America
America
North America
Drugs
United States
Jeff Sessions wants a new war on drugs. It won’t work.
America
North America
Protest
United States
A gang revolt at a Florida state prison injured seven corrections officers and one inmate Wednesday morning, authorities said.
America
North America
United States
Attorneys for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate have asked a judge to declare Nebraska’s death penalty unconstitutional.
Concerns over the recently reinstated capital punishment that was repealed in 2015 are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed Monday by Todd Lancaster and Sarah Newe…
America
North America
Discipline
United States
“Segregation is known to be psychologically detrimental to those who are in there for any length of time,” Bruce Busby, the state department’s director of institutions said.
America
North America
Discipline
Canada
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America
North America
Discipline
Canada
Nearly a decade after teenager Ashley Smith died by self-strangulation in a solitary confinement cell, the Liberal government has introduced a bill that would place new restrictions on indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons but falls short of the expectations of some prison-rights advoc…
Forgotten prisoners
Portfolio
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Haiti
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes is a journalist. He comments some pictures he has shot.
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Overcrowding
Honduras
On May 11, 23 prisoners escaped from Honduras’ largest and most overcrowded correctional facility, the Tamara prison. The inmates were part of the “Scorpion” unit, which is reserved for members of the Barrio 18 gang, one of the most powerful and influential gangs in Latin America. Following the esc…
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
A gun battle that raged for hours inside a prison inside northern Mexico has left seven dead and 13 injured, authorities reported on Wednesday.
Continuous automatic gunfire was heard late Tuesday at the prison in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the border state of Tamaulipas.
America
North America
Justice
Drugs
United States
Local authorities revived Smith, arrested him, and then gave him two options: he could go to jail or he could go into treatment. Smith chose treatment—or at least that’s what he thought. What Smith chose, more specifically, was to go through the alternative sentencing program known as drug court, w…
America
North America
United States
The state is hammering out its budget. And lawmakers are having a sharp disagreement with the governor’s office over one of Michigan’s biggest price tags – the corrections budget. Both sides agree rehabilitation and lowering recidivism is the way to go. But they can’t agree on how much money to spe…
America
South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
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America
South America
Torture
Venezuela
After enduring several minutes of beatings with fists and clubs, Erick Izaguirri, 27, was expecting the worst when he was dragged into an outpost of Venezuela’s National Guard.
“They started to say, ‘Take his pants off, let’s stick the rifle in him,’ ” the anti-government protester recounted durin…
America
South America
Protest
Brazil
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America
Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
Organized crime groups control 65 percent of state prisons in Mexico, according to a government report about prison conditions in the country published this week.
America
North America
Health
Suicide
Canada
The number of inmates in federal prisons who intentionally harm themselves has more than tripled over the past decade, spiking again last year, prompting Canada’s correctional investigator to call for changes to ensure such prisoners are treated as patients who require medical care.