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Convert or get hurt: How Islamist gangs are terrorising staff in high-security prisons and forcing non-Muslim inmates to join their ranks for 'protection' as the authoritie…
For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is ...
Inside CECOT, El Salvador's notorious prison, where inmates never see the light of day
The Salvadoran prison, where Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held, keeps inmates tightly confined with little ...
Recent cases against ex-guards provide a rare view of the disorder and violence plaguing Philly’s jails
The trial of former Corrections Officer Ivory Cousins showed how the tenuous situation in Philly's overcrowded jails can ...
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Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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Inmate dies while in custody at Orange County jail facility
Orange County authorities are investigating after an inmate died inside ... Deputies and jail staff attempted life-saving measures after discovering the inmate alone in his cell, officials said.
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28-year-old inmate found dead inside cell at Maryland's Eastern Correctional Institute
(7News) — Maryland State Police (MSP) are investigating the death of a 28-year-old inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institute in Somerset County after he was found unresponsive in his cell on ...
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Lisette’s Brother Is in Prison
Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter ... The strike left thousands of prisoners locked for weeks inside cold cells, cut off from food, showers, medicine, visits.
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The Strike That Broke a Supermax Prison
The only regular time out of a cell was for ... Strike to tell the inside story of a group of men who overcame bitter divisions and harsh conditions to build an improbable prison resistance ...
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Video shows inmate being tased and tackled days before he was found dead in his jail cell
This story started a couple of years ago when a man was taken to jail in Huerfano County after experiencing what an attorney described as a mental health crisis. FOX31 is told he was taken to the ...
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Inside the new super-prison where inmates choose their cell block names
A new £400 million super-prison has opened where inmates will be able to choose the names of their cell blocks and get a say in how it is run. HMP Millsike, in north Yorkshire, has also adopted a ...
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I went inside England's newest prison and saw the 'warm truffle' and pool table
Inside F-block, one of the six housing cells, they will be able to enjoy a pool table, table football, and table tennis. The layout of the block – effectively a cross – is such that prison ...
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A man died after being hurt then neglected for a week in a Colorado jail, family says
A 69-year-old man slowly suffocated to death in a rural Colorado jail after his ribs were broken in an altercation with a deputy and he languished in a cell for a week without medical care ...