Andrew Blake, Globe Staff
They serve their neighbors by collecting trash and doing other work. As they do so, they are giving back to a community that receives few public services. The service project was the idea of a group of prisoners, including Festus Indimuli. At the time, he was serving a six year jail ...
"I think that was in the Labour 2015 manifesto, so I think the government's got decisions to make about how to do this, but to me the issue is nobody should be pushed into poverty if they're doing the right thing. "Nobody who's working hard or nobody who's served t...
“Letter writing cuts into the isolation and brings people closer together through the physical and figurative walls that the prison-industrial complex builds, and in doing so, it helps keep people safer. Imprisoned people who receive no mail or contact from anyone are at risk of being recognized...
It is vital to call them prisoners rather than detainees, because doing so highlights the anomaly of immigrant prisoners being treated like prisoners without having the rights of prisoners. The only solution—which immigrant rights supporters interested in seeing an end to imprisonment should consider...
Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole in the killing of a sheriff's deputy. Matt, 48, was doing 25 years to life for the kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss. Prison worker Mitchellhas been charged with helping in the escape effortby providing them...
On another occasion when her blood sugar was down to 2.4mmol, an officer said: “We can’t be doing this every night Wilson.” On yet another occasion, about half an hour before dinner was due to be served, her blood sugar dropped to 3.4mmol. She pressed the buzzer twice and was ign...
During the pandemic, in an unheard-of experiment, incarcerated women in Arizona were moved to a prison camp on a multimillion-dollar private farm, where hazardous, meagerly paid work changed their lives forever.
(see e.g. , Smith1919; Carlin and Howard1965; Abel-Smith et al.1973; Eskeland and Finnes1973; Eidesen et al.1975; Sejr1977; Lid1981).Footnote1Within the rich Norwegian tradition of providing legal aid services and doing legal aid research critical voices have been raised. For example, ...
Project Officers will routinely discuss participant experience of the trial as the capsules are delivered. In doing so, participant indication of a desire to discontinue trial engagement will be discussed and where individual problems associated with participation are identified, the Project Officer wil...