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Latin America
Police walk on the roof of the Litoral Penitentiary on Saturday after riots broke out inside the jail in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Dozens of inmates die in a battle between prison gangs in Ecuador

Nov 13, 2021
A prolonged gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador's largest prison was the latest violence to hit the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw the country's worst prison bloodbath.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative
State prisons are grappling with how to deal with an increase in overdoses due to alcohol and drug abuse.

Overdose Deaths In State Prisons Have Jumped Dramatically Since 2001

Jul 15, 2021
Deaths from drugs and alcohol have increased by more than 600% in state prisons in the last two decades, giving lie to the idea that sending addicts to prison can help them stop using.
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Law
Sonia Doe, pictured here, reached a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections that will make it standard for the state to assign prison stays to a person based on their gender identity, not the sex assigned at birth.

New Jersey Prisoners Will Be Placed Based On Gender Identity Under A New Policy

Jun 29, 2021
As part of civil lawsuit settlement, the New Jersey Department of Corrections has agreed to make it customary for prisoners to be assigned a prison stay in line with their gender identity.
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Criminal Justice Collaborative
The IRS distributed the second round of stimulus money to eligible inmates using debit cards, which state prisons are unable to process. Correctional officials have communicated the problem to the federal agency, but it's unclear what steps the IRS will

Stimulus Debit Cards Unusable For Prison Inmates In At Least Four States

Feb 06, 2021
The debit cards can't be processed in prisons so inmates can't deposit their payments. The IRS has acknowledged the problem, but hasn't offered an immediate solution.
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Newscast headlines

Nevada Inmates At Prison In Arizona Test Positive For Virus

Aug 15, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada prison official says 17 inmates from the state being held at a private prison in Arizona have tested positive for a second time for the new coronavirus.

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Shots - Health News

Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

Jul 16, 2020
Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Prison inmates gather in cramped conditions in Manila's Quezon City Jail. Guards and inmates at the notoriously overcrowded Philippine jail tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, officials said last month, sparking urgent calls for the release of

As COVID-19 Fears Grow, 10,000 Prisoners Are Freed From Overcrowded Philippine Jails

May 05, 2020
"Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we had already been receiving reports on the terrible conditions in the jails that made sickness a normal thing," says a leading Philippine human rights lawyer.
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Shots - Health News
Plainfield Correctional Facility, an Indiana state prison southwest of Indianapolis, listed 89 cases of test-confirmed COVID-19 among inmates and four deaths from the illness, as of Thursday.

Crowded Prisons Are Festering 'Petri Dishes' For Coronavirus, Observers Warn

May 01, 2020
Indiana prisoners say they can't protect themselves from the virus, as the governor resists calls to reduce overcrowding. "Scared for our lives," says an inmate.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

Second Federal Inmate Dies From COVID-19

Apr 01, 2020
On March 31, the Federal Bureau of Prisons began a systemwide 14-day quarantine for inmates to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Inmates point from inside the La Modelo facility in Bogotá, Colombia, on Sunday. Violence broke out in the prison out of inmates' fears that prison guards are not doing enough to prevent coronavirus inside overcrowded prisons.

U.N. Calls For Countries To Reduce Prison Populations

Mar 25, 2020
The U.N. human rights chief says authorities should look for ways to release people in detention who are especially vulnerable to the disease, such as those who are elderly or who have health issues.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
A picture of a cell at the state prison in Florence, Ariz., where attorneys for the Prison Law Office and ACLU found what they called "squalid" and "filthy" conditions on a recent tour.

Prisons And Jails Change Policies To Address Coronavirus Threat Behind Bars

Mar 23, 2020
Some prisons are waiving fees for hygiene supplies and county jails are releasing certain inmates early to combat the potential threat posed by the Covid-19 virus.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Corrections health experts have been urging prison administrators to plan for coronavirus.

Prisons And Jails Worry About Becoming Coronavirus 'Incubators'

Mar 13, 2020
Inmates and guards don't have the option of staying home during a coronavirus outbreak, so detention centers risk becoming "incubators" for the disease. Some are scrambling to mitigate the risk.
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Shots - Health News
Sarah Ziegenhorn and Andy Beeler shared a selfie while hiking in Texas' Big Bend National Park in December 2018. Beeler died of an opioid overdose last March. Ziegenhorn traces his death to the many obstacles to medical care that Beeler experienced while

They Fell In Love Helping Drug Users. But Fear Kept Him From Helping Himself

Feb 24, 2020
Sarah and Andy were in love and also advocates, determined to keep drug users from dying. But when his own addiction reemerged, Andy's fear of returning to prison kept him from the best treatment.
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Law
Hip-hop artist Mysonne, co-founder of the prisoner rights group United Freedom, speaks at a mass rally at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson in January to protest conditions in prisons where inmates have been killed in violent clashes.

DOJ To Investigate Mississippi Prisons After Spate Of Inmate Deaths

Feb 06, 2020
The Justice Department's civil rights division will examine conditions at four state prisons, including the oldest, Parchman, where a prison riot broke out on Dec. 29.
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National
Shane MacLeod is covered head-to-toe in tattoos. He says he's tired of being pre-judged.

Tattoo Removal Programs Help Former Inmates Wipe The Slate Clean

Jan 16, 2020
For people who have been incarcerated, head and neck tattoos are often a barrier to reentering society and getting jobs. Some former inmates are removing their tattoos to help leave the past behind.
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National
Va. Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Friday that he is "deeply disturbed" by reports of a young girl being strip searched at a corrections facility last month.

Virginia Governor Suspends Policy Allowing Strip Searches Of Children At Prisons

Dec 06, 2019
An 8-year-old girl was strip searched at Buckingham Correctional Center last month. A prison spokesperson says the prison staffer who approved the search didn't have the authority to do so.
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Shots - Health News
A view inside Rhode Island's John J. Moran Medium Security Prison, in Cranston. Rhode Island is the only state to screen every individual who comes into the correctional system for opioid use disorder, and to offer, in conjunction with with counseling, a

Rhode Island Prisons Push To Get Inmates The Best Treatment For Opioid Addiction

Nov 19, 2018
The state has started to reduce overdose deaths by offering counseling and medication for opioid addiction in prison. Research finds the treatment helps inmates avoid relapse after release.
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National

Virginia Backtracks On Tampon Ban For Prison Visitors

Sep 26, 2018
The policy, meant to discourage the smuggling of contraband into prisons, was to have gone into effect next month.
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The Two-Way
Striking prison guards light a fire as they demonstrate in front of Villefranche-sur-Saone prison on Monday as part of a nationwide movement to call for improved safety and wages.

French Prison Guards Step Up Nationwide Strike Over Security, Pay Concerns

Jan 22, 2018
The protest follows a series of violent attacks against guards. Unions representing the prison workers are calling for better security and pay raises.
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Law
In this June 18, 2015, photo, a prisoner walks near his crowded living area in Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala. Tuesday's ruling comes in a class action lawsuit brought by inmates who argued the conditions violated the U.S. Constitution's ban

Alabama Prisons Ruled 'Horrendously Inadequate,' Must Improve

Jun 27, 2017
A U.S. District judge issued the ruling Tuesday in a class action lawsuit brought by inmates who argued the prisons' conditions were cruel and unusual punishment.
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Parallels
Imam Yannis Warrach helps prisoners resist radicalization at a top-security prison in Normandy. He says radicals recruit newcomers by "brainwash[ing]" them "little by little."

Inside French Prisons, A Struggle To Combat Radicalization

Jun 25, 2017
Some of the home-grown terrorists who have struck France in recent years were petty criminals who were radicalized in prison.
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Code Switch
After a series of strokes, Sostre could no longer get up and down the stairs of his apartment. His wife worried that their home had become like his solitary confinement prison cell. But Sostre disagreed: "You bring me good food and all the food I want. I

How One Inmate Changed The Prison System From The Inside

Apr 14, 2017
The abbreviated story of Martin Sostre, a revolutionary prisoner who challenged and changed the American prison system from his cell in solitary confinement.
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U.S.
This Jan. 28, 2016 file photo shows a solitary confinement cell at New York City's Riker's Island jail. On March 31, 2016, a federal judge approved a sweeping plan to reduce solitary confinement in New York state prisons.

New York's Solitary Confinement Overhaul Gets Pushback From Union

Apr 04, 2017
Several states across the U.S. are curbing their use of solitary confinements in prison. But in New York, corrections officers say it's a necessary tool to keep the guards and prisons safe.
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Law
Keith Cole is one of the Texas inmates in the federal lawsuit challenging extreme heat in Texas prisons.

Texas Prisoners Sue Over 'Cruel' Conditions, Citing Extreme Heat

Sep 12, 2016
A group of inmates in Texas says poorly ventilated, steel and concrete cellblocks bake like ovens. The inmates are suing the state prison system, arguing the heat is killing older and infirm convicts.
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The Two-Way
Riot police were deployed Wednesday night outside Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Mexico, where at least 52 people died in rioting and a fire.

Riot In Mexican Prison Kills At Least 52, Officials Say

Feb 11, 2016
Nuevo León Gov. Jaime Rodriguez Calderón, whose state includes the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, says some 12 people were hospitalized following Wednesday night's riot.

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