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What happens when the only life you’ve known has been in an institution?
“The only photograph I had of her, growing up, is from a scrapbook from a social worker,” Shelton McElroy says about his mother, “from a visitation that we had at a women’s prison called Pewee Valley.” Shelton and his two brothers…
Source — The Atlantic
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Health
Mental health
Violence
United States
Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American
prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees.
Dr. Rosecrans, now retired from the Navy, led one of the mental health teams assigned to care for detainees at the island prison over the past 15 years. Some prisoners…
Source — New York Times
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Discipline
United States
In North Carolina’s prisons, about half a dozen inmates have been in solitary confinement for more than a decade.
But the state doesn’t want you to know who they are.
State officials say they’ve been working to reduce their use of the punishment as awareness grows about the dangerous psychological effects…
Source — Charlotte Observer
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Death penalty
Violence
United States
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — L'Express
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Maroc et Sahara occidental : prison pour une vingtaine de paysans après des violences avec la police
News
Africa
Violence
United States
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — L'Orient Le Jour
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Mumia Abu Jamal
Testimonial
United States
79-year-old who has spent most of his life in a Philadelphia prison has turned down the chance of parole, claiming he should be released outright without any future supervision.
The Philadelphia Inquirer examined the case of Joseph Ligon, who has been in prison since the age of 15, reporting that he…
Source — The Telegraph
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Death penalty
Violence
United States
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — ECPM
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United States
Every year, countless reports on how to make prisons more rehabilitative are published by think tanks, scholars, and advocates. Some of them rely on interviews with prisoners, while others focus on data and documents. But a new report on how Texas prisons can improve is unique: It was written solely…
Source — VICE
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Protest
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Tens of thousands of prisoners across the country withheld their labor – for which they are paid as little as 17 cents an hour – in support of inmates’ rights.
Richard Castillo has not yet been convicted of the crime – evading police in a vehicle – of which he stands accused.
Source — The Guardian
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Violence
United States
A former guard and a pastor at Holman prison speak of stabbings, riots and abuse, aggravated by overcrowding and slim staff that live in fear.
People inside call it the Slaughter Pen.
The horrors of Holman penitentiary in southern Alabama – the stabbings, riots, fires, abuse – have earned it a reputation…
Source — The Guardian
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Discipline
United States
Hundreds of prisoners live in solitary confinement in Los Angeles County jails. On average, they spend at least one year in a cell the size of a wheelchair-accessible bathroom stall, leaving only a few times a week, one at a time, for showers or exercise. Meals arrive through a slot in the cell door.…
Source — Los Angeles Times
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United States
The private prison industry is lobbying against a Justice Department directive to end the use of their facilities, encouraging legislators to question the policy change and legally protesting one significant contract reduction.
The moves by the GEO Group and others demonstrate the practical and political…
Source — Washington Post
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Torture
United States
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Source — Courrier International & New York Times
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United States
Certains condamnés peuvent choisir de purger leur peine dans une prison municipale plus confortable que celle du comté. À condition de payer…
(…) En Californie, certains individus ont le droit – avec l’aval du juge – de choisir le lieu de leur détention. Ils peuvent décider d’aller dans l’établissement…
Source — Le Point
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In nearly three years, Dominic Walker rarely looked another human being in the eye.
Except for showers, he left his cell at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles only once a week, to exercise in a small cage resembling a dog kennel. His conversations were typically shouted through cell bars to other…
Source — Los Angeles Times
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USA : how one inmate discovered his private prison was ripping him off—and took his warden to court
News
United States
Thousands of inmates file lawsuits against their prison every year. Most who sue without a lawyer are unceremoniously dismissed without much legal back-and-forth.
Michael Leatherwood, an inmate in a private prison in Oklahoma, is an exception. He’s gotten notably further with his lawsuit, which alleges…
Source — Fusion
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Justice
United States
For 126 federal inmates who received presidential clemency last month, the good news might have come with a dose of disappointment.
President Obama had granted their requests for commutations, using his constitutional pardon power to shorten their sentences for drug offenses. But instead of releasing…
Source — USA Today
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In recent years, the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform has been fueled in large part by the astronomical price tag that comes with mass incarceration. Locking people up in federal, state, and local correctional facilities costs the government a whopping $80 billion, and taxpayers end up footing…
Source — Think Progress
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In recent years, the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform has been fueled in large part by the astronomical price tag that comes with mass incarceration. Locking people up in federal, state, and local correctional facilities costs the government a whopping $80 billion, and taxpayers end up footing…
Source — Think Progress
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États-Unis : harcelée en prison, Chelsea Manning en grève de la faim pour défendre se transsexualité
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LGBTI
United States
Afin d’obtenir les soins hormonaux nécessaires à son changement de sexe comme obtenu en justice, Chelsea Manning, incarcérée pour son rôle dans la révélation du scandale WikiLeaks, a annoncé ce samedi qu’elle arrêtait de se nourrir.
“Je ne demande rien d’autre que la dignité et le respect”. Tels sont…
Source — LCI
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