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Μια Trans Κρατούμενη Διηγείται τι Έμαθε στη Φυλακή για την Αγάπη και το Σεξ
«Δεν ήταν σπάνιες οι σχέσεις ανάμεσα σε μέλη του προσωπικού και κρατούμενους».
Γυναικεία Στήθη, Κρανία και Mickey Mouse: Αυτά Ζωγραφίζουν οι Κρατούμενοι στις Φυλακές του Μεξικού
Τα paños δείχνουν ότι ακόμη και οι πιο σκληροί εγκληματίες βρίσκουν τρόπο στις γιορτές για να στείλουν μία ευχετήρια "κάρτα" στην μητέρα τους.
Sexx Money's Open Letter to Miley Cyrus
Everyone's writing open letters to Miley Cyrus, even prison inmates like Sexx Money—he might get his pop culture news way later than everyone else, but he wants everyone to know how much he loves Miley.
Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Having "Copious Amounts of Anarchist Publications"
Illinois inmate Mark "Migs" Neiweem got put in a tiny cell with a white supremacist, all because he wrote stuff like, "Love + Peace + Equality = Anarchism."
My Life as a Convicted Gun Offender Who Did Nothing Wrong
I served four months in prison because police found legally owned unloaded guns in my car, and only went free thanks to an executive order from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. I'm still barred from seeing my son or living a normal life.
Corporations Are Cashing in on California's Prison Overcrowding Crisis
California is being forced by the courts to move inmates out of its overcrowded prison system, which is just another opportunity for the people who make money from incarceration to cash in.
Omar Khadr: War Criminal, Child Soldier... or Neither?
Toronto-born Omar Khadr was captured by Americans in Afghanistan in 2002 and was accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier. After eight years in Gitmo, he confessed. Now he's sitting in a federal prison in Edmonton.
Just Close Down California's Prisons Already
California has to reduce its prison population by 8,000 because some judges said so, but apparently it's really hard to let people out of overcrowded cages.
Starve Yourself Free
Inmates in California just ended their hunger strike against conditions in solitary confinement after two months, and the fact that they starved themselves for that long as a protest shows you how cruel and unusual prisons' shit has gotten.
Phone Calls from Jail Are Criminally Expensive
The FCC has finally put a cap on how much inmates can be charged for out-of-state calls, which is gonna provide some relief for prisoners and their families who were getting robbed blind by predatory companies like Global Tel Link.
Prison Pit
In a rancid, sweltering prison yard ringed by a high wall topped with barbed wire sat three cages. They stood about 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall—each crammed full of more than 30 human bodies.
So You Want to Abolish Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Small-Time Drug Dealers
It's a tall order, and probably high time. Attorney General Eric Holder sure thinks so, and plans to overhaul Justice Department policy to spare petty, non-violent drug offenders of lengthy mandatory minimum sentences. But a plan is just that: a plan...