Jeffrey Epstein and at least one close associate, French modeling agent Jean‑Luc Brunel, died in custody after Epstein’s 2019 arrest; Epstein’s death was officially ruled a suicide by the New York Cit...
The official by the concluded that ’s cause of death was hanging and the manner of death was suicide . That determination was accompanied by findings of neck trauma — including a broken hyoid and othe...
was arrested by the in and has been in federal custody continuously since that arrest, which means she has been incarcerated for roughly five and a half years as of January 28, 2026 (arrest in July 20...
Tina Peters was convicted in 2024 on multiple counts arising from allowing unauthorized access to Mesa County’s Dominion voting machines and related conduct; a state judge sentenced her to nine years ...
Official investigations and multiple medical authorities concluded Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10, 2019; New York City’s chief medical examiner ruled the cause...
Multiple reputable outlets report that federal immigration personnel deployed to since late 2025 and into January 2026 number in the low thousands, but counts vary by source and by which agencies are ...
vary widely in size and management, but reporting shows many operate like prisons—secured facilities with strict controls, frequent overcrowding, and persistent problems in health care and oversight—w...
Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019; official records and multiple investigations place the time he was discovered and subsequently pronounced dead in the early morning hours...
Jeffrey Epstein’s death generated multiple official and unofficial forensic materials that have been disclosed in pieces over time: the New York City Medical Examiner’s autopsy report was completed an...
Jeffrey Epstein’s pre-death records show while in custody: medical intake and prison records list conditions such as sleep apnea, hypertension, pre-diabetes, constipation and lower‑back pain, and he r...
President Trump has issued clemency to a large and growing number of federal offenders across two nonconsecutive presidencies: 237 acts of clemency (143 pardons, 94 commutations) during his first term...
Prison labor pay in the United States is extremely low and highly variable across jurisdictions: most ordinary facility jobs pay only , while industrial programs (UNICOR/Federal Prison Industries and ...
New York City Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s August 10, 2019 death a suicide by hanging after a four‑hour autopsy; the FBI later said it found no criminality in how he ...
Photographs of Jeffrey Epstein’s body exist in government investigative materials and media reporting, including an autopsy photo first publicized in 2024; however, many images remain withheld from pu...
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to in federal prison for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sexual abuse, a sentence imposed on June 28, 2022, and accompanied by a and . Federal records...
Tina Peters was convicted in Colorado last year and is serving a nine-year state prison sentence for crimes tied to allowing unauthorized access to Mesa County voting equipment; state prosecutors char...
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced in June 2022 to 240 months (20 years) in federal prison, plus five years of supervised release and a $750,000 fine . Recent reporting shows she is serving that 20‑year ...
Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan, a minimum‑security facility in Bryan, Texas, after a transfer from Florida; she is serving ...
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan indicted two Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) guards — Tova Noel and Michael Thomas — on charges of falsifying records and conspiracy to falsify records after Je...