News November 27, 2017 Etats-Unis : voici les œuvres d'art des détenus de Guantánamo, dont ils sont maintenant privés This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News November 24, 2017 USA: in prison, women are nine times more likely to be HIV-positive The disparity between infection rates in incarcerated and non-incarcerated women highlights the deeply unequal state of our criminal-justice system.
News November 9, 2017 USA: the unique sexual harassment problem female prison workers face When women report abuse from the men in their custody : “ One male captain made her so uncomfortable she avoided him. But the worst abuse came from inmates“
News November 8, 2017 USA: Frackville prison’s systemic water crisis On September 19, 21, 24 and 27, 2017, we prisoners at Pennsylvania’s SCI-Frackville facility experienced four incidences with respect to the crisis of drinking toxic water.
News November 8, 2017 USA: updates on resisting the BOP’s toxic prison in Letcher county Last week, on September 29, 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons BOP closed the public comment period on it’s “Final Supplemental Revised Environmental Impacts Statement.”
News November 8, 2017 USA: hunger strikes breaking out in jails and detention centers In the last week, we’ve seen a successful hunger strike take place at a detention facility in Northern Oregon, and another pop off at a prison in Indiana.
News October 25, 2017 États-Unis : le gouvernement Trump veut empêcher une mineure sans-papier d'avorter en détention This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News October 24, 2017 Estados Unidos : video revela abusos en cárceles de inmigración This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
News October 22, 2017 USA: "You're Still in Jail" How Electronic Monitoring Is a Shackle on the Movement for Decarceration.
News October 18, 2017 USA: a long decline in executions takes a detour Recent court rulings and start-stop access to lethal drugs push numbers up this year.
News October 17, 2017 USA: federal prisons don’t even try to rehabilitate the undocumented The Bureau of Prisons fails to provide basic resources to undocumented prisoners.
News October 14, 2017 Etats-Unis : un homme condamné par erreur a été libéré après 23 ans en prison This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News October 14, 2017 USA: California inmates help battle raging wildfires Prisoners from the McCain inmate crew from San Diego clear brush from a road this week in Calistoga, California.
News October 10, 2017 USA : violence and humiliation in Alaska On September 19, 2017, the Office of the Ombudsman of Alaska (United States) released a report on a complaint filed about a 2013 incident.
News September 27, 2017 USA: House Dem introduces bill to incentivize states to reduce prison populations A House Democrat has introduced a criminal justice reform bill in the House would create 20$ billion to incentivize states to reduce the nation’s mass incarceration.
News September 26, 2017 USA: ICE violates own policy by locking up pregnant women, complaint alleges Lawyers in South Texas say they noticed the change about two months ago: More pregnant women were being held for weeks in detention centers run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
News September 20, 2017 USA: after hurricane Irma, as keys recover, inmates moved to Palm Beach More than 460 of those evacuees were inmates from the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island, the first island north of Key West. Those inmates, as well as dozens of jail staff, rode out the storm at the Palm Beach County Jail.
News September 20, 2017 USA: prison isn’t the solution for mentally ill criminals On Monday, I was in a criminal courtroom at the Prince George’s County District Court for a journalism assignment Monday. In front of me stood a balding man in a casual black top.
News September 20, 2017 USA: inmate sues Kansas prison for "imposing christian propaganda" Shari Webber-Dunn, an inmate serving a murder charge in Kansas, said her First Amendment rights were violated by “Christian propaganda” imposed by the all-female prison.
News September 20, 2017 USA: why Oklahoma’s female incarceration is so high Robyn Allen saw her daughter for the first time in two years from across the yard of Oklahoma’s largest women’s prison, the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center.
News September 14, 2017 USA: I can’t visit my sons in prison because I have unpaid traffic tickets A mother with debts — and cancer — wonders if she’ll ever see her incarcerated children again.
News September 9, 2017 USA: is there a constitutional right to cash in on the Poor? They elect local judges in Craighead County, Arkansas, and two men decided two years ago to run for the bench there with a clear mission statement: if elected they would rein in a private probation company called The Justice Network and the local judge and prosecutor they said had countenanced its…
News September 9, 2017 USA: trapped in Irma’s path As Florida state and local officials urge South Florida residents to evacuate before Hurricane Irma makes landfall there Sunday morning, nearly 4,500 inmates inside facilities in evacuation zones have not been moved.
News September 8, 2017 USA: weathering a hurricane in prison Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have prompted mass evacuations in Texas and Florida. But many Americans have been unable to flee, including huge numbers of prison inmates. The two states together are home to a quarter million incarcerated people. Texas has the largest prison population in the country, a…