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Florence prisoner sentenced for gang-related stabbing
Denver :: CO :: USA | 3 days ago
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Font Resize The Denver Post A prison gang member at the supermax Florence ADX has been sentenced to serve additional time after he stabbed another prisoner in a gang-related attack. Michael Kelewood, 27, was sentenced to seven more years on May 15
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All my love, Mick
London :: United Kingdom | 9 days ago
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Mick and Mairead Philpott have swapped cards in jail to mark their tenth wedding anniversary. The pair, caged after all six of their children died in a house fire, bought the cards at prison shops using their jail bank accounts. Mairead, 32, wrote
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Australia's highest-security inmate to remain in jail
Sydney :: Australia | 14 days ago
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The convicted murderer has been sentenced in the NSW District Court for organising the supply of drugs from Sydney to Melbourne using a mobile phone smuggled into Lithgow Jail in 2008. Hamzy also organised a kidnapping in Adelaide and recruited
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America's 10 Worst Prisons: Pelican Bay
City of The Dalles :: OR :: USA | 16 days ago
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Nor, however, is it supposed to include being raped by fellow prisoners or staff, beaten by guards for the slightest provocation, driven mad by long-term solitary confinement, or killed off by medical neglect. These are the fates of thousands of
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Judge won't dismiss Supermax inmates' claims of inhumane conditions
Florence :: Italy | 30 days ago
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Font Resize A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming officials at the federal Supermax prison in Florence house mentally ill inmates in inhumane conditions and ignore their need for treatment...Bureau of Prisons and individual officials,
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Have Prisons Become The Mass Housing Of Our Time?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Posted by JacobSloan on March 12, 2013 Via Creative Time Reports , aerial photographer Christoph Gielen on prisons as the new housing boom: Since 1980, when the U.S. prison population began to increase dramatically, Americans have been living in an
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Solitary confinement, not torture
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 3 months ago
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When those words were uttered at the Academy Awards we knew it would not be Zero Dark Thirty. The film, although critically acclaimed, was criticized for condoning the torture of terrorists. The debate is ongoing about whether the enhanced
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Mobster files 'affidavit of poverty'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Mobster files 'affidavit of poverty,' wants assistance paying for legal fees Vinny 'Gorgeous' Basciano, 53, is serving two life sentences in the nation's toughest Supermax prison in Colorado for separate racketeering and murder convictions. Saturday,
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Broward terror plotter's resentencing date delayed again
Miami :: FL :: USA | 3 months ago
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Resentencing for convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla, a former Broward County resident who became a trained al-Qaida fighter, has been delayed again this time until April 8...District Judge Marcia Cooke issued a brief order postponing the
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Lawyer seeks to ease conditions for '93 WTC bomber
Denver :: CO :: USA | 3 months ago
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Twenty years after the first terrorist attack on Manhattan's World Trade Center , ringleader Ramzi Yousef is still waiting to hear if a federal judge in Denver will lift restrictions that keep him in solitary confinement. Yousef has been confined in
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