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Crisis-hit prisons 'risk breaching rights of inmates'
BBC News· 3 hours agoScottish prisons are in crisis and risk breaching inmates' human rights, according to a new official...
It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThousands of Africans have been forced to join in Russia's war against Ukraine, per Bloomberg. The...
Arrests of Waupun Correctional Institution staff spur dueling rallies outside the prison
Wisconsin State Journal· 2 hours agoFour Waupun Correctional Institution inmates have died in the past year, and the criminal charges...
Inmates challenge motion to dismiss in Alabama forced labor federal lawsuit
Alabama Reflector via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIncarcerated individuals in Alabama have filed a 214-page response opposing a motion to dismiss...
The big-ticket budget cut where Newsom and Democrats are miles apart
Politico· 59 minutes agoPalmer said, however, that Newsom’s proposed $80.6 million cut for CDCR — the result of axing 4,600 ...
HMP Parc: Director steps down at prison where 10 inmates died
BBC News· 6 days agoThe director of a prison where 10 inmates have died in the last three months has stepped down....
Pawns to progress: San Quentin chess event unites prisoners, guards to transform lives
KTVU· 38 minutes agoThe event, dubbed "Pawns to Progress," was sponsored by Mechanics’ Institute...chess club — and San Quentin SkunkWorks — a nonprofit that empowers incarcerated people. The organizations facilitated ...
Advocates say the Justice Department is failing to provide relief to women who were abused in prison
Reason.com· 2 hours agoLast November, federal prosecutors invited Ilene Wahpeta, an incarcerated woman, to give a victim...
Star inmate in Netflix prison documentary Unlocked: A Jail Experiment dies aged 29
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMany of his scenes in the series showed McAllister with his cellmate and confidante, Ty, with whom...
Relatives of inmates who died in Wisconsin prison are shocked guards weren’t charged in their cases...
7 News Miami· 15 hours agoFour inmates have died at Waupun Correctional Institution over the last year. Authorities on...