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The economic toll of incarceration in the U.S. tops $1 trillion, and more than half of that falls on the families and communities of the people incarcerated, according to a recent study by Washington University researchers.
“For every dollar in corrections spending, there’s another 10 dollars of other…
Source — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Part of the philosophy for creating a separate juvenile-justice system in the United States is the idea that the state can act as a parent, or parens patriae—protector, caretaker, disciplinarian—when a young person fails to respect the rights of others, commits petty or serious crimes, or shirks age-based…
Source — The Atlantic
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Le ministère de la Défense américain a annoncé ce jeudi 8 septembre la fermeture d’un des camps de détention de Guantanamo. Le camp 5, qui comprenait 100 cellules, sera reconverti en hôpital. 8 millions et demi de dollars seront investis pour cette transformation dans l’année à venir. A quatre mois de…
Source — RFI
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Across 24 states, inmates are sick of poisoned water, solitary confinement, and forced labor.
This September 9, we may witness the largest prison strike in US history. Potentially thousands of inmates across both state and federal prisons in as many as 24 states plan to engage in a coordinated strike…
Source — The Nation
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Cosas tan simples como un cigarrillo, un chicle o una sopa instantánea son la “moneda” de los reos ante las limitantes de artículos personales y el rechazo a la comida de los penales.
Esto es lo que afirman algunos presos paseños y el reciente estudio de un sociólogo de la Universidad de Arizona que…
Source — El Diario de El Paso
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RICHMOND — Inmates died nearly nine times more often in custody at Hampton Roads Regional Jail than at other local or regional jails in Virginia during the past three years, according to an analysis of statistics from two state agencies.
Since June 2013, 12 of the 6,716 inmates who have been locked up…
Source — The Roanoke Times
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Last Thursday, private prison stocks dropped like a rock when the Department of Justice announced that it would be phasing out its use of for-profit detention facilities. If you were an investor who had no ethical qualms about profiting from an industry that’s been accused of perpetrating a number of…
Source — The Nation
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Le ministère américain de la justice a annoncé, vendredi 18 août, vouloir mettre fin au recours par l’Etat fédéral aux prisons privées. Cette décision se traduira par le non-renouvellement des contrats arrivant à leur terme signés avec des entreprises gérant des prisons.
Source — Le Monde
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In Kentucky, a judge was outraged after a female inmate was brought into her courtroom without pants on, having been denied access to female hygiene products for days. Advocates explain how our prison system is failing women.
Appearing in a courtroom in only your underwear is more commonly the stuff…
Source — Vice
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Depriving people of condoms and medications puts everyone at risk.
Some countries do make condoms available to prisoners, while others cite security issues, or blanket prohibitions of sex. Only last year, California became the second state to require that condoms be available to all prisoners. Even in…
Source — The Atlantic
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Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet.
Nestled in the hills of Letcher County, Kentucky, the Lilley Cornett Woods are a sea of biodiversity. The 554 acres are home to over 530 species of flowering plants and the endangered…
Source — In these times
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In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the BOP’s privately run prisons from 1998 to 2014 in the wake of inadequate medical care. An examination of thousands of pages of previously unreleased files revealed that gravely ill prisoners had been left untreated, or relegated to the…
Source — The Nation
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USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find
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After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties.
Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county jails…
Source — Washington Post
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Human Right Watch (HRW) a reccueilli les témoignages d’anciens détenus précedemment incarcérés dans des prisons de la Louisiane (sud des États-Unis), sur la dangereuse absence de soins en matière de VIH.
HRW a publié à ce sujet un rapport émettant plusieurs recommandations afin de réformer ce système…
Source — News 360
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