Tag: prisons
Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South
Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand...
Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg released from jail after serving perjury sentence
NEW YORK -- Retired Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg was released from New York City's Rikers Island jail on Friday after serving a...
As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields
Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in...