Cigarettes and postage stamps, once the main currency in American prisons, are now less popular than the instant noodles known as ramen. At least that's what a study by Michael Gibson-Light, a research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, says. As Gibson-Light found out, worsening conditions in prisons and lower costs ...
US President Barack Obama says he has not abandoned his plan to close the special prison for terrorism suspects located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 107 people are being held there, many of them have been in prison for over ten years. Speaking on Thursday ...
At the end of October, the American authorities will release six thousand people serving various sentences within three days. This amnesty will be the largest in US history. The authorities had been planning the amnesty for more than a year, and its terms were even shifted so that the government could ...
Three inmates died and five were injured during a riot at the Cushing City Prison, southwest of Tulsa. The prison is owned by the Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America. According to corporation spokesman Steve Owen, riots broke out in one of the buildings in the evening ...
US President Barack Obama visited the prison, thus becoming the first incumbent US president to visit a federal correctional facility. During a visit to a prison in the town of El Reno, Oklahoma, Obama spoke first with its staff, and then with prisoners serving sentences in ...
Last weekend in New York State, two criminals were caught who escaped from a New York maximum security prison. Both the escape and the search for prisoners deserve a high-budget film adaptation, says State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who oversaw the three-week operation to capture the escapees. One of the fugitives, Richard Matt, was killed during the arrest, his partner David Swat was hard ...
The Israeli Cabinet of Ministers has passed a bill according to which prisoners who go on hunger strike will be force-fed. This bill was proposed by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. Back in the summer of 2014, its first version was registered under the name “Preventing damage from a hunger strike.” In the current version...
Russian authorities want to use prison labor to reduce the cost of hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Associated Press reported. According to the news agency, the Russian penitentiary service supports the initiative of the State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexander Khinshtein, who proposes to involve ...
Prisoners of three correctional institutions in St. Petersburg lined up with the words “70 years” and “Thank you for the Victory” in honor of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. A message on the website of the St. Petersburg department of the Federal Penitentiary Service clarifies that convicts from two colonies and…