Is 'The Hunting Party's "The Pit" Based on a Real Prison?
The fascinating premise of The Hunting Party may have viewers asking the question: is "The Pit" a real prison, or based on ...
El Paso Walmart shooting case facing more delays and here's why.
The racially-motivated mass shooting resulted in the deaths of 23 people and injured dozens more. The gunman confessed to law ...
Los Angeles Times3d
Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown
NEW YORK — The Trump administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday — a return to a strategy ...
CNN5d
Judge blocks federal prison system from moving three transgender women to men’s prisons
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.
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The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America’s Worst Criminals
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...
CNN5d
Biden promised but failed to end federal use of private prisons. That’s left the industry ready to cash in big under Trump
Just over four years ago on the campaign trail, Joe Biden made a bold pledge to voters that as president he would end the federal use of private prisons – facilities where inmates have long ...
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Five Islamic State prisoners killed trying to escape from Tajik jail, source says
At least five prisoners killed after attacking guards Islamic State prisoners tried to escape Tajik jail Three prison guards injured DUSHANBE, Feb 4 (Reuters) - At least five prisoners who ...
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US envoy says at least six Americans still wrongfully held in Venezuelan prisons
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - There are at least six Americans wrongfully held in prison in Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Richard Grenell said on Monday, three days after ...
Los Angeles Times4d
A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
And it’s a story of organizing across racial lines.” As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit once held hundreds of inmates ...
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Judge rules in favor of 3 transgender women who don't want to be placed in men's prisons
A judge said three transgender women can stay in female prisons because moving them to men's prison wouldn't be safe. There are 16 transgender women in BOP prisons. The current ruling is only in ...
Sydney Morning Herald5d
Not Florence: Italy’s other beautiful Renaissance city (with no tourists)
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the peak of summer, Florence, Ravenna and Bologna are crowded with tourists, but nearby is another beautiful Italian Renaissance ...
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8 Ex-Cons Explain What Life In Prison Is Actually Like — 'Regimented, Smelly, And Monotonous'
My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...