Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks. That’s because conservatives are behind a growing push to criminalize pregnancy outcomes nationwide, in part by giving full rights to fetuses. And while abortion opponents have long claimed they do not want to […]| Mother Jones
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
The Montana Department of Corrections is planning to expand and renovate Boulder’s Riverside Correctional Facility, a low-security women’s prison. The project will double the capacity of the 50-person compound in the next several years. DOC spokesperson Carolynn Stocker said the agency has not yet determined the renovation’s cost. This is the first major project to come from House Bill 833, a $250 million spending package championed by John Fitzpatrick, R-Anaconda, aimed at increasing t...| Montana Free Press
Video: The Military is Going to Leave Ecuador’s Prisons – What Comes Next? Last week, Ecuador announced it would begin to withdraw military forces from the prisons, over a year and half after deploying them to break criminal control. The news marks the beginning of the end of a policy that has been an inflection point in the country’s criminal history. The post Video: The Military is Going to Leave Ecuador’s Prisons – What Comes Next? appeared first on InSight Crime.| InSight Crime
The Tocorón Takeover Tocorón Prison was the most notorious in the country and the main sanctuary and center of operations of Tren de Aragua. The post The Tocorón Takeover appeared first on InSight Crime.| InSight Crime
Bolívar: A New Sanctuary for Tren de Aragua? In Bolívar, Tren de Aragua does not operate like the prison-based megabanda that expanded across the region. Instead, it functions as a sindicato – the term used for criminal groups involved in illegal mining in Venezuela. The post Bolívar: A New Sanctuary for Tren de Aragua? appeared first on InSight Crime.| InSight Crime
The Journalist’s Resource and The Marshall Project recently hosted a webinar on staffing shortages and extreme heat in prisons. Here are 4 takeaways that can inform your coverage — plus, watch the full webinar recording. The post Covering staffing or dangerous heat in prisons? Here are 4 things to know appeared first on The Journalist's Resource.| The Journalist's Resource
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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EXCLUSIVE The Gangsters' Paradise where Brit criminals go on the run in the sun packed with suitcases full of cash, cocaine kings, death angels, crime bosses and a Ferrari in every car park| Daily Mirror
CoreCivic says inmates at a Tennessee prison sought to destroy property, compromised security cameras and set a few fires during a riot that took hours to contain and caused minor injuries to three inmates and one guard.| WPLN News
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:| El Salvador Perspectives
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
