Federal prisoners, including those with mental illness, are being kept in solitary confinement for long periods of time in violation of federal policy, according to a new report. Although the Bureau of Prisons states that it does not practice solitary ...

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It’s a movie cliché: A bunch of men in white-and-black striped pajamas, with chains around their ankles, breaking rocks in a quarry under armed guard. The media has taught us that prison labor is the natural state of the world ...

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Miguel Moll knew the risk of rape when he was thrown into a Texas jail in 1989 after joyriding in a stolen car. Then 17, he was placed in a holding pen in Houston, and an older inmate said of ...

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ALBANY (AP) — New York corrections officials say they will update the policy for state prisons to preclude placing inmates younger than 18 in segregated housing. The settlement stipulation has been filed in state court in the suit filed by ...

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ALBANY — Several state senators are attacking Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to fund more college classes in New York prisons. One launched an online petition against it. The program would offer associate’s and bachelor’s degree education at 10 prisons, which ...

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A group of women who were sexually abused by male guards while serving time in the state’s prisons wants New York to change its policies to better protect female inmates.

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WESTBURY — Members of several New York organizations Tuesday decried the next round of hearings by Rep. Peter King on what he calls the radicalization of the Muslim-American community. King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California’s cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.

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Overhauling the federal and state criminal justice system sounds like a great idea. After all, our prisons are grossly overcrowded, expensive, and filled with many non-violent offenders, drug addicts and mentally ill inmates. Prison may not be beneficial for them, or society.

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