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California bill proposes pilot program for single-occupancy prison cells
In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing ...
Prison staff sceptical renting cells abroad will solve France's overcrowding crisis
With prisons overflowing, France is considering renting cells abroad. But will this solve the problem or just shift it to ...
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Inside CECOT, El Salvador's notorious prison, where inmates never see the light of day
El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison is a maximum-security facility ... had among the highest homicide rates in the world in the aftermath, USA TODAY reported. In 2015, it was known as the ...
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Inhumane rules of 'world's worst prison' as Donald Trump sends 250 gang members to hellhole
Cells have two toilets and a basin ... The El Salvador government boasts that the prison is one of the most secure in the world with two sets of electric fences, and that is on top of two concrete ...
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In notorious Salvadoran prison, US deportees live in identical cells to convicted gangsters
Tecoluca, El Salvador (CNN) — Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in ... and they are kept in communal cells holding up to 100 men each ...