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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)
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)
A ballot initiative in California could result in the early release of one in five of the inmates in the state's prison system. (fsrn.org)
Former inmates such as Friedmann, families of inmates, and former employees of private prisons have accused the companies of neglecting health care and security concerns in the interest of saving money or coping with staffing shortages. (voanews.com)
As a summer heat wave continues to bake most of Texas, family members of inmates are calling for all of the state's prisons to be fully air conditioned. (huffpost.com)
This leads to challenges when trying to determine their effectiveness: prisons that do not accept unhealthy inmates or those serving sentences for violent offenses should not be directly compared to those that do because of the differences in costs required to serve different prison populations. (brookings.edu)
Solitary confinement, which is used to restrain violent and volatile inmates from the general prison population, is done in increments ranging from several months to years. (ipl.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)
Inmates who participate in any kind of educational program behind bars-from remedial math to vocational auto shop to college-level courses-are up to 43 percent less likely to reoffend and return to prison, the study found. (rand.org)
Inmates who participate in any kind of educational program behind bars are up to 43 percent less likely to return to prison. (rand.org)
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison company, imprisons about 80,000 inmates across 16 states. (msnbc.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 correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons. (cnbc.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)

The 2016 Nobel prize-winner in Economics, Oliver Hart, and coauthors explained that prison contracts tend to induce the wrong incentives by focusing on specific tasks such as accreditation requirements and hours of staff training rather than outcomes, and noted the failure of most contracts to address excessive use of force and quality of personnel in particular. (brookings.edu)
In Adelanto immigrant prison, 3 people have died in the last 7 months, and 6 people have attempted suicide since December 2016. (change.org)
Before he moved to Connecticut, Marullo worked on a similar policy in Rhode Island, which brought methadone, Suboxone and Vivitrol to its prisons in 2016 at the recommendation of Brown University doctors. (theday.com)
In 2016, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced that the federal government would be phasing out private prisons. (cnbc.com)

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)
The vast majority of U.S. civilian prisons and jails are not air conditioned. (motherjones.com)
Drug laws and mandatory minimums have driven a 700% spike in the prison population over the past few decades, leading many states to literally run out of jails. (msnbc.com)
In the 1980s, for-profit prisons began winning contracts to operate entire jails for the first time. (msnbc.com)
This mandate will not apply to state prisons and jails. (feminist.org)

May God continue to bless all prisoners and chaplains and all partakers in the prison ministry. (methodist.org.uk)
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, triple-tier bunks are seen in a gymnasium converted to house prisoners at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, Calif. (voanews.com)
a minimum-security prison, typically where prisoners have outdoor work assignments. (encyclopedia.com)
Private prisons are unique in that, by contract, the types of prisoners that they are willing to accept are limited. (brookings.edu)
Levitt has sorted out the impact of prisons on crime from other factors by looking at crime rates and prison populations in states where prisoners' rights groups, especially the national prison project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have succeeded in winning civil suits alleging that overcrowding in prisons was ''cruel and unusual punishment'' and thus unconstitutional. (csmonitor.com)
This leaves to the state the decision as to whether to build new prisons, shuffle prisoners among prisons or place them in another state, slow the number of individuals put into the prison, or release prisoners. (csmonitor.com)
It was only the second time in the history of the prison that the gates had been opened and prisoners released. (bbc.co.uk)
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)
Since prisoners are part of the broader community, the health threat of HIV within prisons is inextricably linked with that outside prisons, thus demanding coordinated action. (unodc.org)
Formally launched in November 2009 and spearheaded by UNODC, the network supports HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment strategies in prison settings in Africa, operating in observance of internationally recognized human rights and medical ethics relating to the provision of health services for prisoners. (unodc.org)
With far more prisoners than prison cells, states are turning to corporations to pick up the slack-with profound implications for criminal justice reform. (msnbc.com)
Participants spoke out against the role of the GEO Group in lobbying for anti-immigrant legislation and harsh criminal policies, as well as the gross mistreatment of prisoners that occurs in GEO-run prisons and detention centers. (socialistworker.org)
Several demonstrators spoke about their own experiences at immigration detention centers and Rivers Correctional Institution, a GEO-operated prison in North Carolina where many Washington, D.C., prisoners are sent. (socialistworker.org)
These companies use this some of this money--accumulated by housing prisoners in inhumane conditions and paying guards lower salaries then they receive at government-run facilities--to lobby for harsh criminal sanctions for nonviolent crimes in order to keep their prisons full and profitable. (socialistworker.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)

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)
Designed in Adelaide by the engineers who developed the Royal Australian Navy's battle-proven combat management system, OneView is also securing hospitals, defence bases, government buildings, detention centres and other major prisons around the country. (saab.com)
If these are harmless "detention centers" … Why do they look like prisons, why are they run like prisons, and why are they owned by prison companies? (change.org)
WASHINGTON (CN) - The federal Appropriations Act for this year requires that "not less than 34,000 detention beds" be available to imprison immigrants, far more than are available in federal immigration prisons, and a human rights group wants to know the effect this "Detention Bed Mandate" has on immigration policy. (courthousenews.com)
The protest illustrated the momentum locally and nationally around issues of mass incarceration, private prisons and detention for profit. (socialistworker.org)
Activists denounced private prison companies and some Wall Street banks as profiteering on detention. (cnbc.com)
In March, J.P. Morgan announced that it would no longer finance private operators of prisons and detention centers. (cnbc.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)

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)
He said prisons are necessary, but what he called the "mass incarceration industry" is not. (voanews.com)
The Sentencing Project , a nonprofit group working to reduce use of incarceration in the United States, earlier this month released a report on growth in the private prison industry since the beginning of the 21st century. (voanews.com)
A 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute, " Gaming The System, " documents how private prison companies, including CCA, have sought to advance "pro-incarceration" policies at the state and federal level. (msnbc.com)
Signs stated that "Mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow," asked passersby "Are you banking on a world of prisons? (socialistworker.org)
The Criminal (In)Justice Committee of Occupy D.C., which joined Enlace in organizing the action in Washington, launched its campaign against Wells Fargo two months ago, encouraging D.C. residents to boycott Wells Fargo because of its complicity in the expansion of the private prison industry and mass incarceration. (socialistworker.org)

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)

Last September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill mandating that condoms be available in all of the state's 34 adult prisons. (fsrn.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)

As part of FSRN's profile series, we meet Steven Czifra, who's spent a total of 16 years in California prisons. (fsrn.org)
L'album venne registrato nella Folsom State Prison di Folsom, California. (wikipedia.org)
Recent years have seen scattered reports of heat-related prison deaths in California and Texas , among others. (motherjones.com)
Daniels is an inmate at the California Institution for Men, a sprawling prison complex about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. (rand.org)

They urged the use of alternative correctional programs, decriminalization of drug offenses, or a moratorium on new prisons. (csmonitor.com)
The data on solitary confinement should be made public because taxpayers fund the correctional system prisons. (ipl.org)
The core mandate of the network is to help members to address the broader correctional and prison reform challenges in Africa and to support the work of both correctional services and national AIDS councils across the continent. (unodc.org)
THE GEO Group and Correctional Corporation of America (CCA) are the two largest private prison companies in the world. (socialistworker.org)

On March 19, 2013, Thomas Lynn Clements was the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot and killed at his home by Evan Ebel and inmate that was once housed in Colorado prison and held in solitary confinement for 5½ of his six years. (ipl.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)
Danelo Cavalcante, who has been on the run since Thursday, escaped the Chester County Prison the same way that another inmate did earlier this year. (huffpost.com)
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)
The summer of 2009 hadn't even begun when Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona's Perryville Prison, was baked to death. (motherjones.com)

Barcelona architecture studio Josep Ferrando Architecture has converted a former prison in Tarragona, Spain , into the El Roser Social Centre. (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)

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)
State officials carrying out stricter criminal justice measures faced increasingly crowded facilities and some turned to private companies to build or run their prisons. (brookings.edu)
Department of Corrections Director Dora Schriro will talk about a recently commissioned study that examined the cost of privatization versus state-run prisons. (azpbs.org)
A new report shows that it's cheaper for the state to run prisons than for private companies to run them. (azpbs.org)
Levitt concludes that for each one-prisoner reduction induced by prison overcrowding litigation, the total number of crimes committed in the state increases on average by 15 per year. (csmonitor.com)
Earlier this summer, the chair of Texas State Senate's Judiciary Committee, John Whitmire (D-Houston), told the Houston Chronicle that enduring the heat is "part of the reality of going to prison. (motherjones.com)
Among the bills Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed last month is one advocates say could expand access to opioid addiction treatment in state prisons. (theday.com)
Florida, which recently rejected a plan to transfer over 20 state prisons to private companies, has found that some private prisons cut health care services by as much as 50%, raising concerns about safety and mistreatment. (msnbc.com)
After surveying those kind of tradeoffs, The Week magazine concluded last month that "as bad as state-run prisons can be, private prisons ultimately pose a greater threat," since "they exist solely to make a profit off of incarcerated individuals. (msnbc.com)
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)
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)
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)

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)
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)
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)

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)
Prison Architect opens with the story of Edward, a man facing the electric chair for committing a crime of passion. (gamespot.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)

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)

The law calls the sentence "life in prison without the possibility of parole. (ajc.com)
People in immigrant prisons are not serving a sentence, but simply awaiting the outcome of our request to stay in the US. (change.org)

Selling punishment In many states, private prisons have grown into a powerful employer and business lobby. (msnbc.com)

But the latest chapter of Georgia's groundbreaking criminal justice reform initiative is unlocking some prison doors. (ajc.com)

After reading the article, I do agree that juveniles should be segregate from the adult prison for protection. (ipl.org)
There have been cases where juveniles committ suicide while in adult prison because they have experienced physical abuse, mistreatment by staff members and long stays in solitary confinement. (ipl.org)

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)
Ryan was contracted by the DOJ to help rebuild Iraqi prisons, one of those being the notorious Abu Ghraib. (motherjones.com)
Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison is notorious for the murder and torture of thousands of people during the Communist era. (bbc.co.uk)

Prison chaplaincy is an incredible privilege for those who serve in prisons. (methodist.org.uk)
Working in Prison Chaplaincy can be both an immensely rewarding and frustrating experience. (methodist.org.uk)

As HIV and AIDS leaders, practitioners, policymakers and activists meet for the biannual International AIDS Conference this week in Vienna, UNODC is focusing on HIV in prison settings, its related activities underpinned by the belief that good prison health is good public health. (unodc.org)
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)
Washington, D.C. activists are speaking up about the for-profit prison industry--and the big bankers who back them. (socialistworker.org)
SOME 100 activists gathered in Tivoli Square in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across from a Wells Fargo branch on January 24 to oppose the bank's investments in the GEO Group, the nation's second-largest private prison company. (socialistworker.org)

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)

Three robots are being tested at a prison in Pohang, South Korea, on the feasibility of using the machines as guards. (neatorama.com)

It noted that the number of people held in private prisons has increased 47 percent since 2000, so that now 1 in every 12 people in the U.S. prison population is being held in a private facility. (voanews.com)
At year-end 1994, the prison population exceeded 1 million. (csmonitor.com)
Strategies to address HIV in prisons are isolated and not properly addressed by national HIV action plans, despite the fact that imprisonment provides an important opportunity to screen, counsel and treat a high-risk population whose members will eventually return to the community. (unodc.org)
Available data shows that since mid-March the overall prison population has fallen by almost 4,000. (theyworkforyou.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)

and advocate for professional and political leadership and community involvement in achieving an effective response to HIV in prisons. (unodc.org)
Based on the French experience, we advocate the importance of the creative process in prison by means of 7 points: 1. (bvsalud.org)

One other major allegation is that private prisons keep their foothold in the U.S. corrections industry with campaign contributions to politicians and use of lobbying firms to push for tough-on-crime legislation that keeps prisons full. (voanews.com)

Politicians in both parties responded to prison crowding with private prisons: The industry grew by 1,600% over a 20-year period ending in 2009. (msnbc.com)
The private prisons sector quickly grew into a multibillion-dollar industry and blossomed through Democratic and Republican administrations alike. (cnbc.com)

Jeannie Alexander heads a group called No Exceptions Prison Collective, which advocates abolition of private prisons. (voanews.com)

As is true in Connecticut, some Rhode Island prison wardens were concerned about security given that methadone and Suboxone, although used to treat addiction, are opioids themselves. (theday.com)
Once your prison is built, go online with World of Wardens to share your designs with the community. (playstation.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)

People in prison are no different from you or me in terms of hopes, needs, and fears. (edc.org)
Most people in prison have been failed repeatedly by society. (edc.org)

In your entire life, about how long have you spent in jail or prison? (cdc.gov)

Alex Friedmann was once in favor of private prisons. (voanews.com)
It also said private prison companies keep operational costs low by employing non-union, low-skilled workers at lower salaries and more limited benefits than their counterparts in public institutions. (voanews.com)
Fundamentally, she said, the problem with private prisons is that the number of bodies in cells determines how much money each facility makes. (voanews.com)
In Boca Raton, Florida, a similar protest drew about 100 people to the headquarters of GEO Group, the other leading private prison company in the United States. (voanews.com)
Recently, private prisons have become the focus of considerable attention as scandals resulted in major prison closings (e.g. (brookings.edu)
Walnut Grove in Mississippi) and the Bureau of Prisons decided in September to phase out federal use of private prisons. (brookings.edu)
This economic analysis explores the growth of private prisons and provides an economic framework for evaluating them. (brookings.edu)
These differences may arise due to the incentives provided in private prison contracts, which pay on the basis of the number of beds utilized and typically contain no incentives to produce desirable outcomes such as low recidivism rates. (brookings.edu)
Cutting more than costs Whatever the savings, the public does not necessarily benefit when private prisons are run on the cheap. (msnbc.com)
In May, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU filed a suit alleging that a Mississippi private prison is systematically mistreating mentally ill patients, (including denying them adequate food and medical care). (msnbc.com)
Tuesday's action was a collaboration between two organizations that have been leading distinct but similar campaigns against Wells Fargo's investments in private prisons: Enlace, a coalition for organizing the working poor, and the Criminal (In)Justice Committee of Occupy D.C. (socialistworker.org)
Private prison companies have been a source of debate since they were established in the 1980s. (cnbc.com)
The largest pension fund in the country is divesting, and several states are passing laws to phase out private prisons. (cnbc.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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Ryan's own bio on the ADC Web site touts that he was "assistant program manager for the Department of Justice overseeing the Iraqi Prison System for almost four years. (motherjones.com)
He's 49 years old, a prison veteran with 14 felony convictions on his record. (rand.org)
Donald Daniels (left) spent the last 29 years in and out of prison. (rand.org)
Doctors that do perform abortions can be sentenced to up to 99 years in prison. (feminist.org)

Marullo said the Department of Justice is investigating whether Massachusetts, by not offering methadone, Suboxone and Vivitrol in its prisons, is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. (theday.com)

Danelo Cavalcante was seen on cameras at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday in Pocopson Township, roughly 1.5 miles from the prison. (huffpost.com)
Annual government outlays on prisons are roughly $40 billion. (csmonitor.com)

A sophisticated electronic security system, designed by Saab Australia will secure a number of New South Wales prisons. (saab.com)
The prisons' electronic security specification demanded a highly automated, user-friendly system with open architecture that integrates 'best-of-breed' sub systems at any time with minimum risk. (saab.com)
OneView was engineered from the ground up to be a highly reliable, simple to use, physical security information management system perfect for critical infrastructure facilities like prisons said Saab Australia, department manager public safety and security, Michael Wilkin. (saab.com)
In 12 states, the entire prison system has been under court order concerning overcrowding (rather than only a portion of the prison facilities). (csmonitor.com)
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)
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)

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)
HMPPS has worked with individual establishments and local health teams to identify the most appropriate way to implement the compartmentalisation strategy in each prison, in line with national guidance. (theyworkforyou.com)

The results of an RWI programme within the area of human rights and corrections in Indonesia included an improvement of conditions in prisons. (lu.se)

The New York Times editorial suggested there were less expensive alternatives that would protect the public "that don't involve fattening the bottom lines of for-profit prison corporations. (courthousenews.com)

Earlier in the week at the AIDS conference, UNODC discussed an initiative called the African HIV in Prisons Partnership Network (AHPPN), which aims to support Governments and organizations in their efforts to mount effective, human rights-based responses to HIV in prisons in Africa. (unodc.org)

In order to provide principled direction and support to the network and its membership, a Southern and Eastern Africa declaration of commitment for HIV and AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support in prisons has been developed. (unodc.org)
HIV/AIDS in prisons : final report / prepared by Ralf Jürgens. (who.int)

Jesus will never stay out of prisons… and sometimes he uses me to listen, educate, comfort, and most of all share the good news of hope to those who are willing to listen. (methodist.org.uk)

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)

That is what the media, government, and for-profit prison companies who run these facilities call them, but in reality, these are immigrant prisons. (change.org)
We, who have survived these brutal places, are requesting that media organizations - The Associated Press, The New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and other influential media outlets, call these facilities what they are: immigrant prisons. (change.org)
Carlos was in GEO Group's Adelanto immigrant prison, and Sylvester in CCA's Otay immigrant prison in San Diego, among other facilities. (change.org)

KEEPING criminals in prison reduces crime rates by two or three times more than conventional wisdom holds. (csmonitor.com)

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