Phone Calls Are a Lifeline in Prison. Trump Is Set on Keeping Them Exorbitant.
New federal regulations were set to reel in steep costs for calling loved ones in prison. Then Trump returned.| Articles – Truthout
The FCC voted to remove old rate limits on call charges at jails and prisons. The rates, often levied by companies with local monopolies, will nearly double for incarcerated people and their families.| StateScoop
Can Peru’s New President José Jerí Win His ‘War on Crime’? The “war on crime” proposed by Peru’s new president faces major challenges as he seeks to pull the country out of a spiraling security crisis. The post Can Peru’s New President José Jerí Win His ‘War on Crime’? appeared first on InSight Crime.| InSight Crime
New federal regulations were set to reel in steep costs for calling loved ones in prison. Then Trump returned.| Articles – Truthout
The probation system’s been stripped of leadership and starved of investment| UNISON National
From private prisons to health care scams, the attack on unhoused people is about exploitation, not safety.| Articles – Truthout
It took a grassroots push to win the legislation that offers more pay and an opportunity for reduced prison sentences.| Articles – Truthout
US Senator Chris Van Hollen said Thursday he had been able to meet with 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Van…| France 24
A jury on Monday convicted a former state correction officer of second-degree murder — and acquitted two other former officers — in the killing of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man beaten to death last year inside Marcy Correctional Facility upstate. The verdict against David Kingsley, one of three officers on trial, marks the second conviction […] The post Officer Found Guilty in Robert Brooks’ Murder as Calls Grow to Overhaul Prison Oversight appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
As the Trump administration sends unprecedented numbers of people into detention facilities, researchers and NGOs are raising alarms over an increase in the use of solitary confinement. Our Observer,…| France 24
Uzbek news outlet Kun.uz has published a shocking story of physical and psychological abuse suffered by Gulirano Kosimova, a 34-year-old school principal from the Furqat district of the Fergana region.| Uzbek Forum for Human Rights
Massachusetts will receive more than a billion dollars for opioid remediation—none of it is for prisoners in the Department of Correction| HorizonMass
What do the most effective prison officers do? We’ve observed and spoken with officers, studied analyses of public service work (notably Teach Like a Champion), and drawn on Unlocked Graduate…| Improving Teaching
Leading Prison Landings shares strategies for effective prison work: practical ways to communicate effectively, manage conflict, and promote change. But strategies are like tools: we reach for a ha…| Improving Teaching
It’s hard to become good at a job. It’s even harder in frontline, high-pressure, high-risk roles. We can learn from effective colleagues. But doing so is tricky. Frontline public servic…| Improving Teaching
A private health company making billions in NHS contracts, has troubling record on care of vulnerable patients in prisons and immigration detention centres.| Corporate Watch
Psychiatrists who inspected state facilities cited problems ranging from overuse of pepper spray to intentionally harsh conditions on suicide watch.| Honolulu Civil Beat
State and federal officials gathered in Little Rock on Friday to announce a plan to let prisons and jails use jamming technology to prevent contraband cellphone use.| Arkansas Times
The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News President Donald Trump in early June did something that no president in American history had| Consortium News
Missionary David Lin spent his 17 years behind bars translating the Bible and ministering to his cellmates.| Christianity Today
In Ciudad Juárez, an old criminal guard is being replaced by a new one amid a changing criminal economy on the US-Mexico border.| InSight Crime
A unique camp offers welcoming space for Wisconsin prisoners to spend time with their children, but stigma and other barriers limit its reach.| Wisconsin Watch
The Correctional Association of New York on Tuesday unveiled a new dashboard detailing that the suicide rate at state lock ups spiked 108% last year.| THE CITY - NYC News
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The article written by Sir John Major on prison reform, published in the Sunday Times on 18 May 2025.| The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH
Parce que les tribunaux sont engorgés, des centaines de personnes, pour la plupart démunies, sont incarcérées inutilement. Certaines en meurent, dans des prisons dignes d'une autre époque. Enquête.| L’actualité
This analysis of Illinois Department of Corrections population data explores the lasting impact of Truth in Sentencing laws enacted in the late 1990s and early 2000s.| Loyola University of Chicago Center for Criminal Justice
On the morning of February 25, Fidel Zavala was outside of the office of El Salvador's human rights public advocate (PDDH) to denounce the arbitrary arrests four days earlier of two community activists from Hacienda La Floresta. Zavala is spokesperson for a group calling itself the Unit of Defense of Human and Community Rights (UNIDEHC for its initials in Spanish). UNIDEHC is leading a fight against the expulsion of approximately 250 families from their dwellings at La Floresta. | El Salvador Perspectives
Recent articles in English about El Salvador that are worth perusing: The spring of Nayib Bukele’s relationship with Donald Trump -- El Pai...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
At least six people incarcerated at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison intentionally burned themselves to get transferred.| theappeal.org
With illustrations by Anuj Shrestha and co-authored with Mizue Aizeki. This is the century of homeland security. The federal government created a monster. They said it would keep us safe. The monster hatched in November 2002. It was named the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). An appetite for control and conquest was in its DNA.… The post Homeland Security: Myths and Monsters appeared first on Arun Kundnani.| Arun Kundnani
The Director General of the Office of Prisons Administration, Mohammad Yusuf Mestri, says about 12,000 men and at least 1,000 women, who have been found| Ariana News
Building on our first digital prisoner-facing service The digital Launchpad Product Delivery team went live with the new prisoner-facing Launchpad Home and Launchpad Auth on in-cell prisoner laptops on 4 June 2024. Launchpad Home is the new home page and …| mojdigital.blog.gov.uk
A virtual meeting of the South Dakota Corrections Commission drew calls for transparency and accountability on Thursday.| South Dakota Searchlight
Comprehensive Report Reveals Extensive Human Rights Violations in Central Anatolia Prisons A detailed semi-annual report released by the Lawyers for Freedom Association has laid bare severe human rights violations occurring across various high-security prisons in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Compiled from interviews with inmates and their families, observations by legal professionals during visits,| The Arrested Lawyers Initiative - Volunteer organisation to defend the defenders
In collaboration with the John Howard Association (JHA) of Illinois, we analyzed results from a large-scale survey on the quality of life in Illinois prisons.| Loyola University of Chicago Center for Criminal Justice
This winter, a broad coalition of people disrupted the King County Council meeting where they voted to authorize funds to build the new Juvenile detention center. In response, a judge and several …| Black Orchid Collective
