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12 votes
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In 2017, Iceland had the lowest number of prisoners per inhabitants (thirty-nine per 100,000) among European countries, according to Eurostat
5 votes -
The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI
11 votes -
Privatizing public services: Does it work?
5 votes -
A$AP Rocky told he cannot perform for inmates at his old Swedish jail – national prison board cites logistical and security issues
4 votes -
In defence of America’s prison-industrial complex
10 votes -
It's not just a bunch of flowers - Why supporting Extinction Rebellion in a spirit of cooperation and friendship has, at times, been extraordinarily difficult
10 votes -
Four sentenced to federal prison for organic fraud
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Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
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Crime and Punishment is an interesting, hard to watch, docu about the UK prison system
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole". Here's a link to the first episode:...
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole".
Here's a link to the first episode: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crime-and-punishment/on-demand/64655-001
Crime and punishment is a documentary series that looks inside prison to tell the stories of the criminal justice system from the viewpoint of those involved.
The first episode spends some time talking about the unjust "Imprisonment for Public Protection"[1] sentences (these are no longer given by the courts but there are thousands of prisoners still imprisoned on them), how they went wrong, and the awful effect they have upon prisoners. It's a difficult watch. It shows how severely the mental health of prisoners is when they're on this type of sentence, including their serious self harm.
Episode two talks about pressure inside prisons and how that results in "riots", about how prisoners use the only power they have available to them.
I like the programme because it avoids judgmentalism. The prisoners are not reduced to the bad guys; the officers are not simplified to the good guys. You hear a little bit about some of the offences committed by the prisoners
Here's a Twitter thread from someone working in the English NHS. She works in forensic services as a psychologist. https://twitter.com/SarahE_Davidson/status/1173707912981700608
I guess Channel 4 On Demand have geo-blocking. I don't know if it's available on other services, or on torrent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protection
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In short-staffed jail, Jeffrey Epstein was left alone for hours, and one of the two guards didn't normally work as a correctional officer
11 votes -
Jeffrey Epstein commits suicide at Manhattan jail
69 votes -
Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch after accused sex trafficker is found injured in New York jail
17 votes -
Fearing for his life: Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him
11 votes -
Fire at notorious Brooklyn federal jail as New York City enters heat wave
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A man who murdered his wife, three young children, and mother-in-law has become the first person in Western Australia ordered by a judge never to be released from prison.
11 votes -
How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours
12 votes -
We thought our prison strike was a success. Then came the officers in riot gear.
14 votes -
Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
8 votes -
China killing prisoners to harvest organs for transplant, tribunal finds
19 votes -
Mentally Ill and Languishing in Jail
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Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never Get the Same Chance.
10 votes -
Who begs to go to prison? California jail inmates
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I told prison guards I have celiac disease. They fed me gluten anyway.
21 votes -
Asylum seekers are being “disappeared” in private Louisiana jails
11 votes -
People in Alabama prisons are shackled to buckets for days on end
11 votes -
Rise in white prisoners shows prison racism goes beyond disparities
8 votes -
California tried to fix its prisons. Now county jails are more deadly.
8 votes -
For incarcerated Hepatitis C patients, adequate treatment is hard to come by
7 votes -
Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind.
20 votes -
Guantánamo’s darkest secret - The US military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.
14 votes -
Alleged Christchurch mosque shooter makes formal complaint from prison
7 votes -
‘A nightmare’: Inside the Federal jail in Brooklyn with little heat or electricity
7 votes -
South Carolina officials won’t evacuate prison ahead of Hurricane Florence
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US inmates claim retaliation by prison officials as result of multi-state strike
23 votes -
Major prison strike spreads across US and Canada as inmates refuse food
19 votes -
Prisoners striking in seventeen US states over prison conditions
18 votes -
US judge bars statements made by Guantánamo detainees during FBI interrogations
9 votes -
US teachers' union urges pensions to cut investment in private prisons
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Captive audience: How companies make millions charging prisoners to send an email
20 votes -
Writing from Manus prison: a scathing critique of domination and oppression. Behrouz Boochani spent almost five years typing passages of his book into a mobile phone. The result resists classification
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For two decades, defending death row inmates
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Basil Banghart, an incredibly interesting American criminal, burglar and prison escape artist
4 votes -
Manhunt underway after notorious French gangster Rédoine Faïd breaks free from jail in dramatic helicopter escape
8 votes -
Is it constitutional to send someone back to prison for relapsing?
10 votes -
Did you ever go to jail or prison what was it like?
I never been to prison myself, but I would really want to hear from people who have.
7 votes -
US Federal prisons abruptly cancel policy that made it harder, costlier for inmates to get books
5 votes