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Despite the decline in the number of people being incarcerated, private prison companies are making money by providing services to inmates with almost no government oversight. Axios reporter Stef Kight joined CBSN AM to discuss when the trend began and how lawmakers are looking to correct the system.
The bureau, which is home to over 127,000 federal offenders, took precautions in March to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
"There is seemingly nothing that Daniel McMahon will not do in the name of white supremacy," one victim wrote.
The final night of the Republican National Convention will feature a powerful plea for criminal justice reform from someone who knows the system from the inside. 65-year-old Alice Marie Johnson spent 22 years in prison, after receiving a live sentence for a first time, nonviolent drug and money laundering conviction. Two years ago, President Trump granted her clemency after Kim Kardashian West brought the case to him. Vladimir Duthiers spoke to Johnson about her long journey to freedom and her new fight.
Loughlin, 56, got prison time plus a $150,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and two years of supervised release.
Actress Lori Loughlin has been sentenced to two months in prison for her role in the nationwide college admissions scandal. Her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, got a five-month sentence after the couple accepted a plea deal. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joins CBSN with a look at how the case played out.
Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges under a plea deal that avoided a possible death sentence.
One of the president's closest former associates, Steve Bannon, is out on bond Friday after being arrested on fraud charges over an alleged scheme connected to the president's long-promised border wall. Paula Reid reports.
The threat forced the theater to evacuate and cancel the showing.
Rosanne Cash, eldest daughter of Johnny Cash, has had 11 number one country hits. Recently, she spoke to “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Anthony Mason, about her new album, "The River & the Thread,” which was in part inspired by her father’s childhood home.
Michael David Elliot broke out of a correctional facility in Ionia, Michigan Sunday. After a 150-mile long manhunt, he was finally captured in Indiana. CBS News correspondent Terrell Brown reports.
The state of Vermont has seen an almost 800 percent uptick in opiate use since the year 2000, in part because of the state's geography. Located in the middle of the northeast drug corridor, dealers unload some of their inventory while traveling from Philadelphia to Montreal. Gov. Peter Shumlin is pushing for harsher penalties for dealers and help for addicts. Michelle Miller reports.
Two members of the all-female punk rock band Pussy Riot were serving a two-year sentence for protesting inside a church against President Vladimir Putin. They were freed under a bill passed by the Russian Parliament last week. Jeff Glor reports.
More than four in 10 convicts return to jail within three years of their release, but a weightlifting program in Boston hopes to change that number. Jeff Pegues reports.
Two members of the female punk band Pussy Riot were freed from a Russian prison Monday under a new amnesty law. The women were jailed almost two years ago while protesting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Charlie D’Agata reports.
Ryan Ferguson and "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty join the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to discuss how Ferguson spent his time in prison, how they overturned his wrongful conviction, and what could be his next step as a free man.
Ryan Ferguson had been incarcerated for nearly a decade for a crime he did not commit. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
James Baker, who was chief of staff to former President Ronald Reagan, says Nelson Mandela "had an enduring and endearing presence of dignity that I don't think I've ever seen on any other person."
Following his release from a 27-year prison sentence, Nelson Mandela addressed a large crowd of his supporters at a rally in Cape Town, Feb. 11, 1990.
There aren't that many people of whom it can be said "he changed the world," but Nelson Mandela was one of them. Martha Teichner looks back at the life and legacy of the anti-apartheid fighter who passed away this week at the age of 95.
Mike Wallace’s trip to the “strangely tranquil” U.S. naval base known as Gitmo, 30 years before it housed accused 9/11 terrorists and al Qaeda fighters
When Christo Brand became a guard at Robben Island, he was told he'd be guarding the worst of the worst. But he came to know Nelson Mandela as a kindly gentleman and the prison peacemaker. Bill Whitaker reports.
As dignitaries and politicians from across the globe converge on South Africa to mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela, his family has put aside their differences in a show of solidarity. Debora Patta reports.
With hymns and eulogies, South Africans are remembering the life and legacy of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela with a day devoted to worship and reflection. Mark Phillips reports.
The case of two terror suspects who claim they were tortured in a secret CIA prison in Poland has reached Europe's Human Rights Court. The case involves a Saudi national accused in the deadly al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and a Palestinian man who has never been charged with a crime. CBS News' Tina Kraus reports.
President Trump said he will be speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday.
The suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk is under special watch in a Utah jail, days after he allegedly shot and killed the 31-year-old conservative activist.
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The device had been lit but "failed to function as designed," a Unified Fire Authority Investigations officer wrote in affidavits of probable cause.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on charges of aggravated murder, obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Unlike the Smithsonian, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights is privately funded, putting it beyond the immediate reach of Trump administration efforts to control what Americans learn about their history.
Rep. Michael McCaul, a foreign policy leader who had strongly supported Ukraine, warned Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "testing the resolve of NATO."
Desmond Holly and several school shooters in the past year were active on the same website, the ADL says.
Brian Kilmeade made the comment while talking about the stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina.