prisons
A Definitive Guide to Fixers: Who They Are and What They Do
They are the motor oil in the engines that power certain parts of the world. Some legal. Others less so.
Two Dead After 12 Inmates Tried to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer
Sri Lanka’s Department of Prisons has since banned the COVID-19 protection measure. “We are giving soap instead.”
Alabama Wants to Spend $400 Million in COVID Relief Money to Build Prisons
Just last month, Alabama hospitals were on the brink of collapsing under the weight of the Delta variant’s rampage through the South.
Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
Global Tel Link Corporation says the system would allow an inmate to "for a brief time, imagine himself outside or away from the controlled environment."
Dozens Die in Horrific Fire in Overcrowded Prison
It broke out while inmates in the Indonesian jail were sleeping.
A Company That Designs Jails is Spying On Activists Who Oppose Them
Documents show HDR, Inc. has monitored groups that oppose its controversial plans to build jails and highways.
Faulty Drug Tests Are Finding K2 in Prisoners’ Mail, Lawsuit Alleges
As a result, prisoners are allegedly being given solitary confinement, losing visitation privileges, or facing other punishments.
Biden Finally Released One of Guantánamo's ‘Forever Prisoners’
Abdul Latif Nasser has been held in the U.S. military prison since 2002, though he was never charged with a crime and never received a trial.
Guantánamo Detainees Say Conditions Are Worse Since Biden Became President
“Life here is like a nightmare.”
Contractor Exposed the Movements of People Wearing Ankle GPS Bracelets
A company that sells GPS ankle bracelets and helps Chicago law enforcement run a program to monitor people under house arrest leaked “an enormous amount of private information.”
Massachusetts is Testing Anti-Suicide Bracelets on Incarcerated People
The state's prison system will become the first to evaluate the Fitbit-like devices, which use algorithms to track prisoners' vitals.
A Corrections Officer Allegedly Did Nothing for 15 Minutes as an Inmate Hung Himself
Ryan Wilson hanged himself with a bedsheet tied to a light fixture in New York City's Manhattan Detention Complex, known as The Tombs.