At the start of March 1951 the inhabitants of Camp 10 were informed that groups of prisoners were to be released across the front line to carry peace pamphlets and spread the word to their fellow dupes. Everyone was placed aboard southbound trains destined for Anju and morale soared. It event...
‘The march is only supposed to last a few more days’, Massey, who was now ill, wrote in his secret diary on 23 February, adding: ‘Hope I make it.’ Despite the fact that he would be trudging on for another thirteen days, he did indeed survive; but many did not, the overall d...
YANGON, Myanmar--Myanmar’s junta on Saturday released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the traditional new year holiday, including at least three political detainees, and the military leader behind the February coup confirmed he would attend a regional summit later this month. It wasn’t imm...
Blair has asked the Correctional Services commissioner and the chair of the Parole Board to look at the early release of certain offenders. Article content In a press conference on Monday, he said “literally hundreds” of prisoners who do not pose a “significant” threat t...
However, the numbers released on compassionate grounds are extremely low; between 2009 and 2013, only 45 prisoners in England and Wales were granted early release on compassionate grounds (Prison Reform Trust, 2014). The lack of compassionate release together with longer sentences means that ...
- Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, the second of four groups to be released as part of an agreement that started the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which had broken down since 2008. In all, 104 prisoners are to be released
She was released in 2016 after serving two years in the Lucille Plane State Jail for drug possession. “Some days, we wouldn’t have water,” Luna recounted. “I saw a lot of women have seizures because of the heat. It is inhumane. We were like feral animals ...
(WSJ) The U.S. government is phasing out the penny, whose use has spanned more than two centuries. It will stop putting new pennies into circulation by early next year. When there aren’t enough to use in everyday cash transactions, businesses will need to round prices up or down to ...
The bad news is there is no way to prevent infected inmates from leaving their rooms. The state has to date released nearly 300 inmates with active infections. Inmates are tested within seven days of their scheduled release, and those who test positive are barred from leaving early, sai...