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Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why.
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Prisoners return after Yolanda typhoon mass escape
Nearly half of the detainees who escaped from a flooded jail at the height of Super Typhoon Haiyan have returned, many after helping their families deal with the storm's aftermath. There were nearly 600 detainees at the Leyte Provincial Jail when the typhoon, one of the strongest ever to make landfall, flattened dozens of towns across the islands of Leyte and Samar on November 8.
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Pirate Bay Founder’s Imminent Extradition Raises Big Questions
On Wednesday 27 November, Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be removed from prison in Sweden and extradited to neighboring Denmark on hacking charges, despite already being cleared of similar charges in his home country. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Gottfrid’s mother Kristina raises a number of serious concerns over her son’s deportation to a country that has not formally indicted him.
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Egypt: Heavy prison sentence for Islamist women
Nearly two dozen Islamist women and girls, some as young as 15, were handed heavy prison sentences Wednesday for protesting in a court ruling that came a day after police beat and terrorized prominent female activists in a crackdown on secular demonstrators under a tough new anti-protest law.
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Are Prisons Bleeding Us Dry?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to introduce a mandatory prison sentence for anyone caught with an illegal firearm. But reams of data shows that incarceration creates more crime.
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Prison Memoir of a Black Man in the 1850s
Years ago, a rare-books dealer browsing at an estate sale in Rochester came across an unusual manuscript, dated 1858. The family selling it said little about where it had been for the last 150 years. It appeared never to have left upstate New York.
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'One-man prison' cost €4.3 million
A German state spent €4.3 million on a prison which only had one inmate and then closed, according to a report on Thursday. The single inmate was accompanied by 26 members of staff for a year.
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This Is What It's Like To Be A Tech Geek ... In Prison
It's probably not a question that gets asked around your office every day. But it can happen. A Microsoft executive was charged with insider trading last week, for instance (although he does not face prison time). Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning, former eBay affiliate marketers accused of defrauding the auction site of $35 million, face up to 20 years in prison (they have yet to be sentenced).
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Mass murderer Breivik treated better than hacker, campaign says
An international media campaign is targeting the Danish legal system’s treatment of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svarholm Warg by arguing that convicted Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik receives more humane conviction than the Swedish hacker.
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Here's What White Collar Prison Is Really Like For Three High-Profile Criminals
If there were ever a person who might be able to clue you in on what life in a white-collar—or minimum-security or “country club”—prison was actually like, it was this guy. You know this guy. How many former New York City police commissioners, former overseers of Rikers Island, former consultants for U.S. security in Iraq or former almost-heads of the Department of Homeland Security are there in the world who ended up in the slammer?
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Meet The Murderers Jailed In Venezuela's Luxury Prison
Party Prison: The villains and murderers banged up in a South American Benidorm Latin American jails are usually dark places. But San Antonio Prison in Venezuela could be mistaken for a holiday resort, with its swimming pool, food stalls and overnight accommodation for guests.
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The iPod of Prison
Why a cheap, decade-and-a-half-old model of AM/FM radio remains ubiquitous in correctional facilities and coveted outside them.
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Rotting in Prison for Hosting the Wrong House Guest? The War on Terror's Insane Abuses Continue
The “No Separate Justice" campaign is taking aim at an abusive system that has wreaked havoc on the lives of hundreds of Muslims. For nearly three years, a Muslim-American named Syed Fahad Hashmi was held under restrictive conditions inside the walls of the MCC. Before he had his day in court on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, Hashmi was locked in solitary confinement, confined to his cell for 23 hours a day and only allowed out for one hour of recreation - in a cage.
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Prison: The New Mental Hospital
A California measure to reduce prison overcrowding reveals how America is, once again, failing some of its most vulnerable.
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This World Map Shows The Enormity Of America's Prison Problem
About 2.4 million people live behind bars in America — the highest number in the world. That's a little more than 0.7% of the population and more than 700 for every 100,000 people. This world map illustrates how disconcerting that is. The size of each country corresponds to the size of its total prison population (as of 2010), and a darker color indicates a higher incarceration rate.
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Half of Sexual Abuse Claims in American Prisons Involve Guards
Allegations of sex abuse across the country's prisons are on the rise, with nearly half of cases allegedly being perpetrated by guards, according to a new study conducted by the Justice Department. The new Bureau of Justice Statistics report documented more than 8,763 allegations of prisoner sexual victimization between 2009 and 2011, which they say is an 11 percent increase over the number of allegations documented in a report covering 2007-08.
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Prison in paradise?
The American administration has promised to close Guantánamo prison, the facility at the American naval base in Cuba where those captured in the “war on terror” are held for up to 12 years without trial. But it needs to find a place to move the inmates. Of the 155 current prisoners, 90 are Yemeni (so are 56 of the 77 “approved for transfer”).
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Metal band find their music is being used for torture in GITMO, send US government invoice
The US Army's use of Metallica's oeuvre as a tool in its interrogations in Iraq is well documented, but it opted for something a little more esoteric in Guantanamo Bay, according to one Canadian industrial metal band.
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When calling 911 can land you in jail
As Philip Seymour Hoffman’s friends, family and admirers come to terms with his tragic and untimely death and fentanyl-laced heroin kills addicts across the Northeast, the media have responded to the news in the best way it knows how: with a seemingly endless stream of programming on the dangers of heroin and the tenuous lives of those who use it. Unfortunately, even when they get it right, there are often crucial factors missing from the discussion.
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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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