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17 votes
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Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
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AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'
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What happens when prosecutors offer contradictory versions of the truth?
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Served: Opening a restaurant inside a prison
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Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent
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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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What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account
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Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony
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Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
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US President Joe Biden pardons thousands on federal marijuana charges, commutes others
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Sentenced to life for an accident miles away
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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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Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs
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Ex-leader of Proud Boys sentenced to twenty-two years in Jan. 6 sedition case
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Victorian Aboriginal truth-telling inquiry calls for major overhaul of justice systems
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US study: Law abiding immigrants: the incarceration gap between immigrants and the US born 1850-2020
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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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Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is suing the state for allegedly violating his human rights due to his being held in extreme isolation
28 votes -
Prisons aren't remotely ready for extreme weather: The Texas heat dome showed how vulnerable incarcerated individuals are to heat waves
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Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania
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Solitary confinement
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Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics
10 votes -
Baltimore prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed, subject of podcast Serial
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The art of bidding, or how I survived Federal prison
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Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik is once again suing the Norway government in a bid to force an end to his isolation
8 votes -
Strip-search optional: Volunteers to test new Swiss jail
9 votes -
They went to prison as kids. Now they’re on death row.
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A boy among men: What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess.
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Prison guards, but not mother, get counselling after baby dies in cell
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Crime and humanity in Yakuza
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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.
9 votes -
What's your stance on capital punishment?
I want to hear what you think. Is it morally wrong? Should it be abolished or reinstated? What's the situation where you live?
15 votes -
American incarceration, in real numbers
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After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
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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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In Alabama, if the cops kill someone committing a crime, their accomplice goes to jail for murder (2018)
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Maya Moore gave up more to fight for social justice than almost any athlete
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Lesotho's prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder
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How Norway made a more humane prison
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Florida can't bar felons from registering to vote over fees and fines, appeals court rules
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Rather than punishing prisoners, Finland's open prisons focus on rehabilitation and preparation for a smooth reentry into society
12 votes -
Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
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Florida faces a rocky rollout to restore voting rights after felony convictions
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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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When prosecutors bury NYPD officers' lies
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The US sends “the worst of the worst” to the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Colorado. This is what happens when they get out.
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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