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Reporter Can’t See Executed Prisoner’s Drawings

By Christopher Zoukis In August 2015, the Nebraska Supreme Court denied a reporter’s attempt to obtain “graphic” drawings made by infamous executed child-killer John Joubert. Despite the efforts of state prison officials, however, the drawings were eventually obtained and published. The reporter, Mark Pettit, was an investigative journalist when Joubert abducted, tortured and killed two

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BOP Education Revamp in Doubt as Chief Sacked

By Christopher Zoukis In its waning days, Obama administration officials announced plans to expand education efforts in federal prisons and to provide more direction and oversight to the programs previously run separately at each facility. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced in late November 2016 that for the first time, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

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