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Women’s rights have effectively been eliminated in women’s prisons because of transgender inmates, according to a former female prisoner. On Friday, the Independent Women’s Forum released the first episode of its ongoing docu-series "Cruel and ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian man has died in prison while serving a sentence for insulting the country's authoritarian president, a human rights group said Thursday, adding to a growing number of political prisoners who perished amid a relentless ...
When the Supreme Court justices return for their February sitting later this month, they’ll take up three cases grappling with prisoner rights. The legal battles include a death-row inmate requesting post-conviction DNA testing, prisoners in another case ...
Cell phones in prison are a problem but they may be a symptom of other isolating issues that prisoners face. In speaking with men and women who have gone to prison, they experience withdrawals from having a cell phone once they are inside, something not ...
In Walker v. Senecal, --- F.4th ---, 2025 WL 715398 (2d Cir. Mar. 6, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether allegations of a prison officer’s destruction of a prisoner’s draft lawsuit, followed by the officer’s ...
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After Shapiro calls for 2 state prisons to close, prisoner advocates follow up with specific recommendations
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — After Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal called for the closure of two state prisons to save taxpayer dollars, several groups organized a march in the city on Saturday for prisoner rights and the closure two specific ...
Qarchak prison has been sanctioned by the US on the basis of extrajudicial killings, torture and other violations of human rights - Tahmineh Rahmani/Fars News Agency/Creative Commons Iran moved female inmates to a “hellhole” detention centre in the ...
Legal Aid Society's evaluation of New York City jail complex's progress. — -- When New York City settled a class-action lawsuit over abuses at Rikers Island, officials agreed to implement reforms that would, in the words of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara ...
Last week, USA Today ran a hit piece on federal prisoners with the tabloid headline, “Government shutdown: Federal inmates feast on Cornish hens, steak as prison guards labor without pay.” Not to be outdone, The Washington Post followed this up with ...
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