Sheqweetta Vaughan, 32, was pronounced dead at Lee Arrendale State Prison on July 9, when it was 90 degrees in her cellblock.
Heather Parker, a prisoner at Lee Arrendale, told the AJC that she occupied the cell next to Vaughan’s during the week Vaughan died. The heat in the unit that week was “miserable, way more than usual, ...
Months after giving birth, guards found a woman dead inside a state prison cell in northeast Georgia. Now, the circumstances surrounding Sheqweetta Vaughan's death have non-profit leaders concerned.
In 2023, the Georgia Department of Corrections proposed closing Lee Arrendale State Prison, one of the oldest facilities ...
The body of a 40-year-old man, under-trial for murder, was found, in a suspected case of suicide, in a high-security cell of ...
New research shows that zeaxanthin, a plant-derived carotenoid, can strengthen the body's cancer-fighting immune cells and ...
Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and its incidence is climbing. Because it is typically ...
Two days after LaJuanese Trannon’s death, her son, Lemichael Wilson, said he discovered a nude photo of her dead body on her ...
A woman who fled to Mexico after detectives say her boyfriend murdered a Hialeah man in August and stuffed his body into a ...