NYC jail watchdog group warns new Rikers high-security unit is ‘keg of dynamite’
The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...
Inside the Shelby County Jail: What a Commercial Appeal reporter saw inside 201 Poplar
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office invited media to tour the Shelby County Jail. A CA reporter saw deteriorating conditions ...
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Sing Sing Museum: Incarceration Then and Now
A museum whose mission extends beyond the history of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility to exploring incarceration in America today is expected to open this October in the village where […] ...
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Pre-trial inmates: Overhaul the judicial system
The NCoS chief wants the Attorney-General of the Federation, and the Inspector-General of Police to ensure that awaiting trial persons’ cases are fast-tracked. Many of the ATPs are charged with ...
verywellhealth14d
Types of Neurons and Their Function
Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...
Greenock Telegraph14d
Greenock gangster Robert Warnock had mobile phone in cell
Prison officers found the latest phone in Robert Warnock's cell at Addiewell prison in West Lothian last year, a court heard. Warnock was originally charged with possessing two personal communication ...
The Conversation20d
Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
In 1980, just over 10,000 Australians were incarcerated. In 2024, prison cells swelled with 44,400 people. This isn’t because crime is worse. The rate of murder and manslaughter — the most ...
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Man sentenced to prison for life after keeping sex slave in cinder block cell
A man was recently sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted by a jury for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women. The man also locked one of his victims in a cinder block cell.
Wall Street Journal21d
Jan. 6 Defendants Leave Prison as Trump’s Broad Pardons Draw Sharp Reactions
Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Some of the highest profile defendants ... Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud ...
The Independent21d
‘They beat us every day’: Freed Palestinian prisoners allege abuse in Israeli jails
She said she still has scars on her wrists from the handcuffs. “They put me in a prison cell with a camera on the toilet and another camera in the rest of the cell for three days. So I decided ...
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Biden in Last-Minute Final Act as President Commutes Leonard Peltier Prison Sentence
Peltier himself is still locked today in his tiny solitary cell in the federal prison, USP Coleman in Florida, as Bureau of Prison authorities do the paperwork for him to be transferred from there ...
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Trump’s Jan 6 pardon frees hundreds of Capitol rioters from prison
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday ...