According to the most recent data, some 181,500 veterans are held in American prisons and jails. A Council on Criminal Justice Commission headed by former Defense Chief Chuck Hagel is tasked to investigate.
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The Veterans Affairs inspector general told federal prosecutors of possible criminal conduct by Secretary Robert Wilkie stemming from an investigation into whether he worked to discredit a congressional aide who said she was sexually assaulted.
Chief Art Acevedo said police had been called twice last weekend by the wife of shooting suspect Elmer Manzano over domestic violence.
Reta Mays, a former Army National Guard veteran, pleaded guilty to giving lethal doses of insulin to veterans at the Clarksburg, W.Va., VA medical center. Mays did not explain her motive.
Reality Winner, an Air Force veteran who has been imprisoned for nearly three years for leaking a classified report on Russian hacking, has asked President Donald Trump for to commute the rest of the 63-month sentence she received in 2018.
Former DeKalb County, Ga., police officer Robert “Chip” Olsen was sentenced to a 12-year prison term for killing an naked mentally ill Afghanistan war veteran. Olsen was acquitted of felony murder charges.
Nearly 4,200 Veterans Affairs police officers are stationed at 139 VA medical centers across the U.S. An investigation finds that some of them have beaten veterans, bungled sensitive investigations, and conducted improper searches.
In a deal approved by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Esteban Santiago, a military veteran charged with fatally shooting five people and wounding six others at the Fort Lauderdale airport last year will plead guilty in exchange for receiving a life sentence.
Albert Wong, a veteran who had been asked to leave a program where he was being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, returned to kill three women working at the program and then committed suicide.
In many corrections facilities, military service offers one distinct privilege: a special cellblock where veterans can work through problems they often share, such as substance use and post-traumatic stress disorder.