Beautification project in California prison inspired by Norwegian approach to incarceration – rehabilitation in humane prisons surrounded by nature leads to successful reintegration into society
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Prison inmates in Finland are being employed as data labellers to improve accuracy of AI models
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Tell San Mateo County: Stop for-profit tech companies denying mail to incarcerated people
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United Kingdom's new Prisons Minister, James Timpson, thinks 'two thirds of inmates shouldn't be there'
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Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who has been held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, was released as part of a deal with Tehran
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Do children have a “right to hug” their parents?
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US Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison
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New data shows deadly cost of US officials' failures with COVID in prisons
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Case before Norway's Supreme Court claims that depriving sex offender of a Snapchat account is unlawful under the European Convention on Human Rights
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How Iceland takes better care of its foreign criminal offenders than the rest of Europe
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
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Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
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Years ago, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court decided, in secret, to systematically ignore petitions filed by prisoners, most of them black
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One thousand inmates at a Wisconsin prison have been confined mostly to their cells for months, with little explanation
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Prison can be a hostile place. Then the birds came.
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Baltimore prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed, subject of podcast Serial
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This man is allowed to starve himself to death, but not to eat some biscuits
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The art of bidding, or how I survived Federal prison
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At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
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Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving eleven dead
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How prisoners in America got into stocks
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California lawmakers reject ballot proposal that aimed to end forced prison labor
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“They force you to work” - Report on unpaid prison labor
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Iran has ruled out a potential prison swap involving an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been sentenced to death for spying
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They went to prison as kids. Now they’re on death row.
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Danish government will rent prison cells in Kosovo – measure limited to prisoners who were already set to be deported from Denmark
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Prison guards, but not mother, get counselling after baby dies in cell
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Prisoners serving life sentences in Denmark are to be banned from entering new romantic relationships
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Master criminal Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes. When he landed in a maximum-security prison, cinema provided inspiration for his escape.
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SAS soldiers made to shoot prisoners to get their first kill, thirty-nine Afghans 'murdered', inquiry finds
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Nearly 1,000 inmates will be removed from San Quentin prison after its infection rate has gotten so bad it's been dubbed 'the Chernobyl of COVID'
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District attorney urges new trial for man on Alabama’s death row
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Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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Ameelio, a startup backed by the Mozilla's 'Fix the Internet', aims to provide free video calls and messaging to prisoners in the US where video calls can cost as much as $25 for 15min
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An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries: Published in the journal Research in Number Theory, he showed for the first time regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers
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In four US state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus -- 96% without symptoms
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Thirty-eight positive for coronavirus at Rikers, NYC jails
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How Norway made a more humane prison
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Rather than punishing prisoners, Finland's open prisons focus on rehabilitation and preparation for a smooth reentry into society
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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
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Paul Skalnik is a liar, a con artist and a snitch. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.
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Denmark frees thirty-two inmates over flaws in phone geolocation evidence – two-month moratorium on the use of mobile phone records
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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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Rikers Island dilemma: Stop taking addiction meds, or stay behind bars
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How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours
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Secrets and lies at Guantanamo Bay: Listening devices, FBI informants, and gag orders… these are just some of the ways that the US is mishandling classified information in the Al Qaeda trials
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Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
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In just two states, all prisoners can vote. Here's why few do.
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Who begs to go to prison? California jail inmates
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