Tag: prisons
Trump Threatens to Jail Tesla Vandals in El Salvador Prisons
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had previously offered to imprison convicted criminals from the United States in his country’s notorious prison [...]
Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In
The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.
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U.S. Prisons Flout Law by Keeping Inmates Past Release Date, A.C.L.U. Says
Tens of thousands of prisoners deemed to be at low risk of committing crimes again have languished in lockup for as long as a year after they reached [...]
Shabana Mahmood says prisons may still run out of space
PA MediaJustice Secretary Shabana Mahmood - pictured here last month - has spoken to the BBCThe justice secretary has said even under the government's [...]
Prisons plan will fall short by 2027, watchdog warns
Government plans to tackle the prisons crisis will fall short of thousands of cells and be £4bn over-budget in two years' time, a watchdog has warned. [...]
Building more prisons not answer to crisis, says review chief
The man in charge of a review of the prisons crisis says building more jails is not the answer and a more "strategic" approach is needed to free up sp [...]
Under Trump, U.S. Prisons Offered Gender-Affirming Care
The Trump administration’s approach is notable in light of a campaign ad that slams Vice President Kamala Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transg [...]
Ministers are considering extraordinary solutions to the prisons crisis
Next week, around 3,000 prisoners in England and Wales will be released early from jail.Why? In the last week or so the system came within around 100 [...]
Under 100 spaces in men’s prisons in England and Wales
PAMore prison spaces will be available in the coming days, following challenges created by the bank holidayThere are fewer than 100 available spaces l [...]
Evan Gershkovich and 23 Others Freed From Russian Prisons in Major Swap
The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was among 24 people released in a seven-nation, painstakingly negotiated deal that President Biden h [...]
Staffing Crisis at Federal Prisons Highlighted in Oregon
Delays for medical care were severe enough to force one inmate at the prison to fake a suicide attempt to obtain treatment for a serious infection.
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Fact-checking PM's claims on prisons, crime and the NHS
Rishi Sunak makes a series of claims, also covering small boats and defence spending.
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Many Suicides in Prisons Could Have Been Averted, Justice Dept. Watchdog Says
The Bureau of Prisons routinely subjects prisoners to conditions that put them at heightened risk of self-harm, drug overdoses, accidents and violence [...]
Prisons must focus on rehabilitation to cut reoffending, says chief inspector
Charlie Taylor says a "fundamental reorientation" of prisons is the only way to reduce reoffending.
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Short on Staff, Prisons Enlist Teachers and Case Managers as Guards
From the outside, the prison complex in Florence, Colo., is a forbidding citadel of steel, concrete and coiled barbed wire, housing some of the most n [...]