Georgia State

Alabama State

The office of Alabama’s attorney general has settled a federal lawsuit filed by death row inmate Alan Miller over the state’s plan for him to become the second known person in the nation to be executed using nitrogen gas.

Alabama settles lawsuit with death row inmate set to become second executed by nitrogen gas

The Georgia Department of Corrections is seeing its deadliest year ever, with 156 deaths, including at least 24 homicides, during the first six months of 2024. Mortality data obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows total deaths inside state correctional facilities from all causes have been rising since 2020. The number of such deaths in the first half of this year even exceeds the number of prisoner deaths during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deaths at record level in Georgia state prisons as crisis deepens

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Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Six men have been arrested after an inmate died at a prison in Leicestershire. Police were called to HMP Fosse Way, in Tigers Way, Glen Parva, on Tuesday, after a 31-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell. The man's death is currently being treated as unexplained and inquiries are...

Six arrested after inmate dies at prison

Florida State

Bartow, FL

A Florida death row inmate, convicted of a 1997 mass killing at a manufacturing facility, died on Thursday before an execution date could be set. Nelson Serrano, who had been diagnosed with a terminal condition, spent his final days confined to a wheelchair and suffering from severe health issues. Conviction...

Florida death row inmate dies before execution amid terminal illness

Hinds County, MS

Law & Crime

Mississippi lawyer Daniel Dale was arrested Thursday after sheriffs in Hinds County said he tried to smuggle drugs — including marijuana — cellphones, a digital scale, cigarettes, cigar wraps and more contraband into a local detention center in an alleged conspiracy with two detainees.
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Attorney looks soaking wet after he's arrested for smuggling drugs, cellphones into prison

Texas State

Houston, TX

The Mirror US

A Texas death row killer's last words were directed at his fellow inmates as he referred to himself by a bizarre nickname — "Bird" — when he addressed them. He also addressed those impacted by his crimes

Texas death row prisoner's final message to fellow inmates using bizarre 'nickname' before execution

The Independent

 Arthur Lee Burton was executed in Texas Wednesday for the murder of mother-of-three Nancy Adleman after apologizing to those he’d harmed with his horrific actions.“To all the people I have hurt and caused pain, I wish we didn’t have to be here at this moment, but I want you to know that I am sorry for putting y’all through this and my family,” he said. “I’m not better than anyone. I hope that I find peace and y’all can, too.”Burton was first convicted one year after the July 1997 murder, in which the 48-year-old mother, who had been jogging...

Texas death row inmate says ‘I’m sorry’ in last words as he’s executed for mother-of-three’s murder

CBS News

A Florida man convicted of killing a college freshman and raping the murder victim's older sister while the siblings camped in a national forest 30 years ago was executed Thursday.Loran Cole, 57, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the 1994 killing of the 18-year-old student. Cole also was serving two life sentences for rape.Cole did not have a last statement. "No sir," he said when asked if he had some final words.After the procedure began about 6 p.m. Cole briefly looked up at a witness in the front row. After...

Florida executes man convicted of 1994 killing of college student in national forest

Massachusetts State

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This Tiny Shih Tzu Who Lost His Owner Is Now Looking For New Family

Booneville, MS

Mississippi News Group

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. Judy Gale Dunlap, 58, of Booneville, has been indicted by the Prentiss County Grand Jury on charges of contributing to the delinquency or neglect of a child, according to the Prentiss County Sheriff's Department.

Booneville Woman Indicted for Child Neglect

South Carolina State

The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate set to be executed in South Carolina in three weeks wants the state Supreme Court to delay the execution so his lawyers can argue his co-defendant who testified against him lied about having no plea deal in exchange for his testimony. Attorneys for Freddie Owens also said in court papers filed late Friday that a juror saw a electronic stun device Owens had to wear in court to assure good behavior and a judge never talked about why he had to wear it. It’s part of a flurry of legal action as South Carolina tries to restart its death chamber after not putting an inmate to death in 13 years. At least six executions are looming. Also on Friday, the South Carolina’s Supreme Court promised it would wait at least five weeks between executions.

Inmate asks to delay execution, says co-defendant who blamed him for killing had secret deal

The prisons ombudsman has called for inmates to have free phone calls to stem rising rates of suicide in prisons.Adrian Usher, who was appointed as Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) last April, has demanded an overhaul of the prison telephone system after an inmate took their life every three and a half days in England and Wales last year.In an article published on the PPO website, he said standard practice currently sees inmates pay for calls by the minute, using money earned working in prison. They are among the worst-paid workers in the country, with inmates earning between £15 and...

Call for prison inmates to have free phone contracts to reduce suicides

Flagler County, FL

Fox News

A deputy in Flagler County, Florida, has resigned after witnesses say he fell asleep while guarding an inmate, allowing the inmate to escape custody.

Florida deputy was 'likely sleeping' when inmate escaped hospital: sheriff

CUMBERLAND COUNTY — Federal inmates are once again being held at the Cumberland County Jail after a two-year pause, but no one at the facility is excited about it. The jail lost its lucrative contract with the U.S. Marshals Service in 2022 because of staffing shortages and other services the federal government found lacking at the facility.

Correctional officers union files complaint after jail contracts with U.S. marshals to house federal inmates

The Alabama Supreme Court granted the state attorney general's request to authorize the execution of Carey Dale Grayson, one of four teenagers convicted in the 1994 killing of Vickie Deblieux

Alabama authorizes third nitrogen gas execution for inmate who tortured and killed hitchhiker

The Guardian

Legal action aims to force criminal justice department to air condition prisons, where 85,000 are at risk of heat illnesses

‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates

Forsyth County, GA

NBC News

CUMMING, Ga. — When Durwood Snead moved to Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1989, he was struck by the lack of diversity in the region, just 30 miles north of Atlanta. “It was a pretty much completely white county,” said Snead, who is white and was a pastor at the time.

A Georgia county that once expelled all Black residents now wants to be a model of love

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Georgia prisons chief tells state lawmakers drones are smuggling deadly contraband into prisons

The Georgia Department of Corrections continues to struggle with an onslaught of drones that are being used to deliver contraband, such as drugs, cell phones, and...

Georgia prisons chief tells state lawmakers drones are smuggling deadly contraband into prisons

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