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Appeals court: Mentally ill prisoner held in solitary confinement for months can sue MDOC
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoLANSING — Michigan Department of Corrections officials can be sued for apparently violating their own rules by placing a seriously mentally ill prisoner in solitary
Texas prisons are hell on Earth
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoThis veritable inferno is solitary confinement in Texas — bathroom-sized cells of isolation where the condemned spend 22 to 24 hours a day. More people...
Serial killer Robert Pickton in life-threatening condition after prison attack
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoConvicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton is in life-threatening condition after being...
Serial killer who bragged about slaying dozens of women brutally attacked in prison
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoRobert Pickton, a Canadian serial killer, is in hospital on life support after he was attacked by...
Leaked changes to Limitations Act don't apply to Jack Whalen's abuse case, lawyers say
CBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJack Whalen thought he'd scored a victory when the Newfoundland and Labrador government promised to...
Peter Gabriel on Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi: ‘This is Barbaric and Must Stop’ - SPIN
Spin· 1 day agoOn Thursday May 16, Peter Gabriel posted a picture of imprisoned Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who...
Israeli teachers who criticize the war have been yanked from the classroom — and thrown in jail
The Forward· 2 days agoSabreen Msarwi lost her job teaching Arabic at a middle school in Ganei Tikva last week after...
South Africa elections: A guide and everything you need to know | CNN
CNN.com· 2 days agoSouth Africans go to the polls on May 29 for what will likely be the most pivotal general election...
Death penalty sought again for 88-year-old in Japan murder saga
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJapanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who...
'I had grown up in prison': Former inmates talk impact of adult justice system on youth
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"It is something that is pervasive in our community right now," said Jessica Yeary, the elected...