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Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars
New statistics show a spike in the amount of journalists jailed in the country. To protect its democracy, Israel needs to be transparent about why members of the media are arrested.
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California’s free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation
California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.
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AI Software to Eavesdrop on Prisoner Phone Calls in Florida
A company that uses surveillance software to monitor U.S. prisoners' phone calls is on the verge of deploying its technology across the Sunshine State. LEO Technologies, a Los Angeles-based company that transcribes inmate communications in real time using an artificial intelligence speech-to-text feature, is marketed as a way to monitor inmate health, improve prison security, and thwart crime. Despite spawning concerns over overzealous surveillance and potential misuse, the software — known as Verus — has been sold and deployed across nearly a dozen states.
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R. Kelly Files Appeal Over 30-Year Prison Sentence, Argues Prosecutors Did Not Prove Case
His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, filed Kelly's appeal on Tuesday. This development came after a jury found him guilty on all nine counts of a superseding indictment charging him with racketeering predicated on criminal conduct including sexual exploitation of children, forced labor, and Mann Act violations.
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Joe Exotic Says 'Tiger King' Ruined His Life In Exclusive Jailhouse Interview
Joe Exotic says the hit Netflix series surrounding his life is the worst thing that's happened to him, because it made the public believe he tried to kill Carole Baskin -- and yet, he's forgiven everyone, including Carole, as he faces the possibility of dying in prison.
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The Cruel Practice of Banning Books Behind Bars
In Florida , the list of 20,000-plus banned books includes Nutrition For Dummies and PCs For Dummies . In New Hampshire , the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy makes the list. Texas , which bans nearly 9,000 books , once counted a…
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Elizabeth Holmes gives birth to second child ahead of 11-year jail sentence in Theranos scam
Fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes gave birth to her second child as her lawyers fight to delay her imprisonment. The founder and former CEO of Theranos has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors with her Silicon Valley start-up firm. Holmes’ legal team gave the first public acknowledgment that she had indeed given birth in a filing late last week but did not reveal when she gave birth, New York Post reported.
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Ghislaine Maxwell hates the food and work regime in prison
The disgraced socialite – serving 20 years for sex trafficking and grooming underage girls for her late paedophile partner Jeffrey Epstein – said in an interview from her jail cell she despised the small portions she is served behind bars and lashed out at the standard of vegetarian options on offer, as well as the number of chores she has to do in the day.
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The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed
A new rule allowing the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the rates of prison phone calls is one step closer to becoming law. After it passed through Congress last week, the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 now awaits President Joe Biden’s signature.
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Elizabeth Holmes Will Likely Land in Fenceless, Low-Security Prison for Theranos Fraud
Legal experts say that Holmes may serve as little as three years at one of the least restrictive facilities in the system...
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Red Cross requests access to Ukraine prison after POWS die
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have a duty to react after an attack on a prison complex killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war
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Proud Boys leader Tarrio loses latest bid for release from jail
A judge has denied the latest request by Enrique Tarrio, the former top leader of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, for release from jail while he awaits trial on criminal charges relating to last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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The Disastrous History of Rikers
How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.
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‘Freedom Libraries’ aim to transform prisons, 500 books at a time
The libraries are meant to provide beauty, access to literature and cultivate a community space in prisons nationwide.
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Inside Jussie Smollett’s terrifying new prison home
Jussie Smollett’s new digs are actually pretty terrifying — as one would expect from a prison. The Cook County Jail where the “Empire” actor will spend the next 150 days has faced hundreds of lawsuits over the years, with inmates alleging overcrowding, violent treatment and not enough protection against other inmates.
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Siberian Teen Sentenced to Prison for 'Terrorist' Minecraft Activities
Being sentenced to prison for playing a video game sounds pretty rough, but apparently it can happen to you if you’re a kid in Russia.
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Incarcerated youths at greater risk for dying early, study finds
People incarcerated as adolescents and teens are more likely to die at young age than the rest of the population, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. Those ages 11 to 21 years who previously served time in juvenile detention facilities have a nearly six-fold higher risk for early death compared with those who have not been incarcerated, the data showed.
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An Unplanned, Ad-Hoc Collaboration Reveals The On-The-Ground Truth About China's Internment Camps For Uyghurs
The US, UK and Australia have all announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The reason given for the move is because of human rights abuses in China, particularly in the turkic-speaking region of Xinjiang. Techdirt has been...
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A Boy Among Men
Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. The town of 11,000 residents, which sits in the remote center of the state, houses five prisons, and over the years, it has earned the nickname “I Own Ya.” John, who was 17, had already gotten over the initial fear of going to an adult prison—he had spent several months at a county jail near Detroit and an intake facility in Jackson—but he also knew he would be spending longer at this lonely outpost, a minimum of three years for a couple of home invasions.
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The American Prison System's War on Reading
Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.
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