United States of America
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United States of America: counting prison inmates differently could shift political power to cities
A prison in Vacaville, California. After the 2020 census, California and Delaware will join New York and Maryland in counting prisoners in their home communities rather than in the place where they are incarcerated.USA: thousands held in NY's prisons will spend the holidays in solitary confinement
Roger Clark still remembers Christmas in solitary confinement. Clark spent five years at Southport Correctional Facility, New York’s first supermax prison dedicated to 23-hour lockdown, after defending himself from another prisoner’s assault.USA: a poacher who killed hundreds of deer was sentenced to repeatedly watch ‘Bambi’
Authorities have no idea how many deer the Berry family and their associates illegally killed in the fields and forests of southern Missouri over the past decade, but the details of their poaching operation would make any animal lover’s stomach turn.United States: report condemns australian prison for forcing woman to give birth alone in cell
Sometime around 6:30 p.m. on March 11, a pregnant woman locked in an Australian maximum security prison cell began crying out for help. For more than an hour she wailed in pain, pleading for someone to intervene. She was 36 weeks pregnant and the child was about four weeks too early.USA: mold ‘rampant’ at former southern Illinois prison
A shuttered southern Illinois prison is infested with mold, dimming area residents’ hopes it may someday reopen. The Southern Illinoisan reports an inspection of the former Tamms Correctional Center found high levels of two types of mold that cause health issues, including respiratory illnesses. Th…USA: could a new $444 million Kentucky prison get held up by inmates worried about bats, wetlands?
Lawyers from Pittsburgh and New Orleans, along with 21 federal convicts spread out in prisons across the United States, have filed suit against the government to stop the construction of a federal prison in Letcher County.USA: to lower prison health-care costs, Maryland is trying to serve healthier food
Not long after taking over as warden of the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Margaret M. Chippendale noticed a sizable problem: Women were leaving the system a lot heavier than when they arrived.United States. : American prisons are hell. For women, they’re even worse [video]
The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country–over two million. Roughly 200,000 of them are female. But existing American prisons are often ill-equipped to handle the specific needs of women and girls. Amna Nawaz talks to Andrea James, a lawyer and former federal inmate who founded the N…