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• 6 notorious prisons offer ghostly thrills
Looking for ghostly thrills this Halloween? Head straight to prison. Old closed prisons are often crumbling, dank fortresses with histories of flying orbs, moving furniture, noises in the night and chilly bursts of air. They draw serious-minded ...
• Elderly man who shot ill wife in hospital dies
As one of the largest maximum-security juvenile prisons in the country, Pendleton is responsible for educating and rehabilitating teenage gang members, sex offenders and juveniles with mental health issues for the Indiana Department of Correction ...
• Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama
Now a pastor, Glasgow launched a voter registration drive inside the prisons in Alabama, where state law allows voting by felons convicted of lesser crimes such as possession of small amounts of drugs, battery or attempted burglary — even while ...
• Calif. told to find $250 million for prison health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to say whether ... Calif. told to find $250 million for prisons
• Animal detectors used to warn drivers
DURANGO, Colo. - Highway planners are experimenting with the same technology used by some prisons for perimeter security to prevent drivers from colliding with deer and elk. The Colorado Department of Transportation launched a new wildlife detection ...