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County prosecutors had charged that Landa-Rodriguez, while incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for illegally reentering the country, sanctioned the killing of a rival’s underling.

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Ukraine's justice ministry said four bombs hit the Bilenke penitentiary, destroying the dining hall, administrative HQ and quarantine area and that all those killed and wounded were inmates.

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This month, he proposed reopening Alcatraz, the decaying island penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay, to house the country’s “most ruthless and violent” criminals.

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An investigation by the Marshall Project in 2022 disclosed pervasive violence and abuse at a high-security unit in the Thomson federal penitentiary in Illinois.

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Inside the penitentiary, with a backdrop of heavily tattooed prisoners stacked behind bars, Noem went on X to deliver a warning.

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