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The Bureau of Prison’s South Central regional director utilized incarcerated people from a Texas prison to work on a landscaping project at his church.
A high-ranking Federal Bureau of Prisons official used incarcerated people from a Texas prison to provide labor for his church to finish a landscap…
United States of America: hopeless insomnia
Testimonial
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Robert Lee Allen is currently serving his fifth year of a 17 years-sentence. He tells Prison Insider how doing time is a daily battle.
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Drugs
Social ties
Canada
Ion scanners cause stress for families of prisoners, research shows.
Canada : feds aim to replace solitary confinement in prisons with ‘structured intervention units’
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Discipline
Canada
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has tabled a new bill in the House of Commons aimed at ridding Canadian prisons of solitary confinement.
Bill C-83 suggests designating “a penitentiary or an area in a penitentiary as a structured intervention unit for the confinement of inmates who cannot be ma…
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Protest
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Incarcerated Americans are often forced to work for cents an hour. So they’re launching what could be their biggest protest ever.
Global prison trends 2018
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Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.
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France
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Story Of Earl Reinhardt
Portfolio
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Long-term prisoners
Health
Rehabilitation
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Sarah Bones meets Earl, who has spent the past 50 of his 75 years behind bars.
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This story is the seventh in Truthout’s “Visions of 2018” series, in which activist leaders answer the question: “What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?” Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves forward.
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Women
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In a few states, women’s prison populations have even grown enough to counteract reductions in the men’s population.
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Discipline
Canada
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Mental health
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“I don’t agree that it’s society’s fault”.
The Royal should never have accepted an acutely ill inmate like Marlene Carter at its Brockville Mental Health Centre as part of a contract it had with Correctional Service Canada, says retired Conservative Senator Bob Runciman