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Leaders in Indiana are working toward approval for Pell funding, believing the move will benefit those in and out of prisons.

Indiana State Police say the death of a 44-year-old convicted murderer at the State Prison in Michigan City is being investigated as a homicide.

A federal lawsuit filed Monday claims the new law violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Nearly three dozen have applied to a restitution program worth up to $50,000 per year behind bars.

Kristen L. Wolf, of Madison, also will plead guilty to attempted murder and attempted battery by means of a deadly weapon.

Austin Bolton, 20, and Keegan Brooks, 19, left the unit at the New Castle Correctional Facility Monday and were found about two hours later and taken into custody.

Taking over the DOC top job is current deputy commissioner Christina Reagle. She’s been with the agency for more than a decade, including leadership of the finance, construction, data and technology divisions.

The problem is that the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s office is in a staffing crisis. Chronically they don’t have enough confinement officers.

If unsuccessful in his appeal, Roof — now on federal death row at a maximum-security prison in Terre Haute, Indiana — could file a request that the trial court review the constitutionality of his conviction and sentence.

Whitfield died on April 25 after being tased by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers. Body camera footage released last month showed Whitfield yelling “I can’t breathe” repeatedly while being detained by officers.