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Prisons
criminal justice system
2/4/2019
Lawsuit Alleges ‘Inhumane’ Conditions in Frigid Brooklyn Jail
The power came back Sunday after inmates in Brooklyn were stuck in the cold and dark for a week.
prisons
1/8/2019
The Problem With Prison Isn’t Steak and Pie on Holidays
Outrage over federal prisoners being fed well on New Year’s Day while prison workers go unpaid due to the shutdown is ridiculous.
trials
12/7/2018
Finally, Some Real Menace Enters the El Chapo Courtroom
But not from the kingpin himself.
el chapo
11/12/2018
The El Chapo Trial Is Already a Movie Set
The drug kingpin takes the stage in Brooklyn.
el chapo
11/2/2018
Everything about El Chapo’s trial is a secret
The trial for El Chapo starts Monday. But will Brooklyn Bridge be closed every time he’s shuttled across? Everyone who knows is sworn to secrecy.
solidarity
8/29/2018
Inmates Across the Nation Are Striking Against ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ in Prison
How to support the incarcerated people protesting against inhumane, brutal conditions in prison.
power
7/25/2018
Larry Nassar Was Attacked in Prison, Claims His Attorney
His attorney is also arguing that the judge who presided over Nassar’s case emboldened inmates to attack him.
criminal justice system
6/26/2018
Is There Justice for Rikers Inmates Who Accuse Guards of Rape?
The crime that is the women’s jail.
criminal-justice system
6/26/2018
Is There Justice for Rikers Inmates Who Accuse Guards of Rape?
The crime that is the women’s jail.
3/27/2018
What If Prosecutors Wanted to Keep People
Out
of Prison?
George Soros’s semi-secret plan to get progressive district attorneys elected all over the country.
5/12/2017
Sessions Takes First Big Step Toward Bringing Back the War on Drugs
Having fought criminal-justice reform for years, the attorney general is now demanding maximum sentences for low-level drug offenders.
4/5/2017
With Sheriff Joe Arpaio Out, His Notorious ‘Tent City’ Jail Is Shutting Down
Maricopa County’s new sheriff called the facility a “circus.”
11/22/2016
President Obama Has Now Granted Clemency to More than 1,000 Federal Inmates
That’s more than the previous 11 presidents combined.
10/11/2016
New York City Will Stop Putting Teenagers in Solitary Confinement
The decision raises the permitted age for solitary confinement from 18 to 21.
solitary confinement
2/26/2016
Maybe Don’t Laugh at Whitey Bulger’s Masturbation Punishment
He was a terrible, murderous man, but nobody deserves to be subjected to the solitary-confinement system we have in the U.S.
2/3/2016
The U.S. Is Quietly Exonerating 3 People a Week
And a third of them are in one Texas county.
12/16/2015
Inmates in New York Will Soon No Longer Have to Eat Prison Loaf
The state just agreed to change how solitary confinement is used in New York prisons.
criminology
10/8/2015
The Government’s Early Release of Prisoners Is a Big Social-Science Experiment
“There are people who will use anything that happens as evidence that in fact we should be locking people up and throwing away the key, despite all the evidence that that doesn’t produce the results that we want.”
10/6/2015
Justice Department Will Release 6,000 Nonviolent Drug Convicts Late This Month
Great news for the many real-life versions of
Empir
e’s Cookie Lyon.
8/6/2015
What’s Life Like in Zimbabwe’s Prisons?
Dr. Walter Palmer may soon find out.
6/30/2015
For Sale: Upstate New York Prison
For anyone interested in filming the inevitable prison escape movie.
11/18/2014
Rikers Opens New Housing for Transgender Women
To keep them safe.
10/23/2014
Pope Francis Shades U.S. Over Prisons, Torture
“
A sentence of life is a hidden death penalty,” he said.
11/11/2012
Sandy Made Escaping a New Jersey Halfway House Even Easier Than Usual
“
The inmates basically rioted,” said a corrections official.
5/28/2012
69-Acre Waterfront Staten Island Estate Sale
It has a certain
’Shawshank Redemption’ vibe.
Mediavore
2/23/2012
Nudie Bar Patron Shot In the Neck; Conscientious Panda Express Tests Recipes It
Plus: Recreating long-lost family recipes requires detective work and discerning palate; and Panera is planning more pay-optional locations, all in our morning news roundup.
5/23/2011
California Has to Set Some Prisoners Free
The Supreme Court says overcrowding violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.”