Prison News | New Hampshire

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• Suicides in Prison
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Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Lawsuit: Sex offenders singled out: Inmates say they're targets in jail
  
  both claim in separate lawsuits that they've been targeted for abuse by inmates and officers... [ more ]
  Concord Monitor , Tuesday, May 29, 2007
  
  
• Documents: Suspect planned jail escape Inmate charged with first-degree murder
  
  defense filing said the inmate was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood... [ more ]
  Concord Monitor , Thursday, April 26, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

• Sentenced to prison without a crime: mental health patients locked up in New Hampshire
  
  Douglas Butler was confused. He thought his son, Andrew Butler, had been transferred to another, more secure psychiatric hospital. But when he drove to the address of the secure psychiatric unit on the outskirts of New Hampshire’s capital of Concord, he couldn’t see anything that resembled a hospital.... [ more ]
  The Guardian, Friday, March 1, 2019
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Ex-teacher indicted on drug charges in NH
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire elementary school teacher has been indicted on charges that she shipped drugs to state prison to her one-time student-turned-boyfriend.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, November 26, 2013
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Child/parent inmate art on display in N.H.
  
  CONCORD (AP) — Artwork by New Hampshire Department of Corrections inmates and their children will be on display at the Kimball Jenkins Estate in Concord next month.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Saturday, March 29, 2014
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

Suicides in Prison

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• NH county corrections officer's burglary record sparks statewide debate about criteria
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — On the surface, Cheshire County Corrections Officer Thomas Schoolcraft’s bid for a pardon for burglaries he committed as a teen seems like an isolated request by a convicted felon who wants to further his law enforcement career.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Saturday, August 24, 2013