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The money cities generate from bail bonds and conviction fines and fees is not enough to be relied upon.
Source — USA Today
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As California prison officials shift toward inmate programs centered on rehabilitation and education, they are evaluating new regulations for awarding time credits for good behavior and reaching milestones.
Source — Los Angeles Times
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United States: prisons and jails are forcing inmates to pay a small fortune just to see a doctor
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Health
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The fees are designed to discourage inmates from seeking care, which could have dangerous consequences.
Source — Huffpost
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Discipline
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As a teenager, Adam Brulotte relished the attention he received from getting into fights at parties. When he was 18 years old, he was arrested for burglary and aggravated assault after punching a man and breaking his jaw in seven places.
Source — Frontline
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Discipline
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When Kenny Moore was convicted of aggravated assault, burglary and theft and sent to Maine State Prison at age 18, he expected to serve an 18-month sentence. But after a series of fights and disruptive behavior, he was sent to solitary confinement, where his disruptive behavior only worsened. All in…
Source — Frontline
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For five years, inmates haven’t even had the opportunity to obtain high school equivalency diplomas at the Lackawanna County Prison in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The GED program was scrapped during a county budgeting crisis in 2012 and has yet to be reinstated.
Source — Huffpost
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Polarizing bill approved in state budget to stop charging 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, sparing teens of criminal records: ‘I lost some years of my life back there’
Source — The Guardian
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Death penalty
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A recent Supreme Court judgment in the US is being hailed as a triumph by death penalty abolition advocates.
Source — Penal Reform International
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A disproportionate number of queer youth, particular lesbians and bisexual girls, end up in jail or prison in the United States, according to a study released today by researchers at UCLA. Worse, those youth are considerably more likely to be raped during their time in custody.
Source — Advocate
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Culture
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More than most artists, the men who gather twice a week for mural class in the B Facility are accustomed to darkness.
But the scene they are creating — a tropical rain forest — requires color and light, elements in short supply at Salinas Valley State Prison.
“I don’t have much of a legacy,” Jeffrey…
Source — NY Times
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Parisien
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Violence
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Sciences et Avenir
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Material conditions
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The 284 women housed in C-dorm at Gadsden Correctional Institution in Quincy lived for months without hot water or heat, faced flooded bathrooms daily and endured water rations when the septic tanks were jammed with food waste.
Source — Orlando Sentinel
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In an era of what seems like unprecedented polarization and rancor, this idea has bipartisan support. The Koch brothers and Black Lives Matter agree. The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Conservative Union Foundation agree. Bernie Sanders and Newt Gingrich agree.
Source — The New York Times
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The prison commander said Sunday he has neither seen nor wants a say on any coming Trump administration executive order that will drive policy on law of war detention here.
“Nobody’s asked for my opinion,” Rear Adm. Peter J. Clarke said at a news conference. A reporter asked the 16th commander of the…
Source — Miami Herald
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — 20 Minutes
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Death penalty
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To hear President Donald Trump and his advisors talk about the US southern border, a person would get the impression that the Obama administration had rolled out the red carpet to welcome anyone and everyone who wanted to enter the country. Echoing a statement Trump made often on the campaign trail,…
Source — Truth Out
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Source — Huffington Post
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Long-term prisoners
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The number of U.S. prisoners serving life sentences has more than quadrupled over the past three decades, and those eligible for parole are waiting longer to be released, according to a report released Tuesday.
Source — The Baltimore Sun
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One of the challenges of the Trump era in America is that we can’t forget about the important issues that aren’t swept up in the daily maelstrom of Trumpworld. On the national stage – and to a certain extent, on the local level as well – a number of important topics seem to have been pushed to the back…
Source — Philly.com
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