Solitary Confinement Imprisonment

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Two Prisoners Should Not Be Forced to Defecate Literally Inches Apart

When solitary confinement stops being solitary for budget reasons.

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Prisons introduce playing cards featuring faces of murder victims to spark new leads

A bold plan to introduce playing cards featuring the faces of murder victims into Adelaide prisons has ‘exceeded’ expectations, authorities have said.

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US: Transgender Women Abused in Immigration Detention

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Why Prisons Should Never Be Privatized

The Justice Policy Institute has just released a report confirming a major concern voiced by critics of private prisons: the likelihood that those...

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Vietnam Jails Prominent Blogger For Anti-State Posts

A court in Hanoi sentenced a prominent Vietnamese blogger to five years in prison after finding him guilty of posting anti-state writings on his two blogs.

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Singapore jails Australian for sedition | IOL

Law student Ai Takagi whose website published made-up stories about foreigners was jailed for 10 months after falling foul on sedition laws.

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Springfield inmates staying in out-of-town jail won't get a ride home

The Springfield City Council voted Monday on plans to send municipal inmates to Miller and Taney counties.

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Don't buy the arguments for reopening Appleton's private prison

Overcrowding in Minnesota’s prisons is the result of legislators’ “tough on crime” actions; media shouldn’t frame the solution in terms of rural economics.

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Performance targets are being used to improve prison reform

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Prisoners protest food under new contractor Trinity

More than 1,000 prisoners stayed in their cells during Monday meals at Kinross Correctional Facility, a spokesman said.

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The parents of a teenager who hanged himself in his cell at a juvenile detention center in Atlanta have settled a federal civil rights lawsuit they filed after his death. Denise Butler and Jimmy Davidson filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in December saying their son, who was identified...

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Former Inmates Sue NY ‘Supermax’ Prison For Traumatizing Treatment

The New York Daily News reports that the Southport Correctional facility near Elmira, NY has shelled out $10 million to prisoners in 175 settlements over the past five years. The lawsuits all share…

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Gateshead prisoner found dead in his cell at HMP Northumberland

Prison bosses launch investigation after a prisoner is found dead in his cell at the problem hit prison over the weekend

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Dutch Authorities May Close Five More Prisons Due to Lack of Criminals

The Dutch authorities are aiming to reduce the cost of hundreds of empty prison cells by closing the prisons, according to Justice Minister Ard van der Steur.

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Hunter’s jail to be biggest in state

A Baird government proposal would see the Cessnock Correctional Complex expand by 620 beds.

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AUSTRALIANS are keen travellers, but we’re not always on our best behaviour when abroad — and that includes falling foul of the law.