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Torres was sentenced to a year in prison and released after five days due to 10 months already served. [95] 31 July 2013: Jason Blackwelder 10 June 2014: Conroe Police Department (Texas) Blackwelder shot Russell Rios, who had shoplifted two iPod cases, in the back of the head while chasing after him. He was found guilty of second-degree ...
The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.
Fire broke out Friday morning at a state prison in Texas, forcing more than 650 inmates to evacuate but injuring no one, an official said. The fire, the cause of which isn't yet known, appeared to ...
Leader of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago; sentenced to life in state prison in 1973 for murder; convicted in 1997 of drug conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison. [69] [70] Jeff Fort: 92298-024 Archived February 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
The force used in Marine Anthony Johnson Jr.’s death came under scrutiny following the 2020 death of George Floyd. Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the ...
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [ 20 ] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.