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New York's Rikers Island Has Become a Hotbed For Violence, Wild Parties and Fatal Overdoses Due to Staffing Shortages
Inmates at Rikers Island are partying, smoking drinking and posting TikTok videos of the mayhem due primarily to a shortage of staff. It's wild.
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Namibia: Probe Against Self-Confessed Rapist Drags On
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Sierra Leone Bans Watchdog Group Over Damning Report On Deadly Prison Riot
[Nation] Prison authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a ban on a local watchdog group over a report on a deadly prison riot which occurred last year.
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OP-ED: Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Much of the public outrage has been directed at the officials who have been unable to prevent the fatal spread of COVID-19 in jails and prisons throughout the country. But in addition, there were too many governors who were unwilling to reduce prison populations by releasing
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Probe Into Prison Deaths Ends Up Uncovering $8 Billion in Untracked State Money - L.A. Focus News
Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media What started out as an investigation into inmate deaths in some of California's county jails led to an audit that uncovered severe overcrowding, a lack of mental health resources, and $8 billion in state funds for which three county Sheriff's offices
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Kenya: Proposed Marijuana Law is Lenient on Users but Harsh on Traffickers
[Nation] The offence of possessing cannabis will now attract a lighter sentence but a harsher penalty has been imposed on those found guilty of trafficking narcotics.
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Advocates Call for More Action, Transparency to Protect Nebraska Inmates from Coronavirus : Omaha Star
Bob Wiley knows how it sounds — to say it’s inevitable the novel coronavirus could spread quickly and fatally in Nebraska’s prisons sounds grave. But the 45-year-old has fresh knowledge of these facilities, having just been released January 31 after spending 18 months
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‘Prison was horrible, but I will still do my work as a journalist’ - NewsDay Zimbabwe
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Former Rep. Corrine Brown Released From Sumter Prison to Home Confinement
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Let prisoners go during COVID-19 pandemic
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A Louisiana Black Man Is Serving Life Sentence for Stealing Hedge Clippers, White State Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Review His Case
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Mangochi herbalist jailed 11 years for raping epileptic patient
Mangochi Senior Resident Magistrate's Court has sentenced 68-year-old White Sabineti to 11-years imprisonment with hard labour for raping a 21-year old woman. The court through Prosecutor Sub Inspector Emmanuel Kambwiri heard that the herbalist was consulted to help the woman with traditional
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Former Rep. Corrine Brown Released From Sumter Prison to Home Confinement
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California setting a positive tone for criminal justice reform - Black Voice News
In summary Bills sent to the governor will lead to fewer senseless arrests and fewer people unnecessarily sitting in prison and jail, while saving the state money. By Anne Irwin, Special to CalMatters Anne Irwin is founder and director of Smart Justice California, anne@smartjusticeca.org. For some
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Old, Sick and Incarcerated
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EBONY Rundown: Amber Guyger's Appeal Denied and More • EBONY
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Former Rep. Corrine Brown Released From Sumter Prison to Home Confinement
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Big rush on
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Tshegofatso Pule murder: Alleged mastermind fears for his safety, court pauses prison transfer | News24
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‘God arrested me:’ How Derrick Ervin Went From Life Sentence to Life Saver
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Uganda: We Were Reluctant to Charge Dr Nyanzi, Says DPP
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Former South African Pres. Jacob Zuma Released From Prison Due to Illness 
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End Of Queensland’s Era Of For-profit Prisons – The Omaha Star
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Florida Sheriff Tells Residents to Shoot Looters As More Rioting Follows George Floyd’s Death – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Man jailed five years for threatening to stab sister | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
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