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Man Jailed For A Month Over Soap Receives $195K Settlement

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Pennsylvania taxpayers are on the hook after a Brooklyn, New York man claimed he was wrongly jailed for almost a

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Tennessee Probation “Service” Caught Using False-Positive Drug Tests to Increase Profits and Arrests

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The for-profit probation company, Providence Community Corrections, is in the middle of a class action lawsuit after being accused of running an

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