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Nearly 400 pre-trial detainees to be transferred from private prison in Georgia in move critics say is “a catastrophe”

The U.S. Marshals Service is preparing to transfer some 400 pre-trial detainees from a private prison in Georgia run by the Florida-based GEO Group to another facility nearly 200 miles away. Sources familiar with the plan say federal defenders, prosecutors and judges fear the move could disrupt criminal prosecutions in Atlanta, where the state’s busiest…

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National Guardsman in D.C. as part of Trump crackdown on crime charged after pointing gun at colleague

A National Guardsman assigned to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Trump’s crackdown on crime is now facing criminal charges himself after he allegedly pulled a gun on a colleague. Zion Mitchell, 21, of Macon, Georgia, was arrested earlier this month on charges of possessing a firearm while committing the crime…

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