Jailed Chinese activist faces another birthday in a cell, wife says
By Elsie Chen | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Ding Jiaxi knew he would spend his 57th birthday alone in a Chinese prison cell, without a phone call from family or …
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19 inmates flee from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir prison, 1 dead
19 inmates, including six on death row, escaped from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s Rawalkot prison. One of the convicts, however, got injured during the escape and later died at a local hospital.The …
Closure of women’s prison was poorly planned, judge says
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The plan to close a troubled prison in California where female inmates suffered sexual abuse by guards was “ill-conceived,” a judge …
S.F. sheriff’s deputies call for National Guard in jail staffing crisis
By Bay City News The union representing San Francisco’s deputy sheriffs demanded assistance Saturday from the California National Guard to solve a critical staffing shortage in the county’s jails. The …
California jails are holding thousands fewer people, but far more are dying in them
People are dying in custody at record rates across California. They’re dying in big jails and small jails, in red counties and blue counties, in rural holding cells and downtown …
California is clearing criminal records — including violent crimes — to offer second chances
BY JEANNE KUANG | CalMatters It has been 13 years since Nick C. sat in an Alameda County jail at the age of 24, facing decades in prison and the …
Hundreds of inmates flee after armed gangs storm Haiti’s main prison
By Evens Sanon and Pierre-Richard Luxama | Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility in an overnight explosion of …
Bay Area doctor claims no evidence of harm from ‘racist’ pesticide-injections of inmates
A Bay Area dermatologist and university professor accused last year of using state prisoners in decades-old experiments that included pesticide injections has denied in a legal filing that his accusers …
Arkansas Doctor Settles Lawsuit Over Prescribing Ivermectin To People In Jail
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags An Arkansas jail doctor has reached a settlement in federal court with former inmates who alleged they were given ivermectin, the anti-parasitic and …
Here’s what happened on Day 1 of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ trial – National
Crown prosecutor Tim Radcliffe says that “Freedom Convoy” organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber’s political views are not on trial, but rather the means they allegedly employed to achieve their …