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Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from late-stage cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Convict-turned-influencer Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals her abusive past and time in prison via letters, phone transcripts and photos in her new e-book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” out Tuesday.The 32-year-old — who was released from a Missouri prison on Dec. 28 after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for her role in the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015 — details alleged abuse by her mother and grandfather but says she is remorseful for her crime.Blanchard also reveals a battle with opioid addiction while in prison — and claims she served a stint in solitary confinement after a super fan wanted to break her out.“I want you to know that I know now you were mentally and emotionally unstable when raising me,” Blanchard says in an open letter to her mother, written from Chillicothe Correctional Facility in Missouri.

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician known as the “Unabomber” who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.He was 81.Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said.A cause of death was not immediately known.Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge.He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.Years before the Sept.

continuing pandemic.About a year after the first COVID-19 cases emerged in Ontario jails, the update by the Prison Pandemic Partnership says the risk to inmates increases when there is less space.The partnership — which includes the Centre for Access to Information and Justice, the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association — estimates that more than 7,000 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to Canadian jails and prisons, including over 5,000 infections among prisoners.It says at the outset of the pandemic, from March through June last year, prison populations across the country fell in an effort to increase the space available and enable physical distancing.However, the study used

Michael Rafferty is now being accused by a relative of contributing to his own mother’s death from behind bars.When Rafferty was moved from a maximum-security facility to the medium-security La Macaza Institution in Quebec, Tori Stafford’s family was enraged.Her father Rodney’s anger at that development was well-documented.Just months earlier, he had found out Tori’s other killer, Terri-Lynne McClintic, had been moved to an Indigenous healing lodge in Saskatchewan, a move reversed by the federal government after widespread public outcry and protest.Despite the same outcry in Rafferty’s case, then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale held firm, insisting the institution was no less secure than other facilities and that it specializes in

COVID-19 testing operation was underway at a jail north of Montreal on Sunday following an outbreak that has infected more than 60 people.A spokeswoman for the regional health board for the Laurentians said that, as of Saturday, 45 inmates and 17 workers had tested positive at the St-Jérôme detention centre.Melanie Laroche said inmates in certain blocks of the provincially run facility were tested in the middle of last week, but officials decided on Friday to expand screening to the entire jail.She said testing of all the inmates wrapped up on Saturday, while employee testing is expected to be complete by Monday.“We are also continuing our investigation and our support in the implementation of health measures,” she wrote in an email.The

Lambton Public Health (LPH) has declared a coronavirus outbreak at Sarnia Jail.In a statement issued Saturday morning, LPH said they’re investigating after four staff members at the jail tested positive for COVID-19.

COVID-19 vaccine.On Wednesday, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) announced that as part of the first phase of the vaccine rollout plan, 600 older and medically vulnerable federal inmates will receive the shot, as recommended by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) says the pilot project will see prisons receiving 1,200 doses of the vaccine — enough to vaccinate 600 inmates with the required two doses. Federal inmates to start receiving coronavirus vaccinations this week, union says Premier Doug Ford voiced his displeasure with the vaccine plan during a COVID-19 briefing at Pearson Airport.“When I first heard it, I didn’t believe it,” Ford said.

Saskatchewan’s criminal justice system is speaking out after the province released a detailed report on a significant COVID-19 outbreak at the Regina Provincial Correctional Centre last week.“I know at the John Howard Society we’ve heard from a lot of families that are concerned about their people inside,” John Howard Society of Saskatchewan CEO Shawn Fraser says.On December 31, the province confirmed that 54 inmates, as well as three staff members, had active cases of COVID-19 in their daily case update.

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) is calling for the resignation of Saskatchewan’s Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Christine Tell.More than 100 inmates at Saskatoon Correctional Centre have tested positive for COVID-19.“Minister Tell has fumbled the ball in her role as minister responsible to Saskatchewan correctional facilities,” national vice-chief Kim Beaudin said on Dec.

 gathered Tuesday in the fresh air outside of the Saskatoon Correctional Centre as their loved ones sat inside, in a hotbed of COVID-19.They’re calling for the release of remanded inmates, who have no way to escape the coronavirus after an outbreak infected nearly a quarter of the jail’s population. Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety said it won’t release anyone early.

Tyler Magnus has lived in an overflow unit at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre for about three months, after he was remanded for breaching a court order following an alleged assault.Sixteen of the 20 men on his unit have tested positive for COVID-19, he said. Nearly 100 Saskatoon jail inmates and staff diagnosed with COVID-19 “They tell us to stay one moose-length apart, but you can’t even do that here,” Magnus said Monday in an interview over the phone.The 27-year-old is among a chorus of voices chastising the province for its handling of a coronavirus outbreak at the Saskatoon jail, which has put hundreds of lives at risk.“I’m depressed and I want answers,” Magnus said.As of 5 p.m.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health confirmed Friday that an inmate at the Calgary Remand Centre has tested positive for COVID-19.

Correctional Services Canada says 38 of the over 100 inmates at a federally-run prison in B.C. who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus have now recovered.

With the novel coronavirus outbreak at a federally-run B.C. prison continuing to worsen among inmates and corrections officers, the officers’ union says issues are still plaguing efforts to control the spread.

The conditions at B.C.’s Mission Institution — the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreak at a federal institution in the country — are far worse than the Correctional Service of Canada is saying, according to a B.C. lawyer who advocates for prisoners.

Joe Exotic is in talks to get a new radio show — that would be broadcast from behind bars, his husband claimed this week.

The union representing Canadian prison workers is calling for new protection measures at a B.C. federal prison in the grips of the country’s worst inmate COVID-19 outbreak.

"We don't want to get the virus either" Gary, an inmate at Clover Hill prison laughs, "we're working together (with the prison service and the prison officers) on this one alright" 

Harvey Weinstein had it all.