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Police: Woman Smuggled Drugs To Inmate With Kiss - CBS Pittsburgh
State police are investigating a report that a woman smuggled drug-filled balloons to her western Pennsylvania inmate boyfriend by passing them mouth-to-mouth during a kiss.
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Anders Breivik threatens hunger strike for better video games
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games to alleviate his "torture"-like living conditions, in a letter to prison authorities. The right-wing extremist - who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun attack on July 22, 2011 - enclosed a typed list of 12 demands sent to prison authorities in November.
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More Prisoners Using Smuggled Phones To Plot Escapes, Illegal Activity
They're hidden in babies' diapers, ramen noodle soup packages, footballs, soda cans and even body cavities. Not drugs or weapons, but cellphones. They're becoming a growing problem in prisons across the country as they are used to make threats, plan escapes and for inmates to continue to make money from illegal activity even while behind bars.
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Saudi Arabia Jails Seven Men for Up to 20 Years for Demonstrating
A Riyadh court sentenced seven men to between six and 20 years in jail on Wednesday for offences that included taking part in protests in the town of Qatif, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, state news agency SPA said.
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Solitary Confinement May Dramatically Alter Brain Shape In Just Days, Neuroscientist Says
Solitary confinement has been called a “living death,” cruel and unusual, and torture. Studies of the prison practice of placing inmates in a solitary, often concrete windowless cell for 23 hours a day with almost no human contact, have found that the psychological impact is dramatic after just a few days.
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My Night in Solitary
Most states now agree that solitary confinement is overused, and many — like New York, which just agreed to a powerful set of reforms this week — are beginning to act.
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Will El Chapo Rule From Prison?
A joint U.S.-Mexico security operation ended a 13-year manhunt for El Chapo, the head of the feared Sinaloa cartel.
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The Private Prison Racket
Companies that manage prisons on our behalf have abysmal records. So why do we keep giving them business?
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Convicts Share Words of Wisdom with their Younger Selves in Powerful Photo Series
It was in the early part of 2013 when Trent Bell, a commercial photographer known for his architectural photos, received the shocking news that a friend of his had been sentenced to thirty-six years in prison for some trouble he got himself into.
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Solitary Confinement Costs $78K Per Inmate And Should Be Curbed, Critics Say
Former prisoners spoke about the effects of solitary confinement Tuesday in a congressional hearing aimed at banning it for some inmates. Solitary confinement is also extremely expensive, critics say.
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This Man Has Served 20 Years—and May Die—in Prison for Marijuana
It seems unbelievable that someone could spend the rest of his life in prison for marijuana possession, but that's the harsh reality for Missourian Jeff Mizanskey. Because of Missouri's laws regarding "prior and persistent drug offenders," which allow judges to sentence third-time offenders to life in prison for drug charges even if no violence occurred and no guns were involved, Mizanskey has spent the last 20 years behind bars.
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Now, Kim Jong-un jails North Korea's second most powerful man
North Korea's second most powerful leader has disappeared with speculation that dictator Kim Jong Un has sent him to jail. South Korean authorities said that Choe Ryong Hae has fallen victim to the latest government purge. South Korea's government said Ryong Hae has been sent to jail for interrogation. According to the Washington Times, the Unification ministry, the South Korea-based body tasked with overseeing relations between the two countries, said it's "looking into" the accusations.
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Vietnam sends blogger to prison for critical posts
A dissident blogger was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for posting online criticism of Vietnam's authoritarian government, drawing an immediate rebuke from the United States. The verdict against Truong Duy Nhat was the latest in an intensifying crackdown against advocates of free speech and greater democracy in the Communist-ruled country, where the Internet is enabling more opportunities for organizing and spreading dissent.
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How 4 Inmates Launched A Statewide Hunger Strike From Solitary
Last summer, four alleged leaders of rival prison gangs worked together to coordinate a hunger strike at California's Pelican Bay State Prison. They were protesting long-term, indefinite incarceration in solitary confinement.
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FBI Investigates Company Running 'Gladiator School' Prison
The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School." The Nashville, Tenn.-based CCA has operated Idaho's largest prison for more than a decade, but last year, CCA officials acknowledged it had understaffed the Idaho Correctional Center by thousands of hours in violation of the state contract.
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80,000 Americans Suffer From a Cruel and Unusual Practice Most Countries Abolished
The U.S. has less than 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's incarcerated population. The country's prison population has increased by 700% in the last 30 years, exceeding 2 million people in 2002. Prisons are now 40% over capacity and account for a full quarter of the Department of Justice's budget. Half of inmates are serving time for drug-related offences, the majority of which involve marijuana.
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Why For-Profit Prisons House More Inmates Of Color
A new study by a UC-Berkeley graduate student has surprised a number of experts in the criminology field. Its main finding: Private prisons are packed with young people of color. The concept of racial disparities behind bars is not exactly a new one. Study after report after working group has found a version of the same conclusion.
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Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours'
Future biotechnology could be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1,000 year sentence, a team of scientists claim
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A letter from Guantanamo: 'Nobody can truly understand how we suffer'
I write this letter, as I wrote my last, between bouts of violent vomiting and sharp pains in my stomach caused by this morning's force-feeding session. Reading news articles, you would think that we have stopped striking. Perhaps you might think that our protests had even been sated by government concessions. We may be trapped behind the walls of Guantanamo, but we will not be silenced.
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The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence
Most states shut down their debtors’ prisons more than 100 years ago; in 2005, Harpersville, Alabama, opened one back up.
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