Old Prisons Are Being Converted Into Stylish Apartments (Really)
The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 ...
Two Prison Inmates Convicted Of First-Degree Murder
Two Salinas Valley prison inmates have been convicted of first-degree murder after fatally stabbing a fellow inmate, the office of Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced on ...
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands
State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...
PBS2d
Flashback: The Little-Known History of Guantanamo Bay
President Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the naval base brings a little-known history back into the spotlight: When the U.S. held Haitian asylum seekers there starting in the early ...
Quad-City Times2d
Quad-Cities man with long court history among those given clemency under Biden
Pachino Hill is scheduled to be released from federal prison about four years early thanks to the last round of clemency orders signed by former President Joe Biden.
Migrants were detained at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. Here’s what to know.
Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba ...
Hosted on MSN11d
When the Flames Rose, So Did the World: A Story of Unity in Los Angeles' Wildfire Response
LOS ANGELES - The fires that raged across Los Angeles' hills and neighborhoods are finally beginning to recede, revealing ...
wokq17d
Eerie and Abandoned Portsmouth Naval Prison Once Dubbed the ‘Alcatraz of the East’
The prison has a rich history. Boston.com explains that the facility sits on an island once home to Fort Sullivan during the American Revolution and Spanish-American War. According to ...
Middle East Eye17d
Syria: Outrage after group paints over 'history and evidence' in prison
A group in Syria sparked widespread outrage this week after painting the walls of a prison, sparking accusations of tampering with history and potential evidence of human rights violations against ...
Associated Press18d
Man gets 2 years in US prison for aiding pushy effort to get ex-official to return to China
Zhu Yong, a Chinese retiree who faces likely deportation from the U.S. after his prison term, expressed regret while suggesting he didn’t initially think through the implications of what he was doing.
The Washington Post19d
After 23 shameful years, close Guantánamo
(Brennan Linsley/AP) President Joe Biden is set to leave office Monday as the third president to try — and fail — to close the U.S. military prison at ... recent American history will persist ...
ScienceAlert19d
Famous 1971 Prison Experiment Wasn't What Most of Us Thought
Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie, published recently in English, documents serious limitations of the study – including that student "guards" were actually coached to ...