prisons
Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
Global Tel Link Corporation says the system would allow an inmate to "for a brief time, imagine himself outside or away from the controlled environment."
Dozens Die in Horrific Fire in Overcrowded Prison
It broke out while inmates in the Indonesian jail were sleeping.
A Company That Designs Jails is Spying On Activists Who Oppose Them
Documents show HDR, Inc. has monitored groups that oppose its controversial plans to build jails and highways.
Faulty Drug Tests Are Finding K2 in Prisoners’ Mail, Lawsuit Alleges
As a result, prisoners are allegedly being given solitary confinement, losing visitation privileges, or facing other punishments.
Biden Finally Released One of Guantánamo's ‘Forever Prisoners’
Abdul Latif Nasser has been held in the U.S. military prison since 2002, though he was never charged with a crime and never received a trial.
Guantánamo Detainees Say Conditions Are Worse Since Biden Became President
“Life here is like a nightmare.”
Contractor Exposed the Movements of People Wearing Ankle GPS Bracelets
A company that sells GPS ankle bracelets and helps Chicago law enforcement run a program to monitor people under house arrest leaked “an enormous amount of private information.”
Massachusetts is Testing Anti-Suicide Bracelets on Incarcerated People
The state's prison system will become the first to evaluate the Fitbit-like devices, which use algorithms to track prisoners' vitals.
A Corrections Officer Allegedly Did Nothing for 15 Minutes as an Inmate Hung Himself
Ryan Wilson hanged himself with a bedsheet tied to a light fixture in New York City's Manhattan Detention Complex, known as The Tombs.
Plastic Sheets, Pencil Crayons, Cheese Strings: Inside One Canadian Prison’s Chaotic Effort to Stop a COVID-19 Outbreak
Internal emails show that even in the middle of the pandemic, officials from Correctional Service Canada were scrambling to figure out how to handle the spread of COVID-19.
'We're Not in This Together' – How the UK Failed Working Class People During COVID
Let's face it: It's a privilege if you're able to work from home.
Justin Trudeau Says Solitary Confinement Is ‘Unacceptable’ Following Report Saying His Government Uses Solitary Confinement
When asked by VICE World News whether he would demand resignations after a damning report on Canadian prisons, the prime minister says his team is ‘following up.'