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Chelsea Manning to receive military 'gender treatment'
The US military will begin treatment for US document leaker Chelsea Manning for her gender-identity condition. Defence secretary Chuck Hagel has approved gender treatment for Pte First Class Manning, who was formerly known as Bradley. The move came after the bureau of prisons rejected the Army's request to transfer her from a military facility.
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Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers
The extortion case against Thomas DiFiore, a reputed boss in the Bonanno crime family, encompassed thousands of pages of evidence, including surveillance photographs, cellphone and property records, and hundreds of hours of audio recordings.
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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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States That Slashed Their Prison Populations Have Seen Disproportionate Drops In Crime, Too
The United States still has the highest incarceration rate in the world, but those few states that managed to significantly reduce their prison population over the last decade saw benefits other than reduced lock-up costs. They also saw their crime rate go down at a higher rate than the national average, according to a new report from the Sentencing Project.
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Inside job: the story of Witold Pilecki, leader of the Secret Polish Army
Unknown to most of the world until the late '80s, Witold Pilecki was a leader of the Secret Polish Army. Dan Lewis on an all-round badass.
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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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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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I Went From Grad School to Prison
This past spring, Cecily McMillan rode a bus across a bridge to Rikers Island, home of the notorious New York City jail. When the Occupy Wall Street activist was released nearly two months later, she had left her old self behind.
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The Future of Guantánamo
The remaining 149 wartime detainees vary greatly, from prisoners the United States government has little interest in continuing to detain to a handful of the most notorious terrorist suspects of the era. In general, they can be divided into two groups: 79 lower-level prisoners who have been recommended for transfer, and 70 higher-level prisoners who have not.
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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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Death-Row Dining
What is behind our collective fascination with death-row prisoners’ last meals?
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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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Cruel and Usual Punishment: Is There a Humane Alternative to Prison?
The failures of our moral imagination lead us to overuse prison as punishment. Millions of people are serving unjustifiably long sentences in living tombs as a result of our inability to take prison time seriously.
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Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial
We look at the incredible story of how a 16-year-old high school sophomore from the Bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at the Rikers jail in New York City after he says he was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. Kalief Browder never pleaded guilty and was never convicted.
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The priest who became a gang ‘boss’
In El Salvador, priest Antonio Rodriguez began working with gang members in prison. Authorities say over time Rodriguez became a gang member himself.
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Americans overwhelmingly agree it’s time to end mandatory minimum sentencing
Mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenses, particularly drug crimes, have been a leading factor in the nation's skyrocketing prison populations over the past several decades. Given the high annual costs of incarcerating non-violent offenders, momentum has been building at the federal level to reform these sentencing rules, and it's possible one of the several reform bills currently before Congress could pass in coming years.
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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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In Prisons, Sky-High Phone Rates and Money Transfer Fees
Inside the razor wire on Eagle Crest Way, in rural Clallam Bay, Wash., telephone calls start at $3.15. Emails out, beyond the security fence, run 33 cents. Money transfers in, to what pass for bank accounts, cost $4.95.
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The Rare Psychological Disorder That Only Affects Death Row Inmates
Imagine being told you are going to die in a month. Then it's a few hours. Then another month. You may be set free or you may be killed, and it all depends on events that are completely out of your control. How long could you stand it?
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Wife: Joran van der Sloot stabbed in prison
Joran van der Sloot's wife says her husband was "seriously injured" in a stabbing at the Peruvian prison where he is serving time for murder, but a top prison official is calling her account an outright lie, according to reports.
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