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Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable). The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us. Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year. On this occasion, the U.S. has...

. — Governor Kathy Hochul is issuing an executive order to prevent other state agencies from hiring former corrections officers who were fired for their involvement in the illegal strikes. On Monday, the Department of Corrections & Community Supervision (DOCCS) terminated about 2,000 officers who did not return to work after three weeks of striking. Public employees cannot strike under state law. Those that remained on the picket line were also doing so in direct defiance of a judge's restraining order, meaning there had been the possibility of law enforcement arresting officers on a criminal contempt charge.

A British serial killer notorious for his eating habits is refusing to chow down after guards at the prison holding him took away his TV and PlayStation. Robert “Hannibal the Cannibal” Maudsley, 71, is incensed by the loss of his gaming system, his brother, Paul, told The Sun. He said Maudsley has turned away meals and will not ingest anything until his prized electronics are returned. Also known as “The Brain Eater,” Maudsley lives alone in a glass cell inside Wakefield prison in West Yorkshire. He is also miffed guards took his non-fiction books and a music system he had...

CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”

War hero and triple-amputee Brian Kolfage sits in prison for daring to build a Southern Border wall when Congress would not. The SDNY targeted and imprisoned him – the same SDNY that is withholding Epstein files from AG Bondi. Brian Kolfage may die in prison after being convicted on false charges pushed by the corrupt SDNY in a corrupt New York court overseen by corrupt Obama judge, Analisa Torres. Brian did nothing wrong. The judge prevented evidence that would exonerate him from being shared in the court and he was convicted by a biased New York jury that didn’t give...

President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a woman he pardoned during his first term, as "pardon czar." The announcement came during a Black History Month event at the White House. The "pardon czar" will be responsible for making recommendations about who should be granted clemency. Johnson was convicted of nonviolent drug trafficking in Memphis, Tennessee, and after serving 21 years, her life sentence was commuted by Trump. Reality television star Kim Kardashian West met with Trump at the White House a week prior to her release to discuss the great-grandmother's case. While Johnson claims she never "touched,...

Corrections officials have ended all outside visits to New York state prisons in the wake of a growing jail guard strike and sporadic inmate unrest — as riots erupted at another upstate prison early Thursday. The newest uprising by out-of-control inmates struck the Riverview Correctional Facility, which sits near the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Ogdensburg. No staffers were hurt during the chaos, which WWNY 7 News said broke out overnight Wednesday into Thursday.

Welcome to CECOT, the world’s largest prison by capacity in El Salvador which was constructed to imprison the worst of the worst. Those who enter this prison are destined to never leave here. This is the world’s strictest and largest mega prison. It has a capacity of 40,000. Built in 2022, this massive prison is made up of eight separate modules spread over 410 acres of land. Each pair of modules is enclosed by two separate 3-meter-high walls with razor wire. The entire facility is surrounded by a towering 9-meter-high wall with a 3-meter-high electric fence carrying 15,000 volts. Nineteen...

Sunk deep into shaven and elaborately tattooed skulls, a hundred pairs of eyes – hollow and dark –are boring directly into mine. The men they belong to have committed crimes evil almost beyond comprehension. Members of two of the most savage rival gangs the world has seen, El Salvador’s Ms-13 and Barrio 18, they raped and tortured, murdered and mutilated, cut bodies to pieces and strewed them around the streets to strike terror in the neighbourhoods they controlled. On my journey to the world-renowned prison that holds them, the Latin American country’s new Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), my government escorts...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality as well as violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said. "He's also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”

Washington (PTI) -- US President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to set up a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain “high-priority criminal aliens.” The Guantanamo Bay facility, which has so far been used to hold terrorists, will now also house illegal immigrants with criminal records. The signing took place on Wednesday, with Trump directing the Departments of Defence and Homeland Security to prepare the facility. According to the memorandum, he ordered the expansion of the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to accommodate “high-priority criminal aliens” and address related enforcement needs. “Most people don’t...

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for trading bribes for political favors. Federal prosecutors levied allegations of bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent against Menendez, then-chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in fall 2023. Last summer, he became the first public official ever convicted of acting as a foreign agent while in office. A New York jury found the senator and his wife, Nadine, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and luxury cars from three New Jersey businessmen. In exchange, Menendez protected the halal meat...

President Donald Trump has restored single-sex prisons, sending male inmates who identify as women back to men’s facilities. The approximately 1,500 male federal prisoners who identify as women will now be sent to men’s facilities in the wake of President Trump’s executive order establishing single-sex prisons, according to a report by the New York Times. President Trump’s executive order, titled, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” also ends transgender-related medical procedures for prison inmates. The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a feminist organization that advocates for single-sex prisons and raises awareness about incarcerated...

Hundreds of transgender federal prisoners are living in fear after a 'roundup' that will send them packing to men's lockups following a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump. Now lawyers are desperately trying to find a way to fight the order, saying the prisoners will have 'a target on their backs' as they move in with hardened male inmates. 'It's going to be incredibly dangerous,' attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen told DailyMail.com. Meltzer-Cohen represents Donna Langan, a transgender woman who underwent a sex change in federal prison. She is serving a life sentence for bank robbery as a member of the...

A tatted-up Tren de Aragua gang hellcat was allowed to take off her ankle monitor a year before she was busted running a lawless, brutal border hotel brothel, sources said. Federal immigration authorities let alleged Venezuelan sex trafficker Estefania “La Barbie” Primera go without the tracking monitor after she whined that her belongings had been stolen, including the bracelet’s charger, sources told The Post. “La Barbie” was later arrested by cops in El Paso, Texas and accused of running a sex trafficking ring out of the Gateway Hotel, which had been taken over by TdA gangbangers, sources added. Border agents...

Hulking trans child molester repeatedly sexually assaulted female cellmate after being transferred to women’s prison: suit A former inmate at a Washington state women’s prison was repeatedly sexually assaulted by her hulking transgender cellmate — who was transferred to the prison after changing her gender identity, according to a shocking new lawsuit. Mozzy Clark sued the state department of corrections in federal court last week for locking her in a cell with a 6-foot-4 convicted child molester who allegedly subjected her to months of stalking, threats of violence and sexual harassment and assault, according to the lawsuit. The cellmate, Christopher...

A gay Georgia couple convicted of sickeningly sexually abuse their two adopted sons will spend the rest of the lives behind bars. William and Zachary Zulock, 34 and 36, were each sentenced last week to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole, the Walton County District Attorney’s office announced. “These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else,” said District Attorney Randy McGinley, according to WSB-TV. “However, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets, is not greater than the resolve of...

Venezuelan who is running for office in Utah warned that local authorities “are not ready” to deal with Tren de Aragua — as the vicious prison gang has expanded its territory to at least 18 states. Carlos Moreno, who is running for Salt Lake County Council in District 2, spoke out against Tren de Aragua gangbangers .. who have been linked to at least two separate crimes in the Beehive State capital — including a prostitution ring. “Our law enforcement people are not ready,” ... They are not ready yet to face these kinds of gangs in Utah because the...

A Las Vegas convict who was seen in a viral video launching a “Superman style” attack on a judge earlier this year was sentenced to decades behind bars Tuesday – even as he bizarrely claimed to care about his victim’s well-being. Deobra Redden, 31, was hit with a prison term between 26 and 65 years nearly a year after he jumped over Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus’ bench and tackled her to the ground as court staff desperately tried to save her. Redden was charged with attempted murder following the vicious assault and pleaded guilty to the charge...

A trans-identified male serving a life sentence for murder who was quietly transferred in to a women’s prison is now sharing a shower with female inmates, causing them to feel “violated.” Bradley Richard Sirvio, 53, was transferred into Minnesota women’s prison MCF-Shakopee at the end of last year after claiming to identify as transgender and adopting the name “Aurora.” In November of 1995, Sirvio beat a man to death with a hammer before setting the victim’s house on fire. According to court records, Sirvio was checking himself into a detoxification center when he “volunteered to a staff member during the...