Prison
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World
Thousands of Prisoners in U.K. to Be Freed Early to Ease Overcrowding
The Labour government, which took power this past week, said it had been forced into the move because previous Conservative…
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News
For This Drama, Some Actors Returned to Prison by Choice
Alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, ex-inmates shot “Sing Sing” in a decommissioned correctional facility. Then came the screening in…
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World
N.Y. Prisons Have Ignored Limits on Solitary Confinement, Judge Finds
Legally, time in solitary confinement is limited to 15 days, and only if prison officials offer a detailed rationale. Lawyers…
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News
End Legal Slavery in the United States
Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the farthest outpost in America. Many people…
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US
Man Charged as Lookout in Whitey Bulger Killing Admits to Lying to F.B.I.
Sean McKinnon, accused of conspiring to murder the aging mobster in prison, pleaded guilty to making false statements to investigators…
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World
Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War
Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small…
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World
N.Y. Prisons Holding Mentally Ill People in Solitary, Lawsuit Says
A complaint filed by the Legal Aid Society and others accuses the state prison system of holding mentally ill and…
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US
When Prison and Mental Illness Amount to a Death Sentence
Markus Johnson slumped naked against the wall of his cell, skin flecked with pepper spray, his face a mask of…
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Magazine
5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner
Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in…
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World
The Vatican Transforms a Prison Into a Gallery
For its offering at this year’s Venice Biennale, the Holy See chose an unusual venue: the Giudecca women’s prison.