Robben Island, where Mandela was held from 1963 to 1982, is now an essential stop for any visitor to Cape Town. You can inspect the prison blocks and listen as former inmates act as tour guides. (Book online before you leave home: in summer it gets very busy.) Certainly, th...
The inmates got better and better and the staff stabilized and began to enjoy their jobs. Eventually they closed the ward because all the patients were released! All of this came as a result of one man who was dedicated to learning how to forgive. ...
In January 2021, the Biden-Harris administration ordered the Department of Justice not to renew contracts for privately-operated criminal detention centers. In December 2022, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) ended all contracts with privately owned prisons and transferred federal inmates who had been inca...
Robben Island, where Mandela was held from 1963 to 1982, is now an essential stop for any visitor to Cape Town. You can inspect the prison blocks and listen as former inmates act as tour guides. (Book online before you leave home: in summer it gets ve...
Occasionally, some inmates would figure it out. After spending so much time behind bars, people Big L grew up with and went to high school were now getting locked up with him. “They’re like, ‘Yo, you Doe Doe’s dad?’ I was in pods with dudes like three and four years. Then,...
men who had keys to the cells had come and taken Walters from the jail. After a prominent black citizen, Samuel L. Jones, heard of this story and approached county judge Erskine H. Bramlette asking for his help to pursue an investigation, these inmates were all relocated to other jails....
s also a pretty bold move on the part of the Thai police, and it actually gives Thailand a significant amount of leverage over the BGF. At this moment, the reason you’re suddenly starting to see all these individuals released from the compounds relates very much to that...
Mostly Jews who had fled to England, the 2,300 internees were among the most passionate anti-Nazis, but they were treated as dangerous threats to Canadian security
Just a few days later, Wisconsin State Senator Julian Bradley introduced a bill compelling the state’s prison inmates to use all or some of their $1,400 COVID relief checks on victim restitution if applicable. “There are fundamental differences in decency between the two parties right...
any of the detainees, even those who have had their return to the community approved. In some cases, the detainee is recommended to be released from the camp but to continue working in the “industrial park,” potentially corroborating allegations that Uyghurs are made to perform forced labor....