"Individuals held in Mississippi's prisons are dying because Mississippi has failed to fund its prisons, resulting in prisons where violence reigns because prisons are understaffed," the lawsuit alleges.
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A 1994 study of Texan prisons found that wardens in female prisons demanded total compliance but those in male prisons did not.
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They used to study private prisons in particular and compare them to public prisons using data from tens or dozens of prisons.
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Abuse in prisons is not limited to private prisons at all.
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"Prisons, particularly American prisons, are violent and dangerous places," Little tells me.
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Prisons in China cannot be compared to prisons in the United States.
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In 2017 the Federal Bureau of Prisons instituted a policy mandating that federal prisons provide menstrual hygiene products to incarcerated women in the federal prisons.
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There are thousands of prisons, including local jails and state prisons, all across the country — 122 of which are run by the Bureau of Prisons.
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Think of school desegregation orders that required busing, or funding requirements to turn prisons that looked like plantations into prisons that looked more like, well, prisons.
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Private prisons are on a par with public prisons, safety and quality-wise.
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Most inmates are held in state prisons and local jails -- not federal prisons.
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Many are being held in military prisons, high-security prisons or intelligence services installations.
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The 13 prisons don't make up a big part of all the prisons in America or even a big segment of private prisons overseen by the federal government.
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That's why we have well over two million people in prisons right now and probably 80 to 85 percent of those are in state prisons, not necessarily federal prisons.
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On average, they confiscated eight times as many contraband cell phones as public prisons, suggesting the prisons are less secure, and the private prisons also relied more on solitary confinement.
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Private prisons Biden claimed that he had been involved with a bill that ended private prisons.
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Generally, privately run prisons — known as "contract prisons" — house low-security inmates, typically undocumented male immigrants.
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Private companies win contracts to manage federal prisons by undercutting the Bureau of Prisons' operational costs.
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The Bureau of Prisons has a nationally regulated menu for all-women prisons across the country.
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ADX Florence inmates are held in specially designed "control units" that function as prisons within prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons, which oversees federal jails and prisons, is part of the Justice Department.
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This is something that happens in all kinds of prisons, of course, not just private prisons.
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These prisons make up a small minority of the Bureau of Prisons facilities (around a dozen of 2100-plus federal prisons), but this move has drawn criticism from liberals and criminal justice reformers who view private prisons as a hotbed for abuse in the name of profiteering.
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Private prisons Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates last August directed the Bureau of Prisons to restrict its use of private prisons, a formal shift away from their use in federal incarceration.
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In "Turn Prisons Into Colleges," Elizabeth Hinton writes: Imagine if prisons looked like the grounds of universities.
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Generally, privately run federal prisons — known as "contract prisons" — house low-security inmates, typically undocumented male immigrants.
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Soleimani currently holds a leadership position within the State Prisons Organization, which oversees the Tehran Prisons Organization.
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Sessions sent a memo in February directing the Bureau of Prisons to continue to use private prisons.
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After all, state prisons hold nearly 90 percent of the 21990 million people locked up in US prisons.
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Prisons are the same way: State prisons and local jails hold about 87 percent of the incarcerated population.
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"The Bureau of Prisons contracted with private prisons because of an outdated and unsubstantiated theory that private prisons were not only more effective at holding inmates but also economical," the senators wrote in their letter.
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That's not the mission of private prisons in the US. The private prisons in the US are about business.
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And federal prisons hold just a fraction of America's 2.3 million prisoners, while state prisons hold more than half.
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Private prisons took off because governments could not build prisons quickly enough to hold all the people they sentenced.
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These prisons hold 21,287 inmates, 96% of whom are non-US citizens, according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesman.
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It didn't have the super-thick tension in American prisons—in California prisons, the feeling of tension is omnipresent.
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Private prisons had many more assaults on inmates and prison workers than those run by the Bureau of Prisons.
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Schools and universities were evacuated, and two nearby prisons transferred inmates to other jails, a prisons service spokesman said.
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That memo told the Bureau of Prisons to begin reducing and ultimately end its use of privately run prisons.
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Approximately one-third of the country's prisons are so-called open prisons, where inmates live and work like normal citizens.
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In 2016, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the end of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' use of private prisons.
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Their relationship with the Bureau of Prisons dates to 1997, when harsh federal sentencing laws stretched public prisons to capacity.
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Why it matters: Private prisons tend to hire fewer guards than state and federal prisons and often are more dangerous.
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The African Prisons Project Ouko's education was made possible by Awori's reforms and the efforts of the African Prisons Project.
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Kamala Harris asked the Federal Bureau of Prisons to provide information on how the outbreak is being handled in prisons.
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Two relatively new private prisons have contracts that give them bonuses for doing better than government prisons at cutting recidivism.
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"I had been to different prisons back home -- from 'Mini' to 'Max,'" Will said, referring to security levels at prisons.
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Travis Dusenbury: It wasn't like any of the prisons I'd been to, and I've been to a lot of prisons.
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SB: To me, the point of the story is not to say that private prisons are worse than public prisons.
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Rory Stewart, the ambitious new prisons minister, has promised to resign if conditions in prisons do not improve within a year.
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For example if the political focus changes to the age of publicly owned prisons, this would be good for private prisons.
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So the comparisons weren't to high-security facilities, but other low-security prisons run by the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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Though federal prisons hold fewer inmates than state prisons, a larger percentage of federal inmates are serving time for drug crimes.
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These cases contribute to the $39 billion taxpayers spend on prisons each year — prisons that are increasingly operated by private companies.
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Min Tun Soe, a spokesman for the Myanmar Prisons Department, said it was normal practice to censor communications in the prisons.
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The facilities themselves are easily compared to prisons, and problems common in prisons are also issues in immigration detention centers for adults.
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Between fiscal years 2011 and 2014, the Bureau of Prisons increased its spending on private prisons from $562 million to $639 million.
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There are wholly private jails and prisons, public jails and prisons with privatized health care and all manner of public-private partnerships.
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So the comparisons weren't to high-security facilities, but to other low-security prisons run by the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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Warren would end federal contracts with the Bureau of Prisons and Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detention facilities and private prisons.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has directed all prisons to provide female inmates with pads, tampons and panty liners free of charge.
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One would think that decreasing private prisons, increasing psychological help, and increasing education opportunities would cost more, but by implementing these changes prisons would likely decrease in population over time — to an extent — and result in spending less on prisons.
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So if President Trump reverses legalized recreational marijuana, we'll continue to have a need for private prisons and private prisons will remain full.
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Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued an August memo directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to end its use of privately operated prisons.
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Solid Competitive Position: Public prisons are generally overcrowded, and the supply of new public prisons has been modest over the past five years.
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According to the Danish Prison Officers Union, Danish prisons have reached maximum capacity, and in most prisons inmates are forced to share cells.
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Prisons have been re-organized around the problem of foreignness, with "foreign national only" prisons introduced (for example, HMP Huntercombe and HMP Maidstone).
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Prisons not only have violated human rights and failed at rehabilitation; it's not even clear that prisons deter crime or increase public safety.
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Workers were offered jobs at other prisons, and the state is working with communities to develop economic proposals in places where prisons closed.
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The Department of Justice also recently announced that its Bureau of Prisons will begin phasing out the use of private contractors for federal prisons.
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In 1968, Honeywell and IBM launched clerical and computer programming classes in Massachusetts prisons, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons followed suit in 1975.
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Earlier this week, Peter Clarke, the chief Inspector of prisons, told the Guardian that synthetic cannabis is having a "devastating impact" on British prisons.
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Other prisons followed, building on ranchland already owned by the territorial correctional department, explains Stacey Cline, who directs Cañon City's Museum of Colorado Prisons.
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Congress currently lacks meaningful oversight over federal prisons, which is why prisons are consistently overcapacity, halfway houses are underutilized and federal prisoners have suffered.
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In state prisons alone, there are 34,000 women incarcerated for violent crimes versus 29,400 women incarcerated for drug crime in state and federal prisons.
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This may seem technical, but the technical distinction matters, because you can't resist prisons by arguing against slavery if prisons don't engage in slavery.
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"With prisons I do think we can do a lot of privatizations and private prisons," Mr. Trump said on the campaign trail last year.
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It seems counter to their business to suddenly be working on electronic monitoring when they were previously operating prisons or implementing technologies within prisons.
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" AGAINST THE NIGHT Among the places you might not want to go on late-night excursions with your friends, "abandoned prisons" rank roughly third, behind only "haunted abandoned prisons" and "haunted abandoned prisons once run by wardens who turned their inmates into biochemical test subjects.
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So the comparisons in the 2016 OIG report weren't to high-security facilities, but to other low-security prisons run by the Bureau of Prisons.
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They need to keep the prisons full, so the prisons can show a profit for the shareholders of the privatization that is running the prison.
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African Prisons Project (APP), a charity founded in 2016 by UK barrister Alexander McLean, works to provide education and healthcare in prisons on the continent.
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I'm the founder of Christians for the Abolition of Prisons, an organization that believes the closure of prisons is a promise of the Christian faith.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced its ban Friday, joining most states and some counties taking the same measure in their own prisons or jails.
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More than 6,600 people died in the country's prisons between 1999 and 2015, Human Rights Watch reported, citing data from the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons.
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"As with all deaths in custody, there will be an investigation by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman," a spokesman for Britain's Prisons Service said.
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For example, a 20173 study of three states that opened supermax prisons showed no subsequent statewide reduction in violence among those housed at the prisons.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons said in an email that only four of the more than 100 prisons run by the agency have full-time rabbis.
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For-profit prisons "consistently and substantially" hold immigrants 85033 days on average, longer than the 33.3 days on average in public prisons, according to the outlet.
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Though Miami was ordered to evacuate, Miami's prisons did not; the facilities sustained only minor damage, according to a statement from the federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Prisons adapt to influx of detainees The Oregon facility is one of five federal prisons reportedly adding a total of 1,600 beds to house immigrant detainees.
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But the ideas that private prisons are the culprit, and that profit is the motive behind all prisons, have a firm grip on the popular imagination.
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And the Government Accountability Office has concluded time and again that there is simply no evidence that private prisons are more cost-effective than public prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons, which runs federal prisons that hold more than 175,000 people, suspended all visits to prisoners for 30 days, including most by lawyers.
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The lawsuit argues that though California can choose not to contract private prisons in the state, they cannot stop the federal government from operating private prisons.
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"The answer is not to build more prisons and the answer is certainly not to privatize those prisons," she said as the audience erupted in cheers.
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"We found that in a majority of the categories we examined, contract prisons incurred more safety and security incidents per capita than comparable BOP institutions," the report concluded, based on its analysis of 14 private prisons and 14 public prisons from fiscal years 2011 to 2014.
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When Biden said "I didn't support more money to build state prisons," Bates said, Biden did not mean he had opposed any additional spending on state prisons.
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Changing the way that we think about prisons means that we need to change the way that we think about the justifications for and uses of prisons.
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The lack of access to adequate treatment outside of prisons will need to be addressed along with access inside of prisons to fully address the opioid crisis.
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Nearly half of inmates released from federal prisons and placed under supervision, and three-quarters of those from state prisons, are rearrested within five years of release.
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However, most of the inmates held in private prisons are from states, so there is not much the federal government could do to directly abolish private prisons.
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So the comparisons in the 2016 OIG report weren't to high-security facilities, but to other low-security prisons run by the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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The Biden plan includes an end to mandatory minimum sentences, private prisons, incarceration for drug use alone, cash bail and the placement of juveniles in adult prisons.
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It found that private prisons were more violent and problematic than public prisons by many measures, including discovery of contraband like cellphones, reports of assaults, and lockdowns.
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Today about 9 percent of those behind bars in 28 states and in federal prisons — more than 23,000 people — are in prisons run by the private sector.
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Corporate-owned prisons took the prison system private, and then lobbied for policies that result in poor African-Americans being locked up to keep the prisons full.
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Violent week for state prisons The escapes came after a week of disturbances at Mississippi prisons that left five inmates dead, including three at Parchman, officials said.
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A 2016 Justice Department report found that there were more safety and security problems in private prisons than in those run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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" : "No, private prisons — we are against those.
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That's including jails, state prisons, federal prisons; [Americans make up] about 25 percent of the world's population and 247 percent of the world's incarcerated people; we have more jails and prisons than any other country on the planet; more people behind bars than any other on the planet.
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The Last Mile, which first opened its doors in 2012, is live in five prisons throughout California, including two women's prisons — one in Chino and one in Folsom.
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When I quit working at the prisons, I went to work at two different middle schools, and I'm telling you, it's damn near like working at the prisons.
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Yet nearly $7 billion is spent annually by the Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate 85033,000 people in federal prisons, half of whom are there for a drug offense.
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The Bureau of Prisons had resorted to such prisons to ease overcrowding as the incarceration rate soared, but the number of federal inmates has been dropping since 263.
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It is not their fault, or the prison's; society has chosen prisons to be the places that manage these problems, and prisons aren't the right place for them.
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Corrections officers are concerned about their safety, too Reducing visitor traffic at prisons may help slow spread of the disease to corrections officers, without whom prisons can't run.
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Majority of inmates are housed in local prisons Hundreds of prisoners have already begun being released from locally run prisons after state and municipal authorities made early moves.
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Mississippi prisons The Justice Department will launch an investigation into several Mississippi prisons after a series of inmate deaths and reports of rampant violence, corruption and unsanitary conditions.
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But the majority of those in state prisons are people convicted of violent offenses: In 2015, 22.1 percent of people in state prisons were in for violent crimes.
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But as criminal justice expert John Pfaff pointed out, public prisons have some of these problems, too: States have to pay for keeping public prisons open even if they don't have enough inmates for full occupation, and that may create an incentive to fill up public prisons, as well. 2B.
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Approximately 2,20153 inmates from two prisons along the river were being evacuated and sent to other prisons that have bed space, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Sunday.
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Devens is one of two federal prisons that house sex offenders who volunteer for what the Federal Bureau of Prisons describes as "high-intensity programming" to prevent re-offending.
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According to federal statistics, only 5.3 percent of drug offenders in federal prisons and 27.9 percent of drug offenders in state prisons in 2004 were in for drug possession.
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The private BOP facilities don't make up a big part of all the prisons in America or even a big segment of private prisons overseen by the federal government.
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They make up less than 3 percent of the national population but 10 percent of the inmates in federal prisons, and represent the fastest-growing group in such prisons.
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Released by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, the Life in Prison: Food report inspected prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales, and drew on existing prison food research.
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To offset the spending increases, the Justice Department plans to close two of its six Bureau of Prisons regional administrative offices and two of its seven minimum security prisons.
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A 2001 report from the Department of Justice found the rate of inmate-on-inmate violence at private prisons was 38 percent higher than the rate at public prisons.
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And prisons can access funds that traditionally went elsewhere — for example, money goes to county jails and state prisons for "mental health services" rather than into public health generally.
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In 2018, I contacted the 50 state agencies that control prisons, as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, to find out whether they offered medications for opioid addiction.
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" CoreCivic: "No, private prisons — we are against those.
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Non-violent drug offenders make it possible for private prisons to be full—that's why the vast majority of people locked up in private prisons are non-violent drug offenders.
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More Tampons & Pads In Prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons mandated that facilities offer female inmates a variety of tampons and pads for free, increasing access to the necessary products.
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Bad guys are found in prisons, yes, but in Belgium, we have additional kinds of bad guys because ISIS and al-Qaeda recruiters have long used our prisons to recruit.
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California prisons are illustrative of this trauma-to-prison pipeline: the ACLU reports that 92% of all women in California prisons have suffered physical or sexual trauma in their lifetimes.
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Why do you think private prisons—but also prisons in general—have little or no accountability when it comes to staff conduct and behavior and how the prisoners are treated?
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While Texas and Florida authorities safely relocated most of the inmates in the state prisons, the men and women who were locked in our federal prisons were not so fortunate.
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Farhad Khosrokhavar, the author of a forthcoming book, "The Prisons of France", says a more realistic estimate is 40-50%, with 60-683% only in certain big prisons near Paris.
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"This is my life now — I have probably been in more prisons than anybody," Deborah, who has been invited to work with women in more than 30 prisons, tells PEOPLE.
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A few weeks later, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memo directing the federal Bureau of Prisons to phase out the use of private prisons as existing contracts expired.
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Weinstein might just be the tip of the iceberg in NYC and NY State prisons -- at least 19 inmates in NYC prisons and 12 employees have coronavirus, the NYC Dept.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requested the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) release prisoners who are vulnerable to coronavirus to prevent an outbreak in federal prisons.
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Brazil's existing four federal maximum security prisons - which have not seen rioting - are close to overflowing as more and more convicts are being sent from state prisons following the riots.
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That has meant medical staff, teachers, food service workers, and other prison employees in prisons like Victorville are frequently being put on guard duty to cover the prisons' basic functions.
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The Department of Justice then announced it would close its private prisons, and the Department of Homeland Security—which uses private prisons for immigration detention facilities—suggested it would follow suit.
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Eric Young, president of the Council of Prisons Locals, representing 30,20083 employees in federal prisons, said when union members asked federal prison officials about getting Tasers, they typically got two responses.
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Shortly before President Barack Obama left office, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates sent out a guidance stating that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) would phase out its use of private prisons.
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When we take the drug addicted and we treat them in the prisons, we stop the revolving door of people in and out of prisons, and we save $22,500 a year.
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Meliker said Bureau of Prisons contracts make up about 11 percent of GEO's business, when excluding interests in halfway houses; Bureau of Prisons contracts make up even less of CCA's revenue.
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State prisons spokesman Jerry Higgins said he also had no tally of how many prison workers have been assaulted at other prisons across the state since the Pasquotank attack Oct. 12.
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"The Island" Since the privatization of prisons looks like it's going to get worse before it gets better, Peele has the perfect opportunity to take for-profit prisons to the extreme.
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Smaller, state-owned prisons are being closed, and the trend toward private prisons seems to be on the rise, something that Alfred views as pointing towards an ever-expanding prison population.
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All state prisons are currently on lockdown, according to Fox News, though Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jayme Gravell said it is standard practice to lock down all state prisons during emergencies.
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Formerly incarcerated people also need SNAP because it helps them feed their children: 85033 percent of individuals incarcerated in state prisons, and 63 percent of those in federal prisons, are parents.
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Instead, Governor Andrew Cuomo expanded opioid treatment in prisons and jails across the state: with $4 million distributed to counties and $1.2 million to state prisons under the latest state budget.
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In a June report, the Bureau of Prisons stated that in 2016 there were three substantiated cases of "staff-on-inmate" sexual misconduct across its more than 100 jails and prisons.
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The official noted that those who were rounded up in the operation were being held not in prisons, but rather inside the same compounds as the prisons in a separate area.
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While the continued existence of private prisons is increasingly being called into question, the reality is that closing private prisons will change little about the criminal justice system as a whole.
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" Another simply asked, "Do prisons make you feel safer?
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Which categories of criminals are placed in open prisons ?
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" Prisons and Probation Minister Sam Gyimah tweeted: "Words matter.
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I don't believe in — You don't believe in prisons?
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Among other things, the bill would order the Bureau of Prisons to expand the availability of programs in prisons with the goal of reducing recidivism, increase the time some prisoners can become eligible to serve their sentences in custody outside of prison and mandate prisons provide tampons and sanitary napkins to prisoners as needed.
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" Other changes, per NPR: The manual's purpose has shifted from the language: "To ensure the Bureau of Prisons properly identifies, tracks, and provides services to the transgender population," to, "To ensure the Bureau of Prisons properly identifies, tracks, and provides services to the transgender population, consistent with maintaining security and good order in Federal prisons.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons made an important adjustment this month requiring that female prisoners have more access to tampons and pads, according to an August 1 Bureau of Prisons (BOP) memo.
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Prisons minister Sam Gyimah said there was a "clear" threat posed by drones, and that the government was "absolutely determined to tackle the illegal flow of drugs and mobile phones" into prisons.
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The announcement follows the release of a report by the Office of the Inspector General that found that for-profit prisons did not measure up to prisons run by the federal government.
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The stocks began to slide in August after the Department of Justice announced it would instruct the Bureau of Prisons to begin phasing out the use of private contractors for federal prisons.
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Though a federal review found private prisons are more dangerous than government-run prisons for both guards and inmates, the Trump administration indicated earlier this year that it will expand their use.
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Prohibitions on using federal money for private prisons at the state level could be attached to those grants, but that does not mean states won't fund private prisons from state tax dollars.
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To see if dyslexia is also common in other prisons, one of us, Laura, recently screened and tested inmates for dyslexia in two of the three prisons in which Bill previously worked.
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While new inmates have continued to report to prisons throughout the crisis, the Bureau of Prisons has suspended internal inmate transfers between facilities to try to minimize the spread of possible infections.
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Sesha Patel from Wilmington, N.C., believes that prisons are meant to rehabilitate criminals, and that education is the key to doing so: There's no doubt that prisons are necessary atmospheres in society.
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Prisoners in multiple Alabama prisons, at least two other Florida prisons, Fluvanna women's prison in Virginia, and prisoners in North Carolina and South Carolina all reportedly engaged in various forms of resistance.
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In Scandinavia, a prison-abolition movement led to, if not the eradication of prisons, a shift to "open prisons" that emphasize reintegrating people into society and have had very low recidivism rates.
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US Attorney General William Barr has also asked the Bureau of Prisons to increase the use of home confinement with older inmates to decrease the risk of coronavirus spreading in federal prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons has yet to release its coronavirus planOf the 2.3 million incarcerated Americans, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) holds a total of 175,135 inmates across the country.
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A broader invasion could reach the prisons, and it would set off an armed conflict that could prompt the Kurds to pull guards from prisons so they could instead join the fight.
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Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates noted in a memo that while private prisons were useful when public prisons were overflowing, they made little sense now that the prison population was falling.
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The federal prison system has suspended in-person visitations for 30 days at its 122 prisons, and local jails and state prisons have followed suit, including the entire California Department of Corrections.
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" According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' statement on visiting, "The Bureau of Prisons encourages visiting by family, friends and community groups to maintain the morale of the inmate and family members.
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" The Federal Bureau of Prisons responded by pointing to a statement that AFGE Council of Local Prisons president Shane Fausey released, thanking the Trump administration and bureau Director Michael Carvajal for their "swift, decisive, and unprecedented actions taken to combat the COVID-19 virus and its ominous threat that it poses to our nation's federal prisons.
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Mardini disclosed that ICRC officials made 43 visits to government-run central prisons last year, which hold more than 15,000 detainees, and two visits this year to prisons with close to 2,000 detainees.
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In 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union published the results of an investigation that alleged private prisons in Texas offered far less rehabilitative programs and work opportunities than Bureau of Prisons-run institutions.
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Thursday's filing alleges that the Bureau of Prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are violating the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Bureau of Prisons' own guidelines on religious freedom.
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" Asked about the comments, and whether he was implying that the deaths were an inevitability, the governor said he was referring to "the history of prisons and the history of people in prisons.
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A 2016 Justice Department report found that private prisons were more likely to have rule violations than government-run facilities, confirming what advocates have long said about private prisons being cruel and inhumane.
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A federal review from 2016 found private prisons are more dangerous than government-run prisons for both guards and inmates; the Trump administration indicated earlier this year that it will expand their use.
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In mid-August, the Justice Department's inspector general issued a report finding that privately operated federal prisons are more dangerous than those managed by the federal Bureau of Prisons and need more oversight.
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An 2016 memo ordered the Justice Department to reduce the use of private prisons after a DOJ report revealed they had higher rates of contraband, violence, and use of force than public prisons.
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Those who become policy wonks will understand how prisons work.
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Mexican prisons are severely overcrowded, and riots frequently break out.
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Which is why, increasingly, some prisons are leaning into beauty.
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Airports, prisons, stadiums, other event venues, border protection, critical infrastructure.
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These prisons are racist, violent and routinely violate human rights.
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There's very little profitable labor going on in the prisons.
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The government does not formally acknowledge that black prisons exist.
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End private prisons -- which we did in our bill -- period.
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Many of Brazil's prisons are effectively run by organized crime.
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"We're not about filling prisons," Rosenstein told the Associated Press.
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Thousands of inmates in state prisons have been evacuated too.
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CNN: You also go back into prisons to offer encouragement.
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Prisons are also grappling with new problems caused by spice.
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How were you able to get access to these prisons?
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What was it like to first step into the prisons?
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But the government has accepted that prisons have big problems.
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Thirteen of the federal government's 146 prisons are privately run.
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The problem was, we knew prisons, but not detention centers.
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The place is huge, like six small prisons in one.
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Prisons in France and Belgium have incubated many jihadist terrorists.
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Texas and Florida together housed 24,404 inmates in private prisons.
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The company has a presence in prisons across 35 states.
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In the United Kingdom, they also include prisons and stadiums.
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Finally, the 3310 would be a real success in prisons.
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Sorrentino must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons beginning Jan.
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In rural areas, where prisons usually are, workers are scarce.
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He must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons beginning Jan.
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Idaho's prisons have had similar restrictions for the past year.
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France has a long record of radicalization in its prisons.
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Nine gang leaders are being transferred to maximum security prisons.
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That Mexican prisons are a mess will surprise few people.
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Many prisons combine overcrowding with a skeleton crew of guards.
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We get order after order from people from the prisons.
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Most prisons in this country were overcrowded at that point.
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Rimac said such schools were "prisons and factories of hatred".
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I cannot argue with the premise that prisons revoke freedom.
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After shooting OG, how has your opinion on prisons changed?
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Anne Marie Heckscher: Denmark has both open and closed prisons.
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TURKEY has good news for inmates of its crowded prisons.
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He said the group was targeting a senior prisons official.
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Juveniles would also be barred from adult jails and prisons.
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Now the program is in five female prisons in Oklahoma.
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They're very common in prisons, at least in this state.
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Mark Inch to head up the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Its nearly 200 properties include castles, follies, cottages and prisons.
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The Pentagon surveyed prisons in Colorado as potential relocation sites.
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Only three companies operate private prisons in Britain, for instance.
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How do you get the money interests out of prisons?
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"Prisons do not create criminals," he said in the report.
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Federal prisons will also rehabilitate and heal - not just punish.
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Texas closed eight prisons, saving money and improving public safety.
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A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment.
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Federal prisons, unlike airports, are often located in rural areas.
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"The prisons need decongestion as soon as possible," he says.
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There were not enough guards at five of the prisons.
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Torture and other forms of abuse are common in prisons.
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It funded the building of more prisons in the states.
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"We're not a country that has debtor prisons," says Linder.
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They don't burden your schools, the police department, your prisons.
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Prisoners have so far declared strikes in eight Israeli prisons.
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Do they feel safer by making our prisons more dangerous?
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Check out our documentary on modern debtors' prisons in America.
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Most prisons have a general practitioner, but not an endocrinologist.
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Read This Next: Another Way Prisons Treat Women Like Shit
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They just started doing it in jails and prisons instead.
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Syria opened its prisons for the first time in Sept.
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He spent nine years in Soviet prisons and the gulag.
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Read: Jeff Sessions wouldn't end the use of private prisons.
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In a rare visit, a Times reporter toured the prisons.
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Mollot worried that nursing homes were becoming more like prisons.
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Thus, cellblock populations rapidly grew, and prisons became alarmingly overcrowded.
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The two former leaders are being held in separate prisons.
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Holman, like many other prisons in Alabama, is chronically overcrowded.
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They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought.
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The only thing on offer is prisons, prosecutors and police.
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Still, too many await death by hanging in Egyptian prisons.
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The actions haven't been limited to jails and prisons, either.
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The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the case.
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Some prisons have made masturbation, even without porn, an infraction.
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Why not "Prison Week" or "Games and Prisons: A Series"?
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They had curve and swing and didn't feel like prisons.
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Our high recidivism rate is a measure of prisons' failure.
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Mr. Reid spent time in 20 prisons over 40 years.
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I've been in both prisons and immigrant detention centers before.
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By my 24th birthday, I had called five prisons home.
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Jails and prisons present different problems for addressing the outbreaks.
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Earlier this month, he toured ISIS fighter prisons in Syria.
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Some 100,000 people are said to live in these prisons.
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As of March, there were 15,20163 officers in federal prisons.
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His murder unleashed further unrest and retribution within other prisons.
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Critics also allege that private prisons lack transparency and accountability.
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And the Department of Justice can close only federal prisons.
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In prisons, failure to detect inmate radicalization can be disastrous.
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"We don't want to invest in private prisons," she said.
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Federal prisons move to alter policies that protect transgender people.
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Ms. Haspel briefly oversaw one of those prisons, in Thailand.
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The two other upstate prisons that were sold remain idle.
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Prison reform doesn't happen in response to violence in prisons.
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For several days, all of the prisons were locked down.
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The government tortured people and held them in secret prisons.
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Prisons have historically existed in a binary world, he said.
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The latest prisons data, published on July 25th, are grim.
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The jail is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
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In recent years, private prisons have seen their values soar.
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Homes for unwed mothers, welfare hospitals, and prisons were targeted.
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This is even more pronounced in states with private prisons.
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But privatization is likely to sweep through not only prisons.
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Prisons, of course, cannot release people based solely on age.
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We need to change the way our prisons are run.
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It's not hard for the gangs to recruit in prisons.
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The state's prisons have made some improvements in recent years.
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The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a query about how many prisons had already adopted the books policy, nor to identify the private vendor or explain the reason for the price markup.
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Now, the decision would have only affected a small portion of prisons in the US and across the country, since only 122 prisons out of thousands in the US are run by the BOP.
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Prisons are notoriously hard to report on, and that's even more true with private prisons, which have pushed for extended secrecy about their affairs even as the number of inmates they house has grown.
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In August, DOJ announced that its corrections subsidiary, the Bureau of Prisons, would phase out the use of private, for-profit prisons, after an inspector-general report found lapses in safety, security, and oversight.
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The New York Times spoke with more than a dozen workers in the Bureau of Prisons last week who said the Metropolitan Correctional Center and other prisons were ill-prepared for a coronavirus outbreak.
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In a study of prisons in nine states, Chris Petrella, a lecturer at Bates College, found that private ones avoid taking sick and elderly inmates, since health care is a huge expense for prisons.
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"If they (Turks) come into an area with obvious prisons and the SDF withdraws from those security positions around those prisons, we expect the Turks to take them over," he said in a briefing.
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He gained unfettered access to six prisons in Texas, including the Jim Ferguson unit in Midway, and emerged with a portfolio of images of the guards, the prisoners, their interactions and the prisons' conditions.
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Top photo by Bob Jagendorf via WikipediaThis post originally appeared on VICE UK.British prisons are pretty unpleasant places, as myriad reports and the recent spate of riots in prisons across the country will attest to.
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Bureau of Prisons, trans and gender-nonconforming people who are serving time in federal prisons must be given access to the health care they need even if they weren't getting that treatment before being incarcerated.
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The TDCJ has also set up an emergency command center in Huntsville, operating 24-7, delivered additional food and water to the East Texas prisons, and delivered sandbags to the prisons at risk of flooding.
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In publicly owned prisons, managers might underinvest in quality-improving measures, but private owners face too strong an incentive to cut costs, leading to conditions for prisoners that are worse than those in public prisons.
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The news of no evacuation at South Carolina's prisons comes on the heels of nationwide strikes and protests by inmates to demand an end to forced prison labor and frequently inhumane conditions in US prisons.
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Last August, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced a plan to wind down the bureau's reliance on private prisons after an inspector general report found that they posed higher security risks than public prisons.
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Buttigieg connects both issues to the larger fight against the "profit motive" in federal prisons, noting that he would push to abolish private prisons and pressure states to "significantly reduce" the use of private contractors.
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There are many more examples of faith based programs instituted within local jails, state prisons and federal prisons that have proven to be effective in reducing recidivism through training addressing values, vocational, and skills deficits.
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A third of deaths within jails are caused by suicide — a rate far higher than that of prisons (jails are for people being held before trial and prisons are for people who have been convicted).
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Should current quarantine measures in other prisons not prove sufficient, it is possible that more low-risk people could be released from jails and prisons in an effort to implement a system of safe treatment.
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Asked whether private prisons served a necessary function — the industry has donated to his campaigns — Cuellar quickly said that the critics of private prisons had created an issue rather than understanding crime on the border.
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And while this rings true in many federal prisons -- where nearly half of all inmates are locked up for drug charges, often serving lengthy sentences -- it's a different story in state prisons and local jails.
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By pushing to expand prisons and lengthen sentences across the board, Nixon and his immediate successors presided over a fundamental shift in the way American policymakers thought about incarceration: Prisons were for punishment, not rehabilitation.
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But Prison rights advocates say they shouldn't forget about the prisons.
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It's been a rough start to the year in Brazil's prisons.
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The past few years have not been kind to private prisons.
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Most prisons around the world are consolidated into one single building.
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"Police and prisons are no solution to domestic violence," Rosa explains.
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Meanwhile, the rest of us need to rethink prisons and punishment.
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Last year, 13 inmates died from K2 overdoses in Arkansas prisons.
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It&aposs insulting to the Muslims in prisons in those countries.
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ICE to transfer 21968,600 immigrant detainees to federal prisons, report says.
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"The releases are part of the prisons reform agenda," he said.
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Here's why prisons are among the worst places to handle outbreaks.
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Birmingham was one of the few older prisons in private hands.
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We read about Nixon's war on drugs and about narcotics prisons.
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Prisons are usually among the most expensive budget items for states.
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But courts have delayed releasing from prisons some 2,000 FARC members.
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A monitor could also identify practices worth replicating at other prisons.
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On the first count, most prisons succeed, but at a cost.
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So did earlier promises of revolutions in railways, prisons and more.
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Where they are growing more and more is within Paraguay's prisons.
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So, the prisons were filled with people [arrested] under those laws.
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Belgium has "satellite prisons" with more monitoring and better-trained staff.
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I've visited prisons where men are like, 'I was sexually abused.
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Those prisons are rough, they're rough places and bad things happened.
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French and Belgian prisons have proven to be universities of jihad.
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We've outlawed debtors prisons in this country and for good reason.
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Unauthorized drones have also been known to smuggle contraband into prisons.
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Prisons need to keep drug-carrying drones away from the walls.
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France's experiments with deradicalisation have been disappointing, notably in its prisons.
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Go deeper: Axios' special report on how companies profit from prisons
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I started counting up the prisons and imprisonments in the book.
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According to Legend, the whole philosophy behind prisons is deeply flawed.
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Some European countries already have problems with radicalisation in their prisons.
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Some liberals cast private prisons as a driver of mass incarceration.
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Mentoring young men in prisons across London, Bennett noticed a trend.
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Prisons have been the government's drug-littered problem since the 1970s.
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In some state prisons, including Texas, inmates don't see a dime.
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What will the decline in prosecutorial discretion mean for America's prisons?
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"Prisons were not supposed to be a warehouse," Mr. Cuomo said.
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Prisons are expensive—cells must be built, guards hired, prisoners fed.
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Even the much-criticised prisons are beginning to play a part.
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The public sector union keeps prisons open to keep guards paid.
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Moreover, there's no sign private prisons have even perpetuated mass incarceration.
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Overcrowded and violent prisons are common throughout much of Latin America.
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In state prisons, it went up 30% from 2013 to 1003.
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He served nine years in California prisons, partly with Charles Manson.
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Silverstein died May 803, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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That could bring the total population in private prisons to 22,894.
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You said that going into prisons has taught you a lot?
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The deal involves five federal prisons, including one in Sheridan, Oregon.
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He escaped twice from Mexican prisons, enhancing his "Robin Hood" reputation.
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Roughly 60 percent of all inmates are placed in open-prisons.
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We want most offenders to serve their sentences in open prisons.
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The recidivism rate in open prisons is close to 19 percent.
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He estimates these reforms will benefit 10,000 inmates in federal prisons.
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"It's huge, what the Bureau of Prisons has done," James said.
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The units are installed in prisons which are already shockingly overcrowded.
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He said he was devoting his life to reforming America's prisons.
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Phil Bryant to get behind a law to end debtors' prisons.
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Stop incarcerating families seeking refuge in private prisons at taxpayer expense.
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A Times investigation shows that American prisons hold 443 convicted terrorists.
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It's not just academic studies that have exposed private prisons' perfidy.
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They build castles of achievement or prisons of fear and doubt.
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Venezuelan prisons are notoriously overcrowded and filled with weapons and drugs.
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It also shows that fewer inmate deaths occur in private prisons.
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In federal prisons, 9 per 100,000 inmates ended their own lives.
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The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment further to The Hill.
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Some prisons have basketball and tennis courts available to inmates too.
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A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the death.
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We had 40 officials we submitted in time for the prisons.
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The bill included $9 billion for the construction of federal prisons.
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AI is also being used to determine which prisons a convict
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The governor is facing his own crisis in the state prisons.
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The Hazelton prisons badly need those 42 positions filled, Tarovisky said.
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Florida prisons hold 382 people who have been sentenced to die.
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But getting rid of prisons is also a non-secular cause.
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In the chaos, some Islamic State prisoners escaped from SDF prisons.
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It's not clear from ETNAM's report how full the prisons are.
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Eleven people are dead after protests erupted in 27 prisons Monday.
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No states were reporting outbreaks at prisons as of Saturday morning.
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Andy Beshear said Wednesday, announcing visitation bans in Kentucky's state prisons.
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I spent five years in Florida prisons between 2006 and 2011.
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The country released 54,000 prisoners to prevent outbreaks in its prisons.
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One draft memo seeks to bring back torture and secret prisons.
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Mr. Grant has spent time in both federal and state prisons.
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Lawmakers have rightly recognized the wisdom in turning prisons into colleges.
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But prisons are arguably a very inefficient way to do that.
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Prisons are overflowing and have become cesspools of disease and overcrowding.
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The nation's prisons are equipped to hold only about 400,000 people.
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The report does not include data from state and local prisons.
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The SDF is responsible for all ISIS prisons in northern Syria.
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In Italy, coronavirus restrictions prompted mass riots in dozens of prisons.
|
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Riots broke out in prisons as prisoners reacted to the news.
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"The Bureau of Prisons really protects its prerogatives," Dr. Jacobs said.
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So suppose you do the study in prisons, said Dr. Jones.
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The widespread concern about coronavirus outbreaks inside prisons is well-founded.
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It could be one of America's thousands of jails or prisons.
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But most jails and prisons still aren't fully prepared, Winkelman said.
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Prisons, dilapidated and overcrowded, are a prime recruiting ground for terrorists.
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Here's an explainer on the prisons, which hold about 26,225 men.
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How much of the $40.9 billion endowment is invested in prisons?
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In the end, will the Kurds maintain control of the prisons?
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But fewer than 1 percent of jails and prisons allow it.
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How are rival gangs able to effectively control the country's prisons?
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Go deeper: Axios' deep dive on the business of private prisons
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In 2017, only 23% of private prisoners were in federal prisons.
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By the nineties, prisons had become America's dominant mental-health institutions.
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In 2013, Florida privatized all the health services in its prisons.
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This is not the case with most other prisons across Afghanistan.
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Prisons Minister Iris Varela suggested the cannibalism claims might be exaggerated.
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The Manhattan prison is run by the federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Yang, a businessman, would end the use of for-profit prisons.
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He had paid $600 for the smartphone — contraband in prisons nationwide.
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The book club's first selection is Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?.
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The rapper's mom is threatening to sue the Bureau of Prisons.
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All five defendants claim to have been tortured in CIA prisons.
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Coal and prisons, Sexton figured, were bargains with the same devil.
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Private-prisons are a stain on our broken criminal justice system.
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Nearly 200,000 people were sexually abused behind prisons walls in 2011.
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Some prisons have staff vacancy rates of 85033 percent or higher.
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No staff or other inmates were injured, the prisons bureau said.
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No other inmates or staff were injured, the prisons bureau said.
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Hammond's AntiSec was instead primarily virulent towards capitalists, prisons, and police.
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"I wish there were prisons like that in Venezuela," he said.
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The prisons here are operating at around 21985 percent of capacity.
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The Pentagon surveyed prisons in Colorado as potential relocation sites. Rep.
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"In Russian prisons, people are often tortured and killed," Arshak said.
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No laws have since changed regarding temperature controls in federal prisons.
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That's right, our prisons get priority to bid on uniform manufacturing!
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It's not just abortion, it's people in prisons being treated terribly.
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So the pilot was carried out in two rural prisons instead.
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It's surprising how little contemporary fiction has emerged from American prisons.
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I've been in prisons in Russia where prisoners labor for profit.
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Through his company, Griffin also has a stake in private prisons.
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She wanted the living conditions in French prisons to be improved.
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On Tuesday, The Bureau of Prisons' website showed Manafort was there.
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It applies to health care in other settings, such as prisons.
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Prisons soon returned to solitary confinement as an inmate-management strategy.
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US prisons are also beginning to heed the imperative to change.
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That's not something you find in private prisons as a whole.
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Still, the end of BOP's use of private prisons was seen as a victory among liberals who have long condemned the use of private prisons, buoyed by a report from the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) that found serious problems and more frequent reports of violence at privately run, for-profit federal facilities compared with federal public prisons.
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The rise has anti-private prison advocates worried about the future of detention in the US. A Bureau of Prisons report on 14 private prisons found that they treat prisoners poorly in comparison to public ones.
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This suggests the possibility of switching to a formula Tabarrok has summarized as "more police, fewer prisons, less crime": uniformed officers patrolling the streets stopping crime before it starts rather than working in prisons surveilling convicts.
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In 2016, the last year of President Barack Obama's tenure, the Justice Department announced it would phase out private prisons, one of the reasons being that their costs were not substantially lower than government-run prisons.
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Turkey says it has captured some 200 IS detainees who fled prisons in the area of its offensive and has transferred them to other prisons under the control of Turkish forces and its Syrian rebel allies.
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Last week's Justice Department decision to not renew 13 contracts with companies managing incarceration facilities for the Bureau of Prisons—and phase out of all federal private prisons over time—has cracked that foundation, perhaps irreparably.
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Immigrant detainees at two Ontario prisons have been on hunger strike for over two weeks now in an effort to pressure the government to stop holding immigrant detainees indefinitely and placing them in maximum security prisons.
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Prison operating companies nose-dived after the Justice Department said it would end or sharply reduce contracts with them, saying privately run prisons have more problems with safety and security than prisons run by the government.
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But other parts from the 2017 bill are worth implementing, such as banning federal prisons from charging prisoners for their phone calls and requiring the Bureau of Prisons to implement video conferencing technology free of charge.
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Contemporary Russian prisons have used intravenous drips for hunger strikers, said Valery V. Borshov, a member of a civilian oversight group for prisons, but the cruder funnel-and-tube form also remains an option for jailers.
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A 248 Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) survey, for example, found that 3 percent of women in federal prisons and 4 percent of women in state prisons said that they were pregnant when they were admitted.
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More than a million Americans would remain imprisoned even if those held at private prisons were released, and many state and federal facilities suffer from the same poor conditions for-profit prisons are said to have.
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According to the Bureau of Justice, 225,000 women were behind bars in 2017, 99,000 of them in state prisons (jails contain people awaiting trial or serving short sentences, whereas prisons house people convicted of more serious crimes).
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There's no other way to explain why today black, brown and Hispanic citizens are more than 60% of the nearly 2.2 million people in US prisons - the most in the world, according to Bureau of Prisons statistics.
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Some states found their supermax prisons underpopulated — there weren't enough of the worst bad guys, apparently — while at the same time there were bed shortages in mainstream prisons, so they relocated other prisoners to the supermax units.
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A survey of Afghan prisons this month by The New York Times concluded that at least 25 children are imprisoned with their mothers nationwide, according to interviews with officials at 253 of the country's 225 provincial prisons.
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In total, the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will stop contracting with private operators at 20013 prisons — although the terminations could take years as the federal agency lets existing contracts expire instead of ending them prematurely.
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By improving the contracts with private prisons and changing the incentives, we can make private prisons more accountable and hopefully more effective in curbing the endless cycle of arrests and incarceration that plague our criminal justice system.
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For example, a group of Democratic Senators, led by Elizabeth Warren, have demanded that private prisons communicate their Covid-19 safety plans, and nonprofit organizations have offered concrete policies that could slow outbreaks in prisons and jails.
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And while the state has said it'll work to address the incidents that spurred the lockdown, advocates say officials aren't addressing the root cause affecting conditions at three state prisons, 15 regional facilities, and three private prisons.
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Edwin S. Budge Seattle, Washington According to the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics estimate, fifty-six per cent of inmates in state prisons and forty-five per cent of inmates in federal prisons have mental-health disabilities.
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In AHS: Cult, mental health facilities are essentially used as prisons. O.g.
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Works means chiefly the construction of schools, prisons, roads and the like.
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The guidance to the Bureau of Prisons would only affect federal prisoners.
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In a Town Hall with MSNBC in June, he praised private prisons.
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No national standards govern the use of Tasers in jails and prisons.
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Private prisons are notorious for inmate suicides and violence on their grounds.
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These prisons cut costs, deny medical care and serve barely edible food.
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The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request seeking comment.
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Whelan is currently being held in one of Moscow's most infamous prisons.
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The state of prisons in Britain has made headlines in recent months.
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But not before they spent between six and 14 years in prisons.
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New York (CNN Business)Friday was a bad day for private prisons.
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Al-Maysari said earlier that he has no control over the prisons.
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In those prisons and those camps you have a lot of people.
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Transgender rights in prisons or women's shelters raise hard public policy questions.
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Now police are sending some to clandestine prisons where they are tortured.
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By the 1990s, there were 772 programs in more than 1,000 prisons.
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Locking up drug users in prisons rife with drugs usually doesn't help.
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This research has informed recent public debates about private prisons in America.
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And other research is mixed on whether private prisons actually save money.
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Prisons around the world use a variety of tools to prevent recidivism.
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The Generalitat controls not just schools and hospitals but police and prisons.
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Prisons are both hellholes and headquarters for Brazil's most powerful criminal gangs.
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Many of the missing reappeared in prisons bearing torture marks, he said.
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And getting into places they shouldn't — prisons, R&D centers, public spaces.
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Most of them were later transferred to different prisons around the country.
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She wrote the book Inmates Who Menstruate, about female prisons in Brazil.
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That's not including those who were sent to adult jails and prisons.
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Others tour prisons, signing up inmates to work immediately on their release.
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That's about 15 percent of the 123,000 people incarcerated in Missouri's prisons.
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Women were quietly taken from their homes and put in secret prisons.
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They are also used to smuggle contraband across borders and into prisons.
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Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
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Phone companies offer generous payments to private prisons in exchange for contracts.
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Fo Penitentiaire operates France's prisons and is referred to as a union.
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"Prisons are rough, they're rough places, and bad things happened," Trump added.
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Federal, state and local prisons make up most of the remaining revenue.
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None of this is to say private prisons aren't fraught with problems.
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You'd have to be pretty naive to believe prisons are drug-free.
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"Private prisons are a recipe for abuse and neglect," said Carl Takei.
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The facilities being used to detain these immigrant families are prisons. pic.twitter.
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By year's end, the program will be active in three additional prisons.
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She once suggested that prisons ought to be "tough, unpleasant and uncomfortable".
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Another large group: roughly 200 medical officers with the Bureau of Prisons.
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Prison reform focuses on reducing recidivism through programs and training within prisons.
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I believe that prisons are not the way that we help people.
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Forty-six percent of women in prisons are survivors of domestic violence.
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CAR prisons only hold a segment of the country's private prison population.
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But the conditions in these prisons in the 250s were not good.
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It's also very difficult to get this kind of data on prisons.
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Policymakers should work to transform prisons from punishment factories to rehabilitation facilities.
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In 2628, we incarcerated nearly 28500,6900 people in state and federal prisons.
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The controversy Critics of private prisons contend they are inefficient and inhumane.
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I've always hated walking into prisons—and it's not any easier now.
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El Chapo, who escaped twice from Mexican prisons, was rearrested in January.
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Plus, it goes deeper than that, with the privatization of our prisons.
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There are a lot of "senators" in America's federal prisons these days.
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The Bureau of Prisons eliminated protections for trans people who are incarcerated.
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Culturally, it has glorified punishment and further violence by building more prisons.
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Yet election officials regularly send absentee ballots to prisons for misdemeanor convicts.
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The interior ministry, which oversees prisons, could not be reached for comment.
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Presidential candidates have staked out some ambitious-sounding policies on prisons. Mrs.
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His eldest sister was later captured and disappeared in the Derg's prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons inmate locator shows that Zarrab was released Nov.
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Thousands of Americans are locked up in state prisons for drug possession.
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I never imagined we were going to build twenty-three new prisons.
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January 2017 that killed over 120 people in prisons throughout the country
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That would allow the C.I.A. to once again open secret prisons overseas.
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It's hardly news that American prisons and jails can be dangerous places.
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Felons convicted in the District of Columbia are sent to federal prisons.
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She spends time in American prisons as well, typically with convicted jihadists.
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At one of California's most notorious prisons, baseball teams take the field.
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It's unclear just how common freeze frame policies are in America's prisons.
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The anger of protestors can only be calmed with infirmaries or prisons.
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This year, noise protests took place outside Pentonville, Holloway, and Brixton prisons.
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To operate 25 prisons per year, it costs the state $2 billion.
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Hunger strikers have been handled roughly in Russian prisons over the years.
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JT was officially released Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons tells TMZ.
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In northern Syria, makeshift prisons hold suspects accused of fighting for ISIS.
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Beyond pragmatic considerations, philosophical questions have dogged private prisons from the start.
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A public health catastrophe is rapidly spreading through our prisons and jails.
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Overall, Alabama's prisons are at 178 percent over capacity, state records show.
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"[B]uilding and filling prisons is not making people safer," Roodman wrote.
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With these conditions, Hannibal says, prisons are like modern-day slave plantations.
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Op-Ed Contributor Imagine if prisons looked like the grounds of universities.
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Graph seems to imply we just emptied the hospitals into the prisons.
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Give me 100,000 cops, build more prisons, and get on with it.
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The thousands of dissidents languishing in Egyptian prisons might beg to differ.
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Dade and Homestead Correctional Institutions are the two southernmost located state prisons.
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Off-the-shelf drones have been used to carry drugs into prisons.
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You walk into American prisons, like this one, and it's a dungeon!
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And the private prisons appeared to provide inadequate medical care to inmates.
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Still, where private prisons do exist, they seem to pose extraordinary problems.
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Prisons are violent places because they are cut off from public view.
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The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request for comment.
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But the image of prisons overflowing with murderers and rapists is wrong.
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These hideous structures bisected neighborhoods into what look like open-air prisons.
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Knowing what is happening in prisons in real time is notoriously difficult.
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Some will be released, and others will be transported to state prisons.
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Israel and other countries closed immigrant prisons after domestic and international outcries.
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The Bureau of Prisons has sole discretion over where to send inmates.
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Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist You just can't construct prisons for babies.
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Rhode Island has expanded access to treatment in state prisons, for example.
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Mr. Bulger got to know quite a few prisons over the years.
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Keeping people in prisons costs money, he said, while fines raise money.
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But private prisons have turned out to be neither better nor cheaper.
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In America's jails and prisons, people share bathrooms, laundry and eating areas.
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Adelanto is one of the deadliest immigration prisons in the United States.
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The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment and referred to Barr's comments.
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Agencies from the State Department to the Bureau of Prisons are understaffed.
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The Kurds normally do not let journalists tour their ISIS fighter prisons.
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The remaining population can be found in county jails and state prisons.
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There are about 80,000 inmates in solitary confinement in the nation's prisons.
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When that happens, some prisons require other workers to fill the gap.
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That would not affect the Kurds' ability to keep running the prisons.
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Two of the prisons are in Hubei Province, where the epidemic originated.
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But it's just not true that private prisons in California are gone.
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Sadly, there have been no major changes in how prisons are run.
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"Everyone says the federal facilities are better than state prisons," Aidala said.
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People also called for the release of hunger strikers in Iranian prisons.
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"The disciplinary system has been weakened in our prisons," the association said.
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Jails and prisons are expensive and ineffective approaches to deal with it.
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"These questions should be directed to the Bureau of Prisons," he said.
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"Mental-health staff in prisons all too often acquiesce," Fellner told me.
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Rates in federal prisons dropped as well, but by a smaller margin.
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This policy reversal is indefensible given the track record of private prisons.
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The three all-male prisons do not house any death row inmates.
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Several prisons in El Salvador are overflowing with over 600 percent capacity.
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Through direct contracting, private prisons could continue to incarcerate immigrants in California.
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They get a part of the over-all money available, like prisons?
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The DOJ's Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday new contraband regulations for inmates.
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It is a quarter of the sum the state spends on prisons.
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Temer said the problem would not be solved by building prisons alone.
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A disproportionate number of people of color fill federal and state prisons.
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Bureau of Prisons records show that he was released in September 2015.
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The Bureau of Prisons must apply the good time credit fix retroactively.
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He still performs in prisons, but not for those convicted of terrorism.
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The FBI has traced most of them to inmates in Mexican prisons.
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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons could not immediately be reached for comment.
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There are no federal laws mandating temperature control in prisons and jails.
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Since October, there have been at least five shootouts in Honduran prisons.
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California passed a bill in October that effectively bans for-profit prisons.
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It was in-depth, practical, detailed project work in schools, prisons, etc.
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It's long been known that the conditions in private prisons are dismal.
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Two of the company's call centers in Oklahoma are in state prisons.
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Other reports listed "the worst Canadian prisons" and described harsh prison conditions.
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These prisons are supposed to provide some semblance of care to inmates.
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Often, jails and prisons just don't have the resources to do so.
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They are often kept in detention centers that are akin to prisons.
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Some reforms have been driven by actions from within prisons and litigation.
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How come you're writing to the director of the Bureau of Prisons?
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They can't afford to pay for prosecutors or prisons to protect us.
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"The biggest violator of federal disability laws are our prisons," Huffman says.
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I was in two different prisons: Port Rashid and Dubai Central Prison.
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Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced on Thursday that the department will begin phasing out the use of private prisons over the next few years, with the goal of ultimately ending the federal use of privately operated prisons.
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Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced on Thursday that the department will begin phasing out the use of private prisons over the next few years, with the goal of ultimately ending the federal use of privately-operated prisons.
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But if Clinton is elected, her goal faces roadblocks such as overcrowding in government-owned prisons and the fact that the federal government does not oversee state prisons, said Eric Marshall, portfolio manager with Hodges Funds in Dallas.
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Exacerbating that: Private prisons, and Trump's support for them — over two-thirds of immigrant detainees are held in prisons run by private companies, which the DOJ found have more safety and security problems per capita than their counterparts.
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Democratic strategist Julian Epstein said the Bureau of Prisons would probably need to expand or acquire more space, but federal prisons are no longer as overcrowded a trajectory as they once were, due to changes in drug policy.
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"We can confirm that Joaquin Guzman is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons at United States Penitentiary (USP) Administrative Maximum (ADX) Florence, located in Florence, Colorado," the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
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And though the practice of shackling pregnant and laboring women was banned in all federal facilities by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2008, regional and state prisons can still decide whether or not to implement these guidelines.
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"I am eager to enlist your help in beginning the process of reducing—and ultimately ending—our use of private operated prisons," wrote DOJ Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in a memorandum to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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The great majority of criminal prosecutions take place at the state level: About 211,000 people are locked up in federal prisons, compared with 1.3 million in state prisons, according to this useful chart from the Prison Policy Initiative.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week sent a letter to the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) requesting that prisoners who are vulnerable to coronavirus be released to prevent an outbreak in federal prisons.
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When you consider that the government still spends money monitoring private prisons, and that it's stuck running the parts of the system that private companies thought were money losers, the case that private prisons save money looks shaky.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons and officials from multiple state and city prisons, including those that house women, declined to address the topic, citing fantasy sports' ties to gambling or denying that their prisoners participate in the games.
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The Inspectorate of Prisons, which scrutinizes the condition of prisons across England and Wales, reported that many inmates felt frustrated for not being able to leave their cells to do purposeful activities in the day, which led to violence.
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A US defense official told CNN on Wednesday that while the SDF had reduced the number of personnel guarding the prisons, the US military believes that all of the prisons continue to be guarded, albeit by fewer SDF troops.
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Editorial President Obama sent a powerful message last week when he barred federal prisons from holding juveniles in solitary confinement and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to undertake sweeping changes in how solitary is used throughout the federal system.
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The potential increases are laid out by the US Bureau of Prisons in a notice for beds in Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) facilities, privately-managed prisons primarily for non-US citizens convicted of low-level drug and immigration offenses.
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Under his leadership, the Justice Department in 1992 issued a report, "The Case for More Incarceration," in which the three primary sections were entitled: (I) Prisons work; (II) More prisons are needed; and (III) Failure to incarcerate costs money.
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She gets people thinking about interconnections among larger structures that lead to the creation of prisons, and also interconnections among groups of people that might work together to resist the building of prisons — like environmental activists and teachers' unions.
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Brazil's largest cocaine cartels are waging a bloody war in the country's prisons Brazil's largest cocaine cartels are waging a bloody war in the country's prisons São Paulo, Brazil — A war between Brazil's two largest criminal organizations has erupted.
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Often it's to reach inaccessible places, such as across borders and into prisons.
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"This fight isn't really about stopping cell phone smuggling into prisons," said Meinrath.
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We did it all: more police, more prisons, more treatment and more prevention.
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Ultimately, he said, Taser shifted its focus away from state and federal prisons.
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But this money won't go to more prisons, police officers, and soldiers overseas.
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Eisen said more than two dozen states had private prisons at the time.
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Today, Kerman teaches nonfiction writing classes at two state prisons in Columbus, Ohio.
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The Bureau of Prisons began funneling non-citizens into the for-profit facilities.
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A prisons service spokesman said there are currently 278 inmates on death row.
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You wouldn't be alone, and Angela Davis begins her book Are Prisons Obsolete?
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So how ingrained must prisons be for us to take them for granted?
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They want to make it a crime to fly drones anywhere near prisons.
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Prisons are long-term facilities run by the state or the federal government.
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And prisons would be abolished; we'd have restorative justice instead of punitive justice.
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But all this crazy shit happens in prisons, and nobody knows about it.
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So the American prisons were actually better than the British ones back then?
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I've been to prisons, not on a research project, but to visit relatives.
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Andrew Yang Yang, a businessman, would end the use of for-profit prisons.
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At least five state prisons were evacuated due to the threat of flooding.
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The combination of heavy use and harsh laws has resulted in overcrowded prisons.
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Last December, Congress passed the First Step Act, which applies to federal prisons.
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The websites of many state prisons feature public, searchable databases of their inmates.
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An "abolitionist" faction wants campaigns to shut all prisons, even disbanding police forces.
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The number of women in state prisons fell by less than 1% (0.29%).
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British prisons are overcrowded, unsanitary, and mostly unprepared to deal with disease outbreaks.
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"Bibles have always been a source of reading material within prisons," says Ayala.
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Other states with the death penalty, and federal prisons, have less strict conditions.
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And in those prisons and those camps you have a lot of people.
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Conditions in these prisons and society in general exacerbate the spread of radicalism.
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It's part of Pennsylvania's innovative new approach to mental health care in prisons.
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They're still serving out life sentences in Oklahoma prisons, according to inmate records.
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Next up was the growing problem of contraband phones at jails and prisons.
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Those protests actually began in response to reported problems in South Carolina prisons.
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I was transferred to a Bureau of Prisons–contracted juvenile facility in Montana.
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They're still serving out life sentences in Oklahoma prisons according to inmate records.
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You'll casually wonder aloud to strangers whether debtor's prisons are still a thing.
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Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted about about her plan to terminate private prisons entirely.
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Around 50 were released from two prisons in the capital Yaounde after midnight.
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It was a few years after that private prisons started to come in.
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Companies like JPay cover the price of installing the systems; prisons pay nothing.
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It also prompted calls for a crackdown on use of smartphones inside prisons.
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The conservative Australian government describes the facilities as immigration detention facilities, not prisons.
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The state uses both publicly and privately run prisons; Lee Correctional is public.
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Pennsylvania's prisons are mainly located in rural areas and provide good-paying jobs.
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They have enough prisons to make the US the world's leader in incarceration.
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That would have brought the inmate population in private prisons to under 14,200.
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Today, blacks and Latinos are overrepresented in our jails and in our prisons.
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Among them are low wage growth, high health-care costs and overcrowded prisons.
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On the campaign trail, Rubio has said private prisons are a state issue.
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The additional sites included in Tuesday's plan include other federal and military prisons.
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More than 46 other prisoners will be moved to other prisons in Para.
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And the big employers in town include prisons and the local school district.
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We're not going to force you into treatment or into jails and prisons.
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People often ask me if I am traumatized when I return to prisons.
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Just last year, a bloody riot in South Carolina's prisons drew national headlines.
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Deaths are frequently reported in prisons from New York to Texas to California.
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Plenty of private prisons with offloaded inmates from state-run facilities dot America.
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In Syria, he was tortured in Bashar al-Assad's prisons for nine months.
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I've worked in the prisons, and I see where these kids wind up.
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We visited Britain's women's prisons (Cell block tango) and Afghan refugees In limbo.
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The goal is to ultimately end the department's use of privately operated prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons did not immediately return BuzzFeed News's request for comment.
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Problems in South Carolina's prisons began coming to light long before the riot.
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Prison: The Bureau of Prisons is expanding a drug treatment program for inmates.
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The detainment facilities were harshly criticized by some as "internment camps" and prisons.
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They can overhaul police departments and prisons into more humane and compassionate institutions.
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It's time for New York State to take back control of its prisons.
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Unemployment in Adelanto remains above 10 percent, and prisons are the primary employers.
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" "As we speak, legislation is working through Congress to reform out federal prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons also did not respond for a request for comment.
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Parts of the federal government have realized that private prisons produce worse outcomes.
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"We are very concerned about the ... potential for detainee releases from the prisons."
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Myanmar regularly orders such releases from its overcrowded prisons to mark the holiday.
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By the time Matar arrived, Libya's prisons, including Abu Salim, had been emptied.
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Here are 7 photos that show what prisons in the country look like.
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Here are 7 photos that show what prisons in the country look like.
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Here are 7 photos that show what prisons in the country look like.
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World Politics Review: What are the main drivers of violence in Brazil's prisons?
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The detainees will be split between five prisons, with one in Victorville, Calif.
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Though Rocky is in a remand prison, Sweden also has maximum-security prisons.
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Criminal investigations were conducted in Poland and Lithuania over secret C.I.A. prisons there.
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Attempts to establish an independent ombudsman for the state's prisons have gone nowhere.
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In most prisons, they peered at visitors through a mesh or plexiglass screen.
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Today, GEO Group operates 141 prisons, detention centers and community re-entry facilities.
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These days, he holds three or four concerts in different prisons every year.
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The government has not said when either of the two prisons will open.
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The largest single item in the department's budget is the Bureau of Prisons.
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Below, a sampling of prisons that have opened their doors to thrill-seekers.
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Each of the three prisons for men would house at least 3,500 inmates.
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No staff or inmates were injured in the attack, the prisons bureau said.
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Sometimes you can hear night terrors—there's plenty of PTSD in America's prisons.
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Presidents, too, have the power to grant clemency to people in federal prisons.
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In that sense, the epidemic of sexual violence in prisons makes perfect sense.
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According to experts, the reasons prisons are failing women particularly badly are complex.
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How can that be when 86 percent of inmates are in state prisons?
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State prisons are operating between fifteen and twenty-four per cent above capacity .
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Former detainees have spoken of torture and medical experiments in camps and prisons.
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Andrew M. Cuomo ordered an investigation of racial bias in New York prisons.
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There are as many as 200,000 women in prisons across the U.S. today.
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Plasma-buying companies tend to set up shop around prisons and skid rows.
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Education in prisons serves the same purpose: encourage the avoidance of further crime.
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Every Monday, a population report of all prisons in the UK is released.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: Consider the purpose of prisons.
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However, due to its high alcohol content, it is considered contraband in prisons.
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The statement from the Bureau of Prisons increased suspicion around Mr. Bulger's death.
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The piece has been updated with a response from the Bureau of Prisons.
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Most of the French government's new effort will be concentrated in the prisons.
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But Trump's win has turned the prospects for private prisons around almost immediately.
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But there are also complaints in some prisons about excessive reliance on overtime.
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"He has failed for his duty to protect our prisons," Mr. Mandio said.
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"The prisons of the D.R.C. are all in very bad states," he said.
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Jails and prisons have a notoriously bad track record of providing health services.
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Court papers say a Bureau of Prisons official denied that request in August.
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"I worked to end private prisons in California, and they're gone," Steyer said.
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If people understood what's going on in prisons it would shock anyone's conscience.
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But for most jails and prisons, such programs are out of the question.
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It is not clear whether any male fighters have yet escaped the prisons.
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In 2017, more than 120 inmates died in prisons across several northern states.
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The men were transferred to new prisons, at opposite ends of the state.
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Private companies promised safer, more innovative prisons at a fraction of the cost.
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Our schools, hospitals, prisons and welfare systems don't embed people in thick relationships.
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At present, the regional government oversees education, health, some infrastructure, policing and prisons.
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Mr. Bullock, 32, has spent long stretches in isolation at six different prisons.
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Most of the over 110,21625 women in U.S. prisons are younger than 2900.
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Le Duan served not one but two torturous stints in these colonial prisons.
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The policies that kept prisons full were discriminatory, criminal justice reform experts said.
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While governor, he presided over the building of more than a dozen prisons.
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Aramark continues to provide some 380 million meals in 500 prisons across the
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Our loved ones have been languishing in Iranian prisons for nearly four years.
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Eventually, the companies could also build prisons and detention centers, Mr. Kodesch said.
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Since my story, Vermont began offering the three medications in jails and prisons.
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I recently heard that California plans to ban private detention centers and prisons.
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"I don't see any benefit to eliminating sex segregation in prisons," she said.
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Prisons more forthrightly label such holding areas as what they are: solitary confinement.
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Mark Dow is the author of American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons (California).
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In recent years, 30 or more prisoners have escaped from Ghana's prisons annually.
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"People in immigration camps get treated worse than people in prisons," he said.
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LGP organized locals to send emails and letters to the Board of Prisons.
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They will work together in schools, universities, parishes, retreat centers, hospitals and prisons.
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But the vast majority of Brazil's prisons are administered at the state level.
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We're underrepresented in Congress, board rooms and universities while being overrepresented in prisons.
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His death was confirmed by a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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My boys are in different prisons, each about two hours away from home.
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Philadelphia's pension board voted last year to divest its holdings in private prisons.
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That's not to say that Norway's prisons are a great place to be.
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Why do you think these labor prisons were located in places like Norilsk?
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There is no need for prisons as most punishment is corporal and public.
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The state has six federal prisons whose correctional officers are working without pay.
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The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the specifics of Watt's incarceration.
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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request for comment.
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Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America's jails and prisons.
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In recent weeks, there have been major riots in prisons across the country.
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Unfortunately, access to effective addiction medication is extremely rare in jails and prisons.
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The treadmill was introduced into colonial prisons post-slavery as a moral punishment.
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The Department of Justice announced recently that it will stop using private prisons.
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Yet starting in the 1980s, its use in prisons and jails exploded again.
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Within 15 years, federal and state supermax prisons had opened in 44 states.
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LGBTQ people, especially transgender women, face particularly horrifying conditions in jails and prisons.
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Previously, Guzmán was held in Mexico's prisons but escaped in 2001 and 2015.
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That's largely because most inmates — about 87 percent — are held in state prisons.
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And he's accepted thousands of dollars from private prisons and the Koch brothers.
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But the changes promised in the policy aren't being implemented in several prisons.
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Related: This Report on Brazil's Prisons Exposes a 'Human Rights Disaster' Shortly after taking office in 2011, Venezuela's minister of prisons, Iris Varela, met with several pranes in an effort to persuade them to reduce the levels of violence behind bars.
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According to Meng, detainees housed in facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisons can access some treatment, but the vast majority of people being held on immigration charges end up in private prisons that do not provide drug treatment programs.
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Since 2002, JPay has been quietly moving into prisons across the country, first by providing quicker (though pricier) ways for family members to send money to loved ones behind bars and, since 2004, by providing limited email systems in prisons.
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In response to this expanding criminal justice system, private business interests saw an opportunity for expansion, and consequently, private-sector involvement in prisons moved from the simple contracting of services to contracting for the complete management and operation of entire prisons.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When news spread earlier this year that New York would implement an expanded ban on books available to inmates in state prisons, the story seemed a fresh blow to the state of American prisons.
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In its report, the inspector general's office compared private prisons occupied by demographically homogeneous, often gang-affiliated inmates destined to be deported immediately after completion of their sentences to public prisons containing demographically mixed populations of Americans less involved in gangs.
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It's not known exactly how many inmates have taken their own lives over the years at MCC, but federal Bureau of Prisons figures show at least 124 killed themselves in the agency's prisons and jails between fiscal years 2010 and 2016.
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In April, the authorities also transferred 300 jailed gang leaders to maximum security prisons where the government said they would be held in isolation, a bold tactic in a country where large chunks of the prisons are controlled by gangs.
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