Tag: Prisons
High court to hear Guantanamo prisoner’s state secrets case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether a Palestinian man captured in the wake of 9/11 and detained at the prison on the...
Prisons worker on leave after run-in with Wright protesters
STILLWATER, Minn. — A Minnesota Department of Corrections employee has been placed on investigative leave after a profane confrontation with protesters seeking more serious...
DOJ weighs in on suit filed by trans woman in Georgia prison
ATLANTA — Prison officials must keep transgender people reasonably safe from substantial risk of harm and provide them with adequate medical care, the U.S....
Ex-officer in ‘Fatal Vision’ murders appeals release denial
RALEIGH, N.C. — A former Army doctor serving life in prison for the “Fatal Vision” slayings of his wife and two young daughters in...
Russia’s feared prisons follow system from Soviet Gulag era
MOSCOW — Some Russian prisons might be mistaken for vacation destinations based on their nicknames, with animal appellations that include the Black Dolphin and...
Navalny’s doctors prevented from seeing him at prison clinic
MOSCOW — Several doctors were prevented Tuesday from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital after his three-week hunger strike and...
Fully vaccinated prisoners will be allowed to have visitors
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska will allow prison visitations for all inmates who have been fully vaccinated, the Alaska Department of Corrections said Monday.
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Underwriter withdraws from Alabama prison lease project
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The underwriter for a project to build two prisons in Alabama announced that it is pulling out following criticism that it...
Zimbabwe frees some inmates to reduce COVID-19 risk in jails
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe has begun releasing about 3,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty aimed at easing congestion to reduce the threat of COVID-19...
Washington state governor OKs bill banning for-profit jails
OLYMPIA, Wash. — One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday...
