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We Went Inside a Maximum Security Prison That's Rehabilitating Criminals
Murder, mayhem, and meditation at Salinas Valley State Prison.
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Eighty mentally ill US prisoners have died since 2003
More than 80 people with mental health problems have died as a result of abuse or neglect in US jails since 2003, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.
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Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor, sentenced to 10 years in prison
Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin , who portrayed himself as a straight-talking anti-politician determined to clean up the city’s notoriously corrupt culture, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering and other corruption during his two terms.
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Prisoner 'Gouges Out Own Eyes' in Protest over Hot Nottingham Cell
A prisoner has gouged out his own eyes in protest at the hot conditions inside his jail cell, it has been revealed. The man in his 50s is said to have self-inflicted the injuries at HMP Nottingham just days before he was due to be released. The incident occurred as inmates were protesting about the sweltering heat inside their cells and general poor conditions of the prison.
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Get Out of Jail, Inc. Does the alternatives-to-incarceration industry profit from injustice?
On a cold November afternoon, Harriet Cleveland, a forty-nine-year-old mother of three, waved me over from the steps of her pink cottage in Montgomery, Alabama. She was off to her part-time job as a custodian at a local day-care center, looking practical but confectionary: pink lipstick, a pastel yellow-and-pink tunic, and dangly pink earrings. We’d need to start walking soon, she explained.
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Delivery drone carrying marijuana, cellphones and tobacco crashed outside a S.C. prison
Police are seeking one man and have arrested another who they believe tried to smuggle contraband into a South Carolina prison by way of drone. On the morning of April 21, officers discovered a small drone that had crashed in the bushes outside the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, S.C., according to the Associated Press.
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Arizona Inmate Received 15 Doses Of Execution Drugs Before He Finally Died
Late last month, an Arizona inmate named Joseph Rudolph Wood was strapped to a gurney and pumped full of drugs that were supposed to kill him quickly. He did not die until two hours later. According to his attorneys, Wood spent more than an hour “gasping and snorting” before he finally died.
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I Went Undercover in America's Toughest Prison
Everyone knows the US imprisons more people than any other country in the world. What they might not know is that, as an American citizen, you’re more likely to be jailed than if you were Chinese, Russian or North Korean; that, with 2.3 million inmates, there are currently the same amount of people imprisoned in the States as the combined populations of Estonia and Cyprus; and that once Americans are sent to jail, they tend to keep going back.
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Selling the Plaza Hotel, From an Indian Jail Cell
Some people land in jail and have to sell off some prized assets in order to make bail. Then there’s Subrata Roy, who may have to part with the Plaza Hotel, not to mention some other prized properties in New York and London.
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My Life Under House Arrest
One of China's best-known dissidents writes about life as a prisoner of conscience in Beijing.
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How To Plan A Jailbreak
There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding Thursday’s escape attempt by the notorious Ohio school shooter T.J. Lane. Will we ever get answers?
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How Gangs Took Over Prisons
Originally formed for self-protection, prison gangs have become the unlikely custodians of order behind bars—and of crime on the streets.
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3 reasons America still leads the world in imprisoning people
There's a lot more work to be done.
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PETA wants accused cannibal killer fed vegan diet
It has the stuff of a comedic one-liner, but PETA says it is dead serious in urging the local sheriff to feed an accused cannibal killer a vegan diet in order to “swear off flesh” while he’s imprisoned. Kenneth Montville, a national spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the proposal is aimed at making the group’s point that meatless food can help reduce violent behavior and also save money for jails.
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Federal prison population drops for first time in 3 decades, Justice Dept. says
The federal prison population has dropped by nearly 5,000 inmates this year, the first decline in decades, according to the Justice Department. In a speech Tuesday at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. highlighted the decline as a breakthrough for criminal-justice reform advocates who have tried to reverse the trend of rising incarceration.
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The Uncatchable
He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero.
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Three Years on Rikers Without Trial
Jennifer Gonnerman on Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen-ager who was accused of stealing a backpack. He spent over a thousand days awaiting trial.
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Euthanasia is a rational option for prisoners facing the torture of life in jail
In 2007, at a bioethics forum at the University of Tasmania, I made what I thought was a fairly common sense statement: if the Port Arthur mass murderer, Martin Bryant, wants euthanasia, the state should not stand in his way.
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O.J. Simpson reportedly dying of HIV in prison
O.J. Simpson, the 67-year-old former football legend who became better known for the murder case which engulfed his life, is once again said to be dying in prison.
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Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison
In Bolivia, breaking out of prison is hard. Sneaking in is pretty easy, especially if it’s San Pedro Prison, the most bizarre correctional facility in the world.
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