Norwegian Mass Killer Wins Human Rights Case Over Prison Conditions
Anders Breivik — the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011 — has been treated inhumanely in prison, a Norwegian court says.
View ArticleThousands Leave Maryland Prisons With Health Problems And No Coverage
Maryland's prisons and jails release thousands of inmates each year without helping them enroll in Medicaid, jeopardizing their health and putting communities at greater risk.
View ArticleTraining Helps Inmates Build A Bridge To Life Outside Prison Walls
Loretta Lynch made her first visit to a federal prison as the nation's top law enforcement officer. She highlighted the need for more services to help inmates re-enter society.
View Article'El Chapo' Extradition To U.S. May Proceed, Mexican Judge Says
Two days after Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was transferred to a prison near Juárez, Mexico, a city near the U.S. border, a federal judge in Mexico said the extradition process meets legal requirements.
View ArticleWhen Time Behind Bars Cuts Addiction Treatment Short
Most inmates lose access to medication-assisted treatment for addiction once they're incarcerated. Among prisons and jails that do offer such treatment, it's often restricted to pregnant women.
View ArticleZimbabwe Pardons Thousands Of Prisoners Because Of Overcrowding, Food Shortages
The move by President Robert Mugabe has reportedly emptied one women's prison of all but two inmates serving life sentences. All juveniles are said to have been pardoned.
View ArticleInvisibilia: Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are?
A man committed a horrible crime. Then he decided he no longer wanted to be a bad person. It is possible to change our personalities, psychologists say, even though we like to think they're innate.
View ArticleTo Help A Criminal Go Straight, Help Him Change How He Thinks
More than half of prisoners released from prison are rearrested within a year. Cognitive therapy can help prisoners change the thinking that gets them in trouble, like "I'll never back down."
View ArticleDisturbing Images Surface Of Juvenile Prisoners Being Abused In Australia
Australia's prime minister asked for an investigation into how teenage prisoners are treated after a national news program broadcast video of young people hooded and shackled.
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Investigation Into Private Prisons Reveals Crowding, Under-Staffing And...
Seth Freed Wessler reported on substandard medical care in privately-run prisons in the federal corrections system for The Nation, which may have led the Justice Department to phase out their use.
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From Homemade Weapons To Inmate Art, An Inside Look At Life Behind Bars
The Texas Prison Museum displays wooden guns that look real, shanks made from spoons and a chess set carved from soap. The item that gets the most attention? An electric chair nicknamed Old Sparky.
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From Mobb Deep Rapper, A Cookbook For Healthy Eating — In Prison
Behind bars, it takes ingenuity, other prisoners and a little help from the commissary to approximate a proper diet. That's what rapper Prodigy of hip-hop's Mobb Deep learned after going to prison.
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Reports Of Prison Guard Brutality In New York Draw A Harsh Spotlight
A rash of incidents involving guards' use of violence against prisoners, sometimes caught on video, is fueling calls for accountability. Others say the focus should be on increasingly violent inmates.
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37 Civil Rights Groups Seek Investigation Into 'Torture' At Lewisburg Prison
They are asking the Department of Justice for action after NPR and The Marshall Project "uncovered harrowing allegations of abuse and torture" inside the prison.(Image credit: Google Earth)
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Alabama's Prison System Goes On Trial
A trial starts Monday over conditions in Alabama's prisons. Mentally ill inmates say they're denied basic care. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is conducting a civil rights probe into the...
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Signed Out Of Prison But Not Signed Up For Health Insurance
Most of the state prison systems in the places that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare have come up short on enrolling exiting inmates, despite the fact that many of them are chronically ill.(Image...
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After Prison, A Mom Finds Her Way Back Into Her Daughter's Life
As a teenager, Kayla Wilson talked to her grandma about her mom's incarceration in 2006. Now an adult, she and her mom discuss those days and how the experience changed them.(Image credit: Morgan...
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Dozens Of Inmates Killed In Another Brazilian Prison Riot
At least 33 inmates were killed early Friday, according to officials. The riot follows on the heels of a massacre at a different prison last weekend, in which at least 56 prisoners died.(Image credit:...
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After Inmate With Schizophrenia Dies In Shower, Fla. Prosecutor Finds No...
Four years after Darren Rainey died in a prison shower, the Miami-Dade prosecutor decided against charging any officers. Since the 1960s, the mentally ill have increasingly been housed in...
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Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward
Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.(Image...
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