United States
United States
The women’s wing of the jail here exhales sadness. The inmates, wearing identical orange uniforms, ache as they undergo withdrawal from drugs, as they eye one another suspiciously, and as they while away the days stripped of freedom, dignity, privacy and, most painful of all, their children.
Source — NY Times
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Source — Courrier International
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Etats-Unis : Pour les plus anciens détenus américains en cellule d’isolement, le combat continue
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Discipline
United States
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Source — Le Monde
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As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to deport up to 3 million people, an investigation of immigrant detention centers in the South has found that detainees are routinely denied their due process rights and frequently endure inhumane conditions in isolated facilities that have little oversight…
Source — Southern Poverty Law Center
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Women
Discipline
Violence
United States
Inmates at Illinois’ major women’s prison have been called “crazy” and “worthless” by corrections officers, are sometimes placed in an unpadded open-bar “crisis cage” and receive harsher discipline than men for similar offenses, a study released Friday says.
Source — Associated Press
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Kings realized that such shared pain was no coincidence: her community had been targeted. “I knew I had a brother in jail, but I never thought about mass incarceration as systemic and how that had not just impacted me, but impacted millions of people,” King says.
“Why were there drug-sniffing dogs…
Source — The Atlantic
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“I’m not going to discuss how I ended up in the criminal-justice system,” Lettisha Boyd tells me.“I did end up there—I guess that’s the biggest thing.“ Boyd, now 41, was sent to a prison in New York state more than two decades ago for a felony conviction received one month before her 19th birthday.…
Source — The Atlantic
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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 brot…
Source — The Atlantic
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Over 5 million kids in the United States currently have or have had a parent in prison. That works out to about one in 14 American children—a majority of whom are under age 10. Broken down by state, children with incarcerated parents can represent 3 to 13 percent of the population, according to “A…
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 pr…
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…
Source — Charlotte Observer
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Death penalty
Violence
United States
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Source — L'Express
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Maroc et Sahara occidental : prison pour une vingtaine de paysans après des violences avec la police
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Africa
Violence
United States
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Source — L'Orient Le Jour
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Mumia Abu Jamal
Testimonial
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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 h…
Source — The Telegraph
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Death penalty
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United States
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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 solel…
Source — VICE
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Protest
United States
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 repu…
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 doo…
Source — Los Angeles Times
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