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USA: Artist JR teamed up with current and former inmates to create a mural at a supermax prison outside LA
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Ex-prisoners are getting their voting rights back. But the backlash has already started.
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Thousands have come through the gates of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility. But what happens when they walk out? The prison has dozens of programs meant to help the inmates become valued members of society. One program – involving dogs – is called the Prison Trained K-9 Companion Progr…
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Christina Randall wanted to become a social worker once she got out of jail. She didn’t expect to reach so many people.
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Nature spoke to three US researchers who have built academic careers after they were released.
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Kyle H. has been incarcerated since 2001 and is serving a life sentence.He tells Prison Insider how his days go by.
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Each day in the United States and Canada, it seems like the news media reports another shooting or act of violence that ends in tragedy. As a result, politicians and the public often leap to the conclusion that violence is on the rise and that the answer is to throw more people behind bars.
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Qwantay has been incarcerated for 16 years and will be released in 2034. He describes what a day in prison is like.
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The law prohibits any for-profit lockups—including immigration detention centers.
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A prisoner at the Martin Correctional Institution spent years recording life at the Florida facility, detailing horrid conditions and neglect from staff, according to The Miami Herald.
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Michael Tidwell’s blood sugar reading was at least 15 times his normal level when sheriff’s deputies took him to the hospital. But before they loaded the inmate into the back of a car, deputies propped up his slumping body and handed him a pen so he could sign a release from the Washington County J…
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Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative is the state’s only public B.A. program sending professors to teach behind bars. College programs like it were once far more common, but today advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education.