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How Nearly 2,000 Cameras Tamed a Notorious American Prison
An incarcerated journalist reports on the impact of surveillance on a culture of violence.
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Japan’s prisons are a haven for elderly women.
Lonely seniors are shoplifting in search of the community and stability of jail. In 2016, Japan’s parliament passed a law aiming to ensure that recidivist seniors get support from the country’s welfare and social-service systems. Since then, prosecutor’s offices and prisons have worked closely with government agencies to get senior offenders the assistance they need. But the problems that lead these women to seek the relative comfort of jail lie beyond the system’s reach.
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DMX Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison
DMX has been in and out of jail throughout his career. Only two months after being sent behind bars for violating bail conditions related to failed drug tests, X has just been sentenced to 1 year in prison.
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Porter County Jail Escape
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Nearly 20% of women inmates in Japan’s prisons are seniors
Shoplifting has become something of a lifeline for Japan's elderly population. As Bloomberg reports, nearly one in five women in prison is 65 or older. These elderly women commit minor crimes in order to escape poverty and solitude. Often, women are repeat offenders so that they can return to prison once they are released. To serve...
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Making Musical Connections At Sing Sing Prison
Since 2009, the maximum security prison has been home to music workshops put on by Carnegie Hall and led by some of New York City's top musicians.
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Banning literature in prisons perpetuates system that ignores inmate humanity
Reading, education can help ensure that prisoners who gain freedom, keep it.
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Thousands of Americans jailed for debts chased by private collectors.
An estimated 77 million Americans have a debt that has been transferred to a private collection agency. Thousands end up in jails. More than 6,000 debt collection firms operate in the United States, collecting billions of dollars each year.
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‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal.
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Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick
Lapses in food safety have made American prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population.
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The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages
Inside the booming market for food in pouches, clear electronics, pocket-less clothing and other corrections-approved goods.
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Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years
Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia cop, will remain in jail for refusing to decrypt a hard drive federal investigators found in his home two years ago during a child abuse investigation.
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The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires
By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.
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Charlottesville Suspect To Remain In Jail After First Court Appearance
James Alex Fields Jr. is facing charges including second-degree murder after allegedly ramming his car into a crowd of people demonstrating against a rally held by white supremacists and others.
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Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail
Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low.
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3 O.C. Inmates Who Broke Out of Jail Filmed Their Own Escape, Newly Released Video Shows
Three Orange County inmates who cut through steel bars and rappelled off the rooftop of a maximum-security facility in Santa Ana early last year used a cellphone camera to film their daring escape, video obtained by KTLA on Wednesday showed.
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North Dakota's Norway experiment
Can humane prisons work in America? A red state aims to find out.
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New legislation encourages states to end discriminatory ‘money bail’ practice
Majority of 450,000 Americans awaiting trial on any given day are imprisoned because they can’t afford bail, not because they’ve been deemed a risk. By Jamiles Lartey.
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Murder charge remains for man jailed for decade without bail
A judge is refusing to dismiss a murder charge against an Alabama inmate who has been held in jail for a decade without a trial, ruling there is no evidence that the state purposely or negligently delayed the case. Kharon Davis was arrested in June 2007 in the shooting death of Pete Reaves in Dothan. He has been held without bail in the Houston County Jail since his arrest a decade ago, as the trial date got pushed back numerous times.
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Inmates escape through a jail ventilation system -- again
It's been a tough couple of months for Oklahoma's Lincoln County Jail.
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