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Takeaways from AP's reporting on shuttered prisons, mass deportation push and no-bid contracts
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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative no-bid contracts.
When Trump, a Republican, took office, politically connected private-prison giants CoreCiv ... (full story)
A look at Ohio’s exotic animal laws
On the evening of Oct. 18, 2011, Muskingum County authorities began receiving calls from residents reporting sights of wild animals roaming their neighborhoods. The sheriff’s office would soon discover that a Zanesville homeowner freed about 50 exotic animals kept on his farm before he died by suicide. Authorities had to use l ... (full story)
Jail-time credit did not reduce time before offender could apply for early release
When an Ohio offender receives a mandatory prison term, jail-time credit cannot reduce the waiting period for the offender to apply for early judicial release, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled.
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court reversed a Tenth District Court of Appeals decision, which allowed Aarin Clinkscale to apply f ... (full story)
'Gas station heroin' is technically illegal and widely available. Here are the facts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health officials want you to think twice before buying one of those brightly colored little bottles often sold at gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops.
Sometimes called "gas station heroin," the products are usually marketed as energy shots or cognitive supplements but actually conta ... (full story)
Aid groups weigh how much more they can help if FEMA reduces its disaster response
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Volunteers with the humanitarian nonprofit Team Rubicon are accustomed to filling in the gaps of disaster recovery — they chainsaw downed trees after wildfires, muck out flooded homes and rebuild roofs blown off by hurricanes.
But with concern and confusion over how the federal government will respond to disasters this sum ... (full story)