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North America
Material conditions
Facilities
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Additional inmate housing units and an outdoor recreation area along with access to Native American religious leaders must be implemented as part of a settlement with dozens of inmates.
United States: private equity is using prison phone, food and health systems to rack up profits
News
North America
Material conditions
Facilities
United States
Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.
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Long-term prisoners
Activities
United States
We’re all too willing to argue about the inhumanity of executions. What about those of us who are still alive?
North America
Justice
Material conditions
United States
A tentative settlement in the amount of $4 million was presented on Thursday with regard to a class action lawsuit alleging inhumane living conditions and unethical treatment incurred by inmates at Southern Regional Jail.
North America
Health
Material conditions
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Democratic lawmakers are introducing a package of legislation that they say will counter inhumane conditions in Wisconsin’s prisons and county jails.
North America
Material conditions
United States
The Missouri Justice Coalition is about to launch its first town hall tour focusing on state prison conditions.
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Mental health
Material conditions
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The position appears to have been eliminated last year.
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Health
Mental health
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Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a treatable and preventable infection from a foot wound.
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Pre-trial detention
Health
Material conditions
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Minors
Material conditions
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Children, some as young as 15, incarcerated at notorious Angola prison, which has reputation for brutality and violence.
North America
Discipline
Material conditions
United States
A prison in the US state of Minnesota was placed into lockdown on Sunday after dozens of inmates refused to return to their cells.
North America
Activities
Social ties
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Missouri Prisons have unleashed a new form of cruelty—banning books sent by friends and family to incarcerated individuals. This is more than just a policy, it’s an attack on freedom and human dignity.
North America
Mental health
Torture
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The research is clear – it’s bad for prison violence, terrible for inmates and poses increased risks for society.
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Minors
Facilities
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California’s three remaining youth prisons closed their reinforced steel doors for good today, marking the demise of what was once the nation’s largest network of youth prisons.
North America
Justice
Facilities
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The state cut incarceration in half, while crime plummeted.
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Activities
Rehabilitation
Work
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Art helped soften Dwayne Burns’ rage while he was inside, as it did for many others. Now outside, he runs a program that helps inmates earn income from their talent.
USA: disaster in prison
Interview
Crises
North America
Facilities
Work
United States
J. Carlee Purdum is the director of the Prisons and Disasters Risk Network, which aims to inform the public about the growing impact of disasters on prisoners. She discusses with us how prison labour is embedded in emergency disaster response. Interview.
North America
Work
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USA: the Holmesburg prison experiments
Interview