Families of people buried in pauper's field next to Hinds County Penal Farm near Jackson, MS, are calling for a federal investigation into the burials, which took place without families being notified ~news usa.ms Article 1001 words 33 votes
Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say ~life Article 509 words 32 votes
Served: Opening a restaurant inside a prison ~food restaurants Video 37:21, published Sep 5 2023 5 votes
How Iceland takes better care of its foreign criminal offenders than the rest of Europe ~life family Article 1004 words 9 votes
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands ~food Article 5027 words 65 votes
Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony ~news russia politics Article 29 votes
Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way ~tech security Video 20:42, published Nov 21 2023 12 votes
Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs ~books libraries.prison Article 1304 words, published Oct 30 2023 22 votes
US study: Law abiding immigrants: the incarceration gap between immigrants and the US born 1850-2020 ~life PDF 9 votes
How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor ~humanities Article 919 words, published Aug 17 2023 34 votes
One thousand inmates at a Wisconsin prison have been confined mostly to their cells for months, with little explanation ~life Article 2340 words 41 votes
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is suing the state for allegedly violating his human rights due to his being held in extreme isolation ~news norway Article 236 words 28 votes
Policeman and reformed criminal who shot him meet face-to-face | Crime Stories ~life Video 26:26 9 votes
Prisons aren't remotely ready for extreme weather: The Texas heat dome showed how vulnerable incarcerated individuals are to heat waves ~enviro climate change Article 27 votes
Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison, union official says ~sports Article 226 words 22 votes
The incentive problem at the heart of the American justice system ~finance Article 3961 words, published Jan 11 2023 7 votes
At least fourteen dead in armed attack on prison in Mexican border city Juarez ~news mexico.juarez crime Article 218 words 5 votes
The predatory US prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed ~tech Article 354 words 15 votes
Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics ~humanities Article 2825 words 10 votes
This man is allowed to starve himself to death, but not to eat some biscuits ~health Article 8434 words 9 votes
Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik is once again suing the Norway government in a bid to force an end to his isolation ~news norway Article 350 words 8 votes
Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving eleven dead ~news mexico crime.organized Article 8 votes
California lawmakers reject ballot proposal that aimed to end forced prison labor ~news usa.ca law politics Article 1362 words, published Jun 30 2022 10 votes
They went to prison as kids. Now they’re on death row. ~life Article 2083 words, published Feb 1 2022 9 votes
A boy among men: What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess. ~life Article 8010 words, published Feb 25 2015 7 votes
Danish government will rent prison cells in Kosovo – measure limited to prisoners who were already set to be deported from Denmark ~misc politics Article 322 words, published Nov 7 2017 6 votes
The invisible wall - Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the EU has created a shadow immigration system that captures, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias ~misc politics Link 10 votes
Prison guards, but not mother, get counselling after baby dies in cell ~life.women Article 1008 words 19 votes
At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded twenty-five others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since. ~life Article 13 625 words, published Jun 12 2021 18 votes
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. ~life Article 7224 words 9 votes
Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals ~tech privacy Article 1369 words 16 votes
Peter Madsen, convicted of murdering Kim Wall in 2017, has been recaptured after escaping from his suburban jail in Copenhagen by taking a psychologist hostage ~news denmark.copenhagen crime Article 197 words 11 votes
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' ~health Article 503 words 10 votes
Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio was built to hold 1,500 inmates. It had over 2,000 coronavirus cases ~health Article 3394 words 6 votes
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 ~health Article 1640 words 7 votes
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 ~tech Link 11 votes
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 ~science mathematics Link 8 votes
Prison inmates in Western Australia made 100 school desks in less than two weeks to donate to families for children homeschooling during the coronavirus pandemic ~life education Article 859 words 5 votes
In four US state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus -- 96% without symptoms ~health Article 1388 words 10 votes
Calls mount to free low-risk US inmates to curb coronavirus impact on prisons ~health Article 709 words 6 votes