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‘A Living Death’: Thousands Serving Life In Prison For Nonviolent Offenses
(Photo/my_southborough via Flickr) At least 3,278 people in the United States, a majority of them black, are serving life in prison for nonviolent convictions in a system where mandatory minimum laws...
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Death Row Inmate’s Wish To Donate Organs To His Family Raises Ethical Questions
(Photo/Justin Gurbisz via Flickr) Less than a day before child killer Ronald Phillips was set to die by lethal injection, Republican Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday postponed the execution so that...
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How Bureaucrats Stand In The Way Of Releasing Elderly And Ill Prisoners
Debbie Coluter, a certified nurses assistant, assists an elderly inmate, with Alzheimers Disease, to his cell at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif., Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Older...
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Texas Finds New Execution Drug Supply
Habi Jawad holds up his signs to protest the execution of Kimberly McCarthy on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit, where the death chamber is...
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With Inmates Locked Up, Jail Gas Blast Cause Is Focus
Damage to the Escambia County Jail is seen after an explosion in the facility Thursday, May 1, 2014, in Pensacola, Fla. Two inmates were killed and more than 100 others were injured in the explosion...
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Demonstrators Rally Against Wisconsin’s Broken Prison System
(Photo/my_southborouh via Flickr) More than 100 religious leaders and prison reform advocates gathered outside the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility on Wednesday to urge the state to correct flaws in...
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Police Officer Jailed For Forcing Sex On Inmates
Mugshot of Jerry Peek courtesy Washoe County Jail. Jerry Peek, a former Lyon County (NV) Sheriff’s Office employee, is now caged. After rumors that he was sleeping with those caged at the Lyon County...
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Texas Prison Objects To Ruling That It Must Provide Arsenic-Free Water To...
A prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail. A federal judge is ordering Texas prison officials to stop forcing inmates to drink water laced with dangerous levels of...
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Media Silent As U.S. Prisoners Continue To Hunger Strike Abysmal Conditions
On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was found sprawled unconscious on the floor of his cell in Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at...
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It is the height of California’s dangerous forest fire season. But despite blazes currently raging, the state’s fire department is dangerously understaffed. That is because many firefighters today are...
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