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Kyle H. has been incarcerated since 2001 and is serving a life sentence. He is held at River North Correctional Center in the state of Virginia. He bravely tells how an ordinary day goes by, when voices cannot stop, and when he becomes a stranger to himself.
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“I am forced to make a choice on what’s more important, my freedom or my health,” Ortega said.
Source — The 19th News
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California’s prison system has taken drastic measures to combat the coronavirus, halting rehab programs, religious services and educational classes. But correctional authorities kept one type of operation running through much of the last six months: prison factories.
Source — Los Angeles Times
Read more Estados Unidos: la paradoja de la pena de muerte
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As record-shattering wildfires rage throughout California, the state’s incarcerated population is doing the backbreaking work at the front lines. They plow fire lines and battle blazes, for $1 an hour, plus reduced prison time—a program that saves the state tens of millions of dollars annually. While…
Source — The Appeal
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued notice on February 5, 2020 that it has found the “totality of the conditions, practices, and incidents” it discovered at Broad River Road Complex (BRRC), South Carolina’s long-term juvenile commitment facility, violated the juveniles’ Fourteenth Amendment rights.
After…
Source — Prison legal news
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Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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A California assemblymember said nearly $200 million in operating costs will be saved after the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) announcement on Friday of the closure of a state prison in Tracy.
The Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy was chosen for closure based on…
Source — CBS Sacramento
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“The incarceration of human beings for profit is immoral.”
These are the words that Richard Burgon, the spokesperson for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, used to describe the fundamental problem with private prisons.
While many regard criminal justice as a function of the state alone, private…
Source — HIR
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After nearly flattening for about three months, positive coronavirus tests in Wisconsin prisons are back on the rise at rates worse than ever.
More than 600 inmates in state-run prisons tested positive for coronavirus in the past month, bringing the total to 953 since the beginning of the pandemic. Further,…
Source — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Read more Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE
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United States: the expensive burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison
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When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn’t realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the “invisible shackle” of probation.
Source — USA today
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Kentucky State law allows county jails to charge prisoners a daily fee during their stay while fighting their case. But what happens when the person is found not guilty of the charges and gets released? According to a February 14, 2020 ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, even if the state throws…
Source — Prison Legal News
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Prisons and jails are rolling back free phone and video calls. They should be extending them instead
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Amidst a pandemic and recession, policymakers should be fighting for extended — if not permanent — financial relief for incarcerated people and their families.
Source — Prison Policy Initiative
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Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.
Source — The Appeal
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Mapping the 'Blind Spots'
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CartONG and Planète Réfugiés-Droits de l’Homme (PRDH) united since September 2019 to create maps aimed at raising awareness about the situation of people on death row worldwide. Nine maps have been produced to date. On March 8th, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the two organisations…
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Randall Jordan-Aparo, Darren Rainey and Latandra Ellington are not household names. But like Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, they were killed by law enforcement officers.
Source — The Conversation
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State and federal head counts have dropped 8%, largely because prisons are not accepting new inmates and many courts are closed.
Source — The Guardian
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USA: Inmates talk of COVID fear and helplessness after transfers bring ‘the beast’ to San Quentin
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Sixty-six inmates from the coronavirus-ridden California Institution for Men were on buses in late May, headed from Chino to the prison at Corcoran where Frank Estrada was incarcerated.
Source — LA Times
Read more USA: après des SOS lancés par des détenus, une prison recouvre les fenêtres
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White people in Alabama prisons were 2.6 times more likely to be paroled than Black people during the month of June, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
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Corrections centers are stocking up on electronic monitors as they release prisoners due to Covid-19.
Source — Bloomberg
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The move clears the way for the executions of four men in the coming months after a 17-year gap during which no inmate on death row for federal crimes was put to death.
Source — Le Monde
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The class action complaint details subpar hygiene protocols, lack of proper healthcare, and more at Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman
Source — Traxmag
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