A sessions court in Kerala on Monday sentenced to life 25 persons, all workers of IUML, for the murder of two brothers in Palakkad district of the state in 2013.Additional District and Sessions Judge Rajitha T H had on May 12 held the 25 accused guilty fo...
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Boing Boing a un post (via Mariano) sur d'éventuels viols de garçons et de filles (10, 12, 15 et 18 ans) dans la prison d'Abu Ghraib.Les choses se corsent un peu si l'on considère que le gouvernement le savait depuis le début et que probabl...
The Trump administration has executed 10 people since mid-July — the most federal executions carried out in a year since 1896. The Trump Justice Department is so intent on keeping secret the identities of those involved in the process that they hired priv...
At least two men on federal death row have tested positive for COVID-19. The Trump administration's decision to move forward with executions during the pandemic has been roundly criticized by lawyers and public health experts.Bryan Woolston / Reuters...
The sun sets at Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women on Dec.15, 2020. A coronavirus outbreak began at the facility on Dec. 10, 2020.Colby Rabon/Carolina Public PressThis piece is reprinted from Carolina Public Press. After 11 months of litigation, the ...
As a public defender, I have seen firsthand the unspeakable abuses that those incarcerated in the United States are forced to endure. This group includes those convicted of crimes and pretrial detainees who are presumed innocent.Fortunately, you neednt be...
Though none of us would like to spend any length of time incarcerated in one, certain prisons (like Alcatraz) have always held a sort of mystique for us. Whether its the foreboding nature of their construction or the daring and unbelievable escapes which ...
The coronavirus pandemic has already left a trail of destruction inside America’s jails and prisons.Since the onset, at least 414,500 people incarcerated in U.S. prisons have contracted COVID-19 and at least 2,556 have died from it. We don’t know these nu...
Keeping prisoners of war is a fairly new practice. Prior to the Hundred Years War between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries, armies killed enemy prisoners of war or just turned them into slaves. Richer or more valuable prisoners of war wer...
The Incarcerated Are Eligible for Stimulus Checks. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Danny Davis Want to Kno
The Incarcerated Are Eligible for Stimulus Checks. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Danny Davis Want to Kno
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Congress has given only one stimulus check to help Americans weather the public health crisis and its ensuing economic downturn.For many households, that $1,200 check has long since been spent, as mon...
There’s something about the power of euphemism: you call someone a “prisoner” or an “inmate” and, suddenly, all sorts of dehumanizing, terrible, violent things that would be unfathomable to subject a “regular” person to become possible. Become necessary. ...
An Arizona Prisoner Was Sent a Book Critical of the Criminal Justice System. Now, the State Has Bann
An Arizona Prisoner Was Sent a Book Critical of the Criminal Justice System. Now, the State Has Bann
In one of the most memorable passages of his seminal autobiography, civil rights leader Malcolm X made explicit the impact his in-prison education had on him. Arrested on charges of larceny and sentenced to 10 years in prison, Malcolm read voraciously.“I ...
The whole point of the “feeling cute” challenge was to have a little fun while on the job—or at least, while in your work clothes. But corrections officers who partook in the challenge earlier this month are now resigning or being fired from said jobs aft...
In Mississippi, five inmates have been killed due to stabbings and attacks within the past week.NBC News reported on Friday that 36-year-old Denorris Howell died after sustaining neck wounds in a fatal attack following an altercation with his cellmate at ...
Following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, the sociopolitical doctrine of communism claimed its first state. Despite a massive military intervention in 1918 which featured soldiers and sailors from the British Empire, the United States, France,...
Supposedly, prisons are built for punishment and rehabilitation. Unfortunately, as we are about to find out, this is not always so. In corrupt countries, only poor prisoners end up getting punished. The richer ones just pay their way through, living in fu...
Every day, Richard Lee Chalk prays that he’ll be let out of prison. He applied for clemency five months ago and now that there’s a coronavirus outbreak, going home is even more urgent. The 61-year-old has a heart condition and Type 2 diabetes, which means...
Prisons are all about keeping people inside, but every now and again, folks find their way out. It happens more often than you might think, but nevertheless, there are some institutions touted as being inescapable, such that there is no conceivable way fo...
Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Earlier this year, Andrea Circle Bear was sentenced to 26 months in prison on a drug charge. She went into federal custody on March 20, at a time when a number of states had already issued stay-at-home ...
At Lakeland Correctional Facility, about 57% of some1,400 prisoners have tested positive for the coronavirus.Carlos Osorio/ASSOCIATED PRESSMichigan’s aging prisoners serve the final years of life sentences at the state’s Lakeland Correctional Facility. In...
