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A manhunt continues for three inmates who escaped from a Malmesbury prison on Friday.Awaiting trial prisoners escaped after overpowering officials during an exercise period.The prison is currently under lockdown to ensure stability.A manhunt is still ongoing for three inmates who escaped from the Malmesbury Correctional Centre on Friday.Sixty-eight awaiting trial prisoners escaped from the prison…

Prison officials are planning to bus as many as 150 incarcerated people out of coronavirus-ridden San Quentin State Prison to a Bakersfield-area institution as early as Monday, sources said, in a move critics and a lawmaker said is reminiscent of the botched transfer that triggered San Quentin’s outbreak in the first place. A spokesperson for…

The Department of Correctional Services recorded 654 positive Covid-19 cases on Tuesday evening, an increase of 49 since Monday morning.This included 199 officials and 455 inmates, with recoveries standing at 123, the department said in a statement on Tuesday."Results of inmates who were tested at SADA [prison] in the Eastern Cape recorded an increase of…

The number of Covid-19 cases at prisons in the Western Cape has increased, the Department of Correctional Services said on Saturday."New Covid-19 cases in the Western Cape have increased after three officials tested positive for the virus. This brings the number of cases to 149 countrywide," department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo added.Thus far, the Eastern Cape…

By WAFB Staff | April 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 5:38 PM AVOYELLES PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The warden of a Louisiana state prison has died of the novel coronavirus, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) confirms. Sandy McCain, warden of Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Avoyelles Parish, died…