Correctional Services News

Carrie Ann Klosterman, 32, rural Marshalltown, entered a guilty plea to 3rd offense drunken driving.

Police need your help to find three Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services pre-release offenders that walked away from a halfway house Sunday.

While the Department of Correctional Services maintains that Naidoo had been transferred because of the prison's rehabilitation programmes, a prison source said Naidoo was being punished for speaking to the media.

Ontario's Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services has renewed two separate funding programs that will benefit Hamilton police.

High-profile sentenced prisoners being checked into hospital had become a trend in South Africa, and reflected poorly on the criminal justice system, a senior Unisa criminologist and former Department of Correctional Services officer said.

On Tuesday, prison officials strapped an electronic monitoring device to his ankle as he started a new chapter of freedom.

Socialite Sifiso Zulu has not slept one night on the steel bed of his Medium B jail cell since being admitted to Westville Prison on Saturday.

Mt. Auburn is the oldest owned and operated African American cemetery in Baltimore City.

ESSA/ADJALA-TOS/NEW TEC - The province says it's unwilling to make change legislation allowing the three municipalities under contract to the Nottawasaga OPP to each have a permanent seat on the police services board.

A federal judge has ruled against five Nebraska prison guards who alleged in a 2010 lawsuit that they were working in a racially hostile environment, saying the guards didn't prove that their rights had been violated.

A twist in the presidential remission of sentence announced last week could see businessman Sifiso Zulu - currently fighting going to jail for his three-year culpable homicide sentence - spend only mere weeks in jail.

Romance Armstrong, 24, was on probation after being convicted on a charge related to cocaine possession in May 2010.A He was expected to be on parole until November 2012.

Shocking figures released in Parliament by the Public Service Commission yesterday show that in the 2010/11 financial year - the period under review - the police led the precautionary suspension list with 869 of their officials sitting at home, followed by Correctional Services with 471 employees on suspension.

The early release of thousands of prisoners - announced by President Jacob Zuma on Freedom Day - is no cause for alarm, says the Department of Correctional Services.

Ontario's minister in charge of policing has ordered her department to review how officers across the province respond to people in the throes of mental illness after a string of fatal shootings by police."We need to take a step back and see what are we doing and what is done elsewhere, and to come out with recommendations," said Madeleine ... (more)

Experts have expressed unease over whether the Department of Correctional Services will be able to properly manage the early release of thousands of prisoners.