• AP) - Solitary confinement conditions in a Pennsylvania state prison are unconstitutional, worsening and creating mental illness in those held there, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of five inmates who say they have spent long periods in "torturous. (ap.org)
  • Its main purpose, according to the AFC, is to reduce manpower costs in prisons and to make a safer environment for both inmates and those that guard them. (neatorama.com)
  • RFE/RL visited the Sliven prison for women where around 400 inmates live in what appears to be a relatively clean if Spartan environment. (rferl.org)
  • Fights amongst them are not uncommon but prison officials, inmates told RFE/RL, do not use violence. (rferl.org)
  • MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Justice Department said Wednesday that Alabama is violating the Constitution by failing to protect prison inmates from violence and sexual abuse and housing them in unsafe, overcrowded facilities. (foxnews.com)
  • The report lays out in stark detail a culture of violence across the state's 13 prisons for men, which together house roughly 16,000 inmates in among the nation's most overcrowded conditions. (foxnews.com)
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press photos from someone inside an Alabama prison that showed inmates stabbed and bloody or dead in their cells. (foxnews.com)
  • Alabama's prisons also have a high suicide rate, and a federal judge in 2017 ruled that the state has provided "horrendously inadequate" care to mentally ill inmates. (foxnews.com)
  • The Cell Furniture project sees product design students at London's Central Saint Martins create flexible furniture for prisons , which will be made by the inmates. (dezeen.com)
  • In Summer Heights Correctional Facility, the government are using the prison to experiment on the inmates. (steampowered.com)
  • As the prison population has been pushed to the brink the government have been pitting inmates against each other as apart of a psychological observation know as The Prison Experiment. (steampowered.com)
  • Will you build and manage a prison to create social order where it's failed in the past, offering rehabilitation and peaceful coexistence amongst inmates? (playstation.com)
  • A new report issued by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics indicates that allegations of rape and sexual assault by prison inmates are increasing, and that 49 percent of the alleged crimes involve correctional officers. (feminist.org)
  • In the 1960s, a broad consensus emerged that prisons should do whatever possible to rehabilitate drug-abusing inmates. (encyclopedia.com)
  • To help the diggers carry out the escape plan, five other prison inmates also took part in digging the tunnel. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Some also sat in the cell with the job of warning of the arrival of prison staff as well as making sure other inmates did not enter the cell. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Among 1,276 inmates, 40 cases at a state prison. (cdc.gov)
  • Invasive pneumococcal At the time of the outbreak, facility A, a medium-se- disease (IPD) occurs when pneumococcus invades curity state prison, housed 1,276 male inmates across normally sterile sites. (cdc.gov)
  • Objective: Through a literature review, the study aims to assess the social environment of the prison system and its correlation with oral and systemic health of inmates, and to assess the conformity of the National Health Plan for the Prison System to the needs of the reality of the prison system. (bvsalud.org)
  • Final considerations: The discussion of the present study allows to state that the unsanitary conditions of confinement in prison are strongly associated with diseases commonly found, and that the National Health Plan for the Prison System provides proper guidelines, and one of them - oral health, is essential for health promotion of inmates. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 1930, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was established to handle the burgeoning population of federal prisoners, caused mainly by the enforcement of Prohibition. (encyclopedia.com)
  • To collect data for NSPHC at a national level, NCHS staff targeted one or more respondents within each of the 50 state Departments of Corrections as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and conducted telephone interviews using a semi-structured questionnaire. (cdc.gov)
  • Readers are debating Michael Ford's statement that architects who want to really impact the fight for racial equality should stop designing jails and prisons, and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update . (dezeen.com)
  • Architects should stop designing jails and prisons, which are representations of systemic racism in the US, if they want to really impact the fight for racial equality , says Michael Ford. (dezeen.com)
  • This mandate will not apply to state prisons and jails. (feminist.org)
  • We're talking about using a scarce resource-beds in jails and prisons-in the most effective way," LELCRI member Benjamin David, a North Carolina prosecutor, told the Times . (reason.com)
  • The BOP's first directorate was eager to launch special programs for drug-abusing prisoners, but many in Congress and elsewhere believed that prisons should have little or no direct role in treating drug-abusing offenders. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Brown, who at 16-years-old was sentenced to life in prison, is now scheduled to be released on August 7, 2019. (feminist.org)
  • On Wednesday, September 18, 2019, the Juvenile Law Center hosted a panel discussion on H.R.2300: Eliminating Debtor's Prison for Kids Act of 2019 . (cwla.org)
  • Johnny Cash volle omaggiare così i detenuti di quel carcere tenendo una delle sue migliori interpretazioni e dedicando loro addirittura una canzone ( Folsom Prison Blues ), già pubblicata come singolo della Sun Records nel 1956 e l'anno seguente in Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar . (wikipedia.org)
  • Da parte loro i detenuti mostrano grande rispetto nei confronti di Cash e del suo lavoro, anche se alcuni dei suoni che sembrano provenire dalla folla (acclamazioni e grida) sono stati sovraincisi dopo la registrazione, per esempio le urla entusiaste dopo il verso « But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die », nel brano Folsom Prison Blues . (wikipedia.org)
  • The law calls the sentence "life in prison without the possibility of parole. (ajc.com)
  • VANERSBORG, Sweden, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Swedish man who completed a two-month prison sentence walked out of prison without pants or shoes after he was denied money to buy new clothes. (upi.com)
  • New York) - The four-year prison sentence for Bernard Ntaganda, founding president of the PS-Imberakuri opposition party, strikes a blow to freedom of expression and democracy in Rwanda, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
  • He said Noor was held in North Dakota for most of his sentence and had no disciplinary issues in prison. (yahoo.com)
  • In Minnesota, it's presumed that a defendant with good behavior will serve two-thirds of a sentence in prison and the rest on parole. (yahoo.com)
  • WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Barry Cadden, co-founder of a specialty compounding pharmacy behind a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, has been handed a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years in Michigan for involuntary manslaughter. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Markezic, O & Svensson, K 2023, ' Disciplinary discretion, interaction and compassion: Transports between prisons from the perspective of the transporters ', Criminology and Criminal Justice . (lu.se)
  • In February 2018, one prisoner was killed the day after telling prison officials he'd been threatened in a dispute over a cellphone. (foxnews.com)
  • The prison system documented 24 prisoner homicides between January 2015 and June 2018, but federal officials said that number was an undercount: They identified three more, and said the state sometimes classifies violent deaths as arising from natural causes. (foxnews.com)
  • The indictment alleges that at the end of 2020, Mahmoud Ardeh decided to dig a tunnel from his cell in order to escape from the prison. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Architects need to be designing new building typologies to replace prisons that "were built to hurt people", says architect Deanna van Buren, who established her non-profit firm to bring an end to mass incarceration in America. (dezeen.com)
  • Yet, prison education is well-known to have incredibly positive effects -it reduces long-term costs of incarceration, reduces recidivism, and reduces violence within prisons. (popsci.com)
  • The newest initiative, the Youth Anti-Prison Project, works with young adults after incarceration or while out on community supervision, offering education, housing, peer mentoring, and support in accessing social services and other basic needs. (yesmagazine.org)
  • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison, officials said. (ap.org)
  • Because the prison system has failed to turn over certain investigative files it subpoenaed, federal officials said, the level of violence may be "even greater than that which we report. (foxnews.com)
  • But prison officials often a blind eye, the Justice Department said. (foxnews.com)
  • The man, referred to only as Percy in media reports, told officials at the Brinkeberg prison in Vanersborg he had outgrown the pants he was wearing when he was arrested for unlawful driving, The Local reported Thursday. (upi.com)
  • According to TMZ sources, "prison officials were privately giggling over the irony. (10news.com)
  • Wednesday morning, Cyntoia Brown was released from jail after being sentenced to life in prison for killing a man responsible for sex trafficking her when she was only 16. (feminist.org)
  • Massachusetts Department of Correction (MA DOC) comprehensive report that includes inmate demographics, prison admissions and releases, number of offenders who return to prison after their release, and information about prison operations. (mass.gov)
  • A central theme is woven into the series of reforms pushed by Gov. Nathan Deal: reserve costly prison beds for scary, violent offenders and substitute rehabilitation and accountability for nonviolent law breakers, especially drug addicts. (ajc.com)
  • Some prisons are overcrowded and their administration cannot separate hard-core criminals from first-time offenders. (rferl.org)
  • So how about dealing with emptying our prisons of drug offenders by creating specialized drug prisons that can potentially pay for themselves? (halfbakery.com)
  • Prison Architect opens with the story of Edward, a man facing the electric chair for committing a crime of passion. (gamespot.com)
  • controversial computer game Prison Architect offers a grim lesson for real-world architects, whose good intentions often count for nothing, says Will Wiles . (dezeen.com)
  • Acting as both architect and governor, you control every detail of your Prison - from building new cells and facilities to hiring staff and creating reform programs - all while dealing with informants, contraband smuggling, gang warfare, full scale riots and more! (playstation.com)
  • Officially, the term "correctional centre" is used for almost all prisons in New South Wales and Queensland, while other states and territories use a variety of names. (wikipedia.org)
  • Barcelona architecture studio Josep Ferrando Architecture has converted a former prison in Tarragona, Spain , into the El Roser Social Centre. (dezeen.com)
  • This detention centre for minors in Marseille offers an alternative to oppressive prison architecture through its muted material palette of natural stone and board-marked concrete. (dezeen.com)
  • Members of the Centre for Prisons Research are involved in several research projects spanning multiple disciplines and institutions. (bath.ac.uk)
  • The Centre for Prisons Research brings together academics, practitioners and third-sector organisations interested in better understanding the experience of coercive confinement. (bath.ac.uk)
  • Auburn is one of America's oldest and most infamous prisons. (counterpunch.org)
  • U.N. Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the first such expert to visit the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison, said those responsible for the U.S. "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of detainees there should be held accountable. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Leprosy in a prison population: A new active search strategy and a prospective clinical analysis. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study evaluates an active search strategy for leprosy diagnosis based on responses to a Leprosy Suspicion Questionnaire (LSQ), and analyzing the clinical, immunoepidemiological and follow-up aspects for individuals living in a prison population . (bvsalud.org)
  • Three robots are being tested at a prison in Pohang, South Korea, on the feasibility of using the machines as guards. (neatorama.com)
  • Nowadays things have improved, but prisoners complain that guards take bribes on a regular basis and that prison authorities treat them inhumanely. (bbc.co.uk)
  • It has always been a maximum-security prison, and it feels like it, from the gloomy fortresslike architecture of stone and steel to the large number of guards to be seen almost everywhere throughout the prison. (counterpunch.org)
  • TMZ reported that Fogle landed the job at the Federal Englewood Correctional Facility, and that the joke was not lost on the prison guards. (10news.com)
  • Drug users would still be in prisons so the drug warriors would be happy, these prisons would be equipped specifically to attempt re-hab rather than preventing violence so the guards would be happy and the prisoner's would pay for all of this by their hard work so I'd be happy. (halfbakery.com)
  • To be considered for parole (with no guarantee of getting it), the offender has to have served at least 12 years, have no serious violent felony or sex offense convictions, have a low-risk rating to commit another crime if released, have a clean disciplinary record, complete certain prison programs and have a high school diploma or equivalent. (ajc.com)
  • An abandoned and bat-infested 18th century prison in Cornwall, England , is being turned into a hotel and tourist attraction by Twelve Architects . (dezeen.com)
  • You can also browse and play other Architects' prisons from around the world! (playstation.com)
  • If the government tries to increase expenditure for prisons and prisoners' welfare, the population that is in dire need of health care, schools and kindergartens will riot. (rferl.org)
  • A guard told me that the prison population at Auburn is around 1,800. (counterpunch.org)
  • Religious groups can play a valuable role in ministering to people in prison, but it is irresponsible to expect that volunteers will be capable of delivering professional services, such as substance abuse treatment, that are so urgently needed among the prison population. (newsweek.com)
  • The New York Times reports that a new group of "more than 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and sheriffs" today will unveil recommendations aimed at reducing the size of the U.S. prison population. (reason.com)
  • Introduction: The population of the prison system is deprived of freedom and not their human rights, which includes the right to health. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the peculiar characteristics of this part of the population require trained human resources to work with the social profile and the diseases commonly found in prisons. (bvsalud.org)
  • A prison or penitentiary holds people for longer periods of time, such as many years, and is operated by a state or federal government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prisons in Australia are operated by state and territory governments, which use several different official names. (wikipedia.org)
  • The use of prisons can be traced back to the rise of the state as a form of social organization. (wikipedia.org)
  • L'album venne registrato nella Folsom State Prison di Folsom, California. (wikipedia.org)
  • Michael Zack III, 54, was pronounced dead minutes after 6:14 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. (ap.org)
  • When it costs more than $20,000 a year to keep someone in state prison, policymakers ask: Is being this tough on crime a smart use of the state's limited budget? (ajc.com)
  • Ivey said she appreciates the "open lines of communication," and said the state has already been trying to address problems, citing her proposal to build three new mega-prisons for men. (foxnews.com)
  • There are many disturbing similarities between the brutality imposed on Stalin's victims and the injustices endured by the incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons. (consortiumnews.com)
  • The Tennessee Department of Correction consists of 14 state prisons located across the state. (tn.gov)
  • A study published in The American Journal of Public Health on Thursday found that about 4 percent of women who were currently incarcerated in state prisons in the United States were pregnant when they were first admitted. (feminist.org)
  • In 1985, the BOP established a task force to evaluate the state of drug-abuse treatment programs within federal prisons. (encyclopedia.com)
  • A pneumococcal disease outbreak caused by Strepto- in a blood culture from an ill patient incarcerated coccus pneumoniae serotype 12F occurred in a state prison in Alabama, USA. (cdc.gov)
  • Tuberculosis case detection in a state prison system. (cdc.gov)
  • In simplest terms, a prison can be a building or camp in which people are legally detained as a punishment for a crime which they are believed to have committed. (wikipedia.org)
  • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a New Hampshire man to eight years in prison for running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business and fined him at least $40,000, although a hearing will be held to determine how much money multiple people who said they were victimized by. (ap.org)
  • Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison is notorious for the murder and torture of thousands of people during the Communist era. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Every night they would take 60 people outside the prison, make them stand in line, then shoot them all and put them into a pit. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Women in prison are still people - and they shouldn't have to endure shackling during childbirth and forced sterilization just because they committed a crime. (feminist.org)
  • As of 2010, statistics from the Prison Policy Initiative show at least 25 percent of incarcerated people haven't finished high school, compared to 13 percent of Americans as a whole. (popsci.com)
  • The deceptions of this world are prisons that hold people, and they cannot come out unless Christ brings them out. (google.com)
  • Those deceptions hold captives in such a way that the people do not know that they are in a prison, but rather they suppose that they are saved and that they are not deceived. (google.com)
  • To date, he has largely focused on prison re-entry programming, providing services and supports for people coming home from prison. (newsweek.com)
  • These three activists are working to support people at risk of either going to prison for the first time or returning to prison after release. (yesmagazine.org)
  • I would like to keep potentially good and irredeemably bad people in separate prisons, and I think the good people might be able to pay their way while they recovered from their addiction. (halfbakery.com)
  • It's my understanding that half our prisons are filled with people in on drug offenses so if even half of these people could make it in a drug rehab work prison we could a) save a lot of money and b) do something good for these people rather than just sending them to crime college. (halfbakery.com)
  • Of the 50% of people in prison for drug offenses, how many are there just because they used drugs or were in possession of 'personal use' quantities? (halfbakery.com)
  • This webinar explores strategies for HCV testing and linkage to care for people currently in or transitioning from prison. (cdc.gov)
  • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. (ap.org)
  • I want to cling to these tiny joys and avoid anything that might move the prison authorities to punitively withdraw them. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • A criminal mastermind who was once France's most-wanted man escaped prison on Sunday by helicopter with help from a flock of heavily-armed men, authorities said. (thedailybeast.com)
  • BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man was sentenced Monday to more than five years in federal prison for organizing a scheme that stole nearly $2 million in government aid intended to help businesses endure the coronavirus pandemic. (ap.org)
  • The federal prison system of the United States has made repeated efforts to treat drug-abusing prisoners. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In 1966, Congress passed the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act (NARA), which, among other initiatives, ordered in-prison and aftercare treatment for narcotic addicts who had been convicted of violating federal laws. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In response, in 1986, the position of chemical-abuse coordinator was established within each prison, and in 1988, the position of national drug-abuse coordinator was created to oversee drug-abuse treatment efforts throughout the federal prison system. (encyclopedia.com)
  • He testifies to his experiences in many federal prisons he was trans. (kboo.fm)
  • Since taking office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has promoted an aggressive agenda of reversing the policies of the Obama years, including reviving contracting with private prisons, urging federal prosecutors to seek harsher prison terms and opposing sentencing reform. (newsweek.com)
  • And not just any prison - the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, W.Va., where celebrity convict and domestic doyenne Martha Stewart has been held for the past few months for illegal insider trading. (rollcall.com)
  • An Arkansas pathologist who misdiagnosed and/or made medical errors in more than 3000 cases while intoxicated has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for manslaughter and mail fraud, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced. (medscape.com)
  • citation needed] In times of war, belligerents or neutral countries may detain prisoners of war or detainees in military prisons or in prisoner-of-war camps. (wikipedia.org)
  • Take control of the building and running of a maximum security prison as the critically acclaimed lock-em-up arrives on PlayStation®4! (playstation.com)
  • If you don't have a degree, the likelihood that you'll return to prison in the first year is 70 percent. (popsci.com)
  • But the latest chapter of Georgia's groundbreaking criminal justice reform initiative is unlocking some prison doors. (ajc.com)
  • Astronomy outreach programs in states, which usually consist of visits to K-12 schools or public lectures, are expanding their reach into prisons, such as at Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative and the University of Washington eSTEAM (Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Astrobiology/Art, and Math) program. (popsci.com)
  • And if you do have a degree it's like 13 percent," explains Erin Flowers , Princeton astronomy PhD candidate and Prison Teaching Initiative Fellow. (popsci.com)
  • Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI) started in 2005 with astronomy faculty and postdoc researchers teaching math classes to incarcerated students, and has now grown into a large program offering coursework across multiple disciplines towards Associate's and Bachelor's degrees from partner institutions to local adult prison populations. (popsci.com)
  • Five Mualimm-ak served 12 years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement, all the while suffering from untreated mental illnesses. (yesmagazine.org)
  • Prison college courses in the US are often under-funded (particularly due to a 1994 law barring incarcerated students from Pell Grants ), or even entirely absent, leaving millions with no opportunities for educational progress during their sentences. (popsci.com)
  • Although the Times describes "ending mandatory minimum prison sentences" as one of LELCRI's goals, the organization's " Statement of Principles " only recommends "reforming mandatory minimum laws, especially for drug and nonviolent offenses. (reason.com)
  • In another prison that month, an inmate who'd been disciplined for knife possession fatally stabbed another prisoner in a fight. (foxnews.com)
  • Tom Hanks plays a prison guard who befriends a death-row inmate with supernatural powers played by Michael Clarke Duncan. (wtop.com)
  • PHILADELPHIA-Tamira Fonville, 34, of New York, NY, who lied on loan applications, ran a check kiting scheme, and filed for public assistance while living in a luxury apartment, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison. (fbi.gov)
  • Her co-conspirator Ricardo Falana was sentenced in February to 80 months in prison. (fbi.gov)
  • Basic things such as food are in short supply and many prisons have trouble ensuring heating during the bitter winter months. (rferl.org)
  • He can do this indefinitely - one of my prison mates has been behind bars for 6 months without a single charge. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • He was sentenced to 27 months in prison last year on weapon charges, but had hoped for an early release for good behavior. (go.com)
  • CeCe McDonald, a transgender woman, was sentenced to 41 months in a men's prison in July 2012 for defending herself from a hate crime. (feminist.org)
  • When he had nightmares for months afterwards, he never told them they were about prison stripes and solitary cages. (fanfiction.net)
  • Prospective tenants begin the screening process at least six months before prison release, ensuring transparency with their future landlords. (yesmagazine.org)
  • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home was released from prison on parole Monday, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge. (yahoo.com)
  • citation needed] In Medieval Songhai, results of a trial could have led to confiscation of merchandise or imprisonment as a form of punishment, since various prisons existed in the empire. (wikipedia.org)
  • In New Zealand, the terms "jail" and "prison" are commonly used, although the terms "correctional facility" and "prison" among others are in official usage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Youth prisons in Australia are referred to as "youth correctional facilities" or "youth detention centres" among other names, depending on the jurisdiction. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study examines the interactions between correctional officers and prisoners during transport between prisons, from the staff's perspective, based on a thematic analysis of 14 interviews with transport officers in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Rapes happen day and night in all corners of the prisons - dormitories, cells, showers and recreation areas - the report said. (foxnews.com)
  • A preliminary report into the intelligence failure which led to the escape by six terrorists from the Gilboa Prison found that the terrorists likely crumbled the concrete on the floor of the cell using acid or Coca-Cola. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • The report commissioned by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) also shows that the escape route of the prisoners included lifting a marble slab in the shower cubicle and digging a tunnel shaft through layers of steel and concrete to the space below. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • To download the Juvenile Law Center report, Debtor's Prison for Kids, click here . (cwla.org)
  • Editorial: Prison changes mark progress, can't end there Nebraska's prison system has made progress over the past eight years in reducing the number of incarcerated persons in "restrictive housing," better known as. (ap.org)
  • In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois ordered restitution in the amount of $202,634.32, a special assessment of $400, and three years of supervised release. (fbi.gov)
  • I added that I been in prisons many times, not least to visit political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, on whose case I had worked for years. (counterpunch.org)
  • Doctors that do perform abortions can be sentenced to up to 99 years in prison. (feminist.org)
  • University of Washington's eSTEAM program, on the other hand, is only a few years old, and builds off the legacy of other programs such as PTI and NASA's Astrobiology for the Incarcerated by bringing prison education to the Seattle community. (popsci.com)
  • To assess the effectiveness of its current multidimensional drug-abuse treatment efforts, the BOP has begun a major evaluation of these programs that will analyze data on both in-prison adjustment and postrelease behavior for up to five years after release. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The maximum penalty for this offense is seven years in prison. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Fogle hasn't had the easiest time since he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in November. (10news.com)
  • On August 11, two PS-Imberakuri members, Sylver Mwizerwa and Donatien Mukeshimana, were sentenced to prison terms of three years and two years respectively for "rebellion" and destruction of property, allegedly for breaking into the PS-Imberakuri office after the landlord had reclaimed it. (hrw.org)
  • The co-founder of a Massachusetts drug company behind a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison by a Michigan judge. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The convicted felon was released from prison on Tuesday, his agent confirmed to ABC News. (go.com)
  • Last year, Meeks told ABC News in an interview from prison that he was working on getting ripped in preparation for his modeling career. (go.com)
  • Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie). (dezeen.com)
  • The Mamertine Prison was located within a sewer system beneath ancient Rome and contained a large network of dungeons where prisoners were held in squalid conditions, contaminated with human waste. (wikipedia.org)
  • So far, the project appears to be doing the same job of a combination computerized video surveillance and public address system, so the push to use robots in prison may be part of South Korea's effort to become the world leader in the robotics industry. (neatorama.com)
  • Most prisoners' complaints are directed not at the prison administration but at the Bulgarian legal system which is slow and corrupt. (rferl.org)
  • By the year 2003, there was not a plan regulating this right when the National Health Plan for the Prison System was implemented. (bvsalud.org)
  • Prison health care : guidelines for the management of an adequate delivery system / B. Jaye Anno. (who.int)
  • In American English, the terms prison and jail have separate definitions, though this is not always strictly adhered to in casual speech. (wikipedia.org)
  • I like the idea of keeping them separate, but isn't this already implemented somewhat by the concept of a minimum security prisons? (halfbakery.com)
  • Staff from over 100 corrections facilities in Indonesia took part in a recently finalized two-year project aimed to improve prison management and treatment of prisoners in the country. (lu.se)
  • In Papua New Guinea, "prison" is officially used, although "jail" is also widely understood and more common in usage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prison" is officially used for some facilities in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was only the second time in the history of the prison that the gates had been opened and prisoners released. (bbc.co.uk)
  • WTOP Film Critic Jason Fraley ranks the best prison movies of all time in the gallery below. (wtop.com)
  • Percy said he was unable to send for extra clothes in time for his release because he only learned a few days before he was to be released that his request for the prison to buy him clothes had been rejected. (upi.com)
  • Similarly, far fewer incarcerated individuals have done any post-secondary education before their time in prison-and, to make the situation worse, they lack access to such education once inside. (popsci.com)
  • 2. Creativity is conducive to spiritual evasion and allows for the opening of a small space of personal freedom in order to resist infantilizing effects, and brutality, as well as expanding horizons during deadly prison time. (bvsalud.org)
  • The results are in line with what is known from prison work and also reflect differences due to the limited space and time spent in transport. (lu.se)
  • The prisoner would have to request it and fulfill their obligations or off to thug prison they go. (halfbakery.com)
  • Meryl Streep's greatest performance came in her Oscar-winning role as a Holocaust survivor who reflects in flashback on the impossible choice she was forced to make by a Nazi prison guard. (wtop.com)
  • Individuals who release from prison often return to underserved communities and face many barriers that make successfu. (kboo.fm)
  • Ten of these prisons are operated by the department and four are managed privately by CoreCivic. (tn.gov)
  • a minimum-security prison, typically where prisoners have outdoor work assignments. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. (dezeen.com)
  • On Thursday, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner hosted a listening session for his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, on prison reform. (newsweek.com)
  • Three of eleven women's rights activists arrested for human rights work in Saudi Arabia have been temporarily released from prison following a bail hearing on Thursday. (feminist.org)
  • Prison personnel, Rouseva added, has largely been unreformed since the fall of Communism and violations of human dignity persist. (rferl.org)
  • Prison education also significantly improves outcomes for incarcerated individuals, such as lower unemployment rates, higher incomes, better health, and increased opportunities for their kids and families. (popsci.com)
  • No one will want to allow them to accumulate money that can be used after release, or provide significantly better amenities in the prison. (halfbakery.com)
  • In many cases, citizens were sentenced to slavery, often in ergastula (a primitive form of prison where unruly slaves were chained to workbenches and performed hard labor). (wikipedia.org)
  • The legislation would outlaw many of the mandatory drug sentencing provisions that have imposed lengthy prison terms in cases of drug kingpins and lower level offenses, alike. (newsweek.com)
  • The LSQ proved to be an important screening tool to help identify leprosy cases in prisons . (bvsalud.org)
  • Will your prison disregard human rights, impose intentional harshness and be devoid of any notions of wellbeing and freedom? (playstation.com)
  • It was founded in 1816 in upstate New York as a model prison, in which work would be a significant part of punishment and rehabilitation. (counterpunch.org)
  • The defendants carried out the excavation work on a daily basis, in shifts adjusted to the prison itinerary, to prevent the discovery of the escape plan, while using improvised excavation tools. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • If anybody wanted to go to regular prison instead just to get out of work they're probably hopeless anyway. (halfbakery.com)
  • In Australia, the words "gaol, "jail" and "prison" are commonly used and are widely understood. (wikipedia.org)
  • I visited Auburn on two occasions recently, in April and May 2009, courtesy of the Cornell University Prison Education Program (CPEP). (counterpunch.org)
  • To help remedy this gap in knowledge, in 2010 the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) partnered with the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to develop and conduct the National Survey of Prison Health Care (NSPHC). (cdc.gov)
  • Our findings within the penitentiary demonstrated a hidden prevalence of leprosy , although the individuals diagnosed were likely infected while living in their former communities and not as a result of exposure in the prison . (bvsalud.org)