Prison News | Wyoming

Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Wyoming. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.

Contents

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

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Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

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Gangs in Prison

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Health & Medical Treatment

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Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Wyoming legislative committee considers bill to compensate inmates cleared by DNA testing
  
  LUSK, Wyo. (AP) - A Wyoming legislative committee is set to consider a proposal that would allow the state to compensate people who have served time in the state's prison system but who are later cleared by DNA evidence....[more]
  Associated Press, Thursday, July 18, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Legislative committee denies proposal from Wyoming Corrections Dept. to restrict records
  
  LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A legislative committee on Thursday rejected a proposal from the Wyoming Department of Corrections to change state law to specify that it could deny outright some public requests to inspect records dealing with investigations and security....[more]
  Associated Press, Thursday, November 7, 2013
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• 40-year-old State Pen inmate dies at Rawlins hospital following a lengthy illness
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Department of Corrections says a 40-year-old inmate has died following a lengthy illness. The agency says Michael Van Derrickson died Monday at Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawlins....[more]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, June 18, 2013
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

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Suicides in Prison

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Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

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