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Al-Jazeera journalist jailed in Egypt loses full use of arm
Mohamed Fahmy, one of four imprisoned journalists, reveals injury has worsened after being denied treatment since arrest
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Why do we lock up so many people?
A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens.
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GA Poised To Greatly Expand Predatory Private Probation Industry -- Unless You Call Now
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Georgia, which already leads the nation with 1 in 13 adults in prisons, jails, court & correctional supervision of a...
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Man who ended up never serving his prison sentence due to clerical error awaits fate
In 1999, Cornealious “Mike” Anderson was convicted of armed robbery after taking money from a Burger King manager who was making a bank deposit. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail, but after he posted bond and went home during the appeals process, he was never forced to serve his sentence.
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Kentucky inmate starves to death
A prison doctor has been fired and two other staffers are in the midst of being dismissed after an inmate at the Kentucky State Penitentiary starved himself to death, a case that has exposed lapses in medical treatment and in how hunger strikes are handled at the facility.
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Meet the Vigilante Prisoner Who Beats Up Jail Rapists
Last year I spoke to a guy named Shaun Attwood about making millions on the stock market and plunging it all into a new career as a rave-organizing ecstasy kingpin. One unfortunate side effect of selling drugs on a large scale, I discovered during our conversation, is that if the police find out about it, they’re probably going to send you to jail.
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An Ex-Con's Guide To Prison Weightlifting
Lifting weights in an American prison means joining a culture unlike any seen in a free-world gym, full of crudely welded pig iron and rust. Men forsake masturbation to improve their bench-press stats and consume cans of Jack Mack, the cheapest tinned fish in the world, along with the filthy broth it's packed in for every one of the 72.5 grams of protein promised on the label. It's a manly, aggressive universe with rules and customs of its own. I lived it for 10 years.
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Italian prisoners to get jail terms cut for every book they read
British jails may have banned books for inmates but in Italy, the more prisoners read the more time have knocked off their sentence. New legislation set to be passed means that for every book a prisoner gets through, three days will be knocked off their sentence - up to a maximum of 48 days in a year. Officials say that is the equivalent of 16 books and they all have to be above 400 pages and approved by prison staff - comic books and picture books are excluded.
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Charles Bronson coats himself in BUTTER and attacks 12 prison warders - because Arsenal won FA Cup
Britain's hardest prisoner admitted he “lost it” when Tottenham’s arch rivals defeated Hull at Wembley - and suffered several broken ribs
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American jails have become the new mental asylums – and you're paying the bill
The man running the largest mental health institution in the United States is not a doctor. He did not major in psychiatry, nor did he spend his formative years studying bipolar disorder or working with schizophrenics.
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Life After 'Life': Aging Inmates Struggle For Redemption
A Colorado program for long-term offenders helps a group of aging ex-cons as they attempt to make their way in a fast-paced world and rejoin a society that is not sure they deserve that chance.
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Canada inmates escape by helicopter
Three detainees have escaped from a jail in Quebec province by helicopter, police in eastern Canada say. The helicopter swooped down late on Saturday and is believed to have flown off with the prisoners to the west, possibly towards Montreal.
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Orange is the New Black in real life is a prison epidemic of too many women in jail – and taxpayers like you in the red
The US imprisons more women than any country – and most of them for low-level crimes of poverty and addiction. But there is a better way...
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Deaf inmate sues Oregon prison system for not providing sign-language interpreters
A deaf prison inmate accuses the Oregon Department of Corrections of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing him an interpreter during 13 years of incarceration. A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 48-year-old David D. VanValkenburg seeks $460,000 in damages for what he describes as a systematic failure to effectively communicate with him from the beginning of his prison term in November 2000.
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The Night I Broke Back Into Prison
After serving thirteen years behind bars and struggling to rebuild his life, an ex-con finds solace in a surreptitious trip to the most unexpected place of all—his former cell.
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Mentally ill prisoner died hooded, strapped to chair while guards chatted nearby, suit claims
The family of a mentally ill Colorado prison inmate who died while in custody has filed a lawsuit alleging guards stood around joking while failing to attend to his medical needs following a seizure caught on tape.
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Murderers armed with machetes wander grounds at Philippine prison
One hundred convicts armed with machetes wander through a vast prison without walls in one of the Philippines’ most beautiful islands, a unique approach to reforming criminals.
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This Small Prison in Rural Alabama Is One of the Most Violent Places in America
St. Clair Correctional Facility has seen three fatal stabbings in the past ten months.
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Prisons are terrible, and there’s finally a way to get rid of them
How GPS tracking could make way for a cheaper, more humane system of punishment
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Orange Is the New Black's Irresponsible Portrayal of Men
The victims of the prison system the Netflix show satirizes are overwhelmingly male. Leaving them out reinforces old stereotypes that hurt both genders.
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