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Article • January 15, 2015
Australia Imprisons Aboriginals Disproportionately by Australia Imprisons Aborigines Disproportionately The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has called for the federal government to increase its “Closing the Gap” goals. Closing the Gap currently aims to reduce the disproportionate overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system by funding legal …
Guilty Brazilian Prison Guards Finally Convicted in 1992 Jail Massacre by Derek Gilna Guilty Brazilian Prison Guards Finally Convicted in 1992 Jail Massacre by Derek Gilna Justice was slow in coming for the families and friends of some of the 111 Brazilian prisoners at now-demolished Sao Paulo Carandiru prison who …
Article • October 3, 2014
13 Prisoners Die in Turkish Prison Fire by 13 Prisoners Die in Turkish Prison Fire   Thirteen prisoners died, five were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization and three guards suffered burns during a prison fire at the Suliufa prison near in southeast Turkey in June 2012. The prison is …
Article • June 23, 2014
Inside a Chinese Prison: An American’s Perspective by Foster, Stuart B. Inside a Chinese Prison: An American’s Perspective by Stuart B. Foster I grew up around jails and prisons in the Upstate of South Carolina. My grandfather was born in jail, with the punch line being his father was the …
Article • June 7, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk by Seventh Circuit: Jail Social Worker Ignored Detainee’s Suicide Risk On August 12, 2013, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jail social worker could be held liable for ignoring a detainee’s obvious risk of committing suicide. Algerian citizen …
European Court of Human Rights Ruling Rebukes U.S. Prison System by Derek Gilna European Court of Human Rights Ruling Rebukes U.S. Prison System by Derek Gilna A suspected terrorist diagnosed as mentally ill will not be extradited from Britain to the United States to face charges that he conspired to …
Publication • May 1, 2014
Prisoners of Injustice -- Palestinian PoW Report, NLG, 2014 PRISONERS OF INJUSTICE Report of the National Lawyers Guild Delegation to Palestine May 2014 Published November 2014 by the National Lawyers Guild. The National Lawyers Guild was formed in 1937 as the nation’s first racially integrated bar association to advocate for …
Second Circuit: Videoconference at Resentencing Violates Right to be Present by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held that resentencing a defendant by videoconference violated his right to be present in court, and the government failed to satisfy its burden of establishing that the defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived …
American Apartheid: Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior by Doran Larson “Open” prisons, in which detainees are allowed to live like regular citizens, should be a model for the U.S. by Doran Larson It’s a postcard-perfect day on Suomenlinna Island, in Helsinki’s South Harbor. Warm for the first week of June, …
Sweden’s Shrinking Prison Population by Christopher Zoukis Sweden’s prison population has seen such a sharp drop in recent years that the nation’s prison service announced in November 2013 that it had closed four correctional facilities and a remand center. Prisons in Aby, Haja, Batshagen and Kristianstad were closed in 2013; …
Mangaung and Beyond: Private Prison Exemplifies South Africa’s Criminal Justice Woes by James Kilgore In recent months a battle has erupted at Mangaung prison in South Africa. Mangaung, located near the city of Bloemfontein, is one of the country’s two privately-operated correctional facilities. Managed by British-based G4S, which bills itself …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
British Court Blocks Sex Offender’s Extradition to U.S. Due to “Draconian” Civil Commitment Policies by In June 2012, Britain’s High Court of Justice blocked the extradition of a defendant wanted in Minnesota for sex crimes, stating a “flagrant denial” of his human rights would result if he were subjected to …
D.C. Circuit Clears Terrorism Suspect after 11-Year Ordeal by Derek Gilna An October 16, 2012 decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ended the lengthy ordeal of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was originally captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Philippines Prison Suspends Thriller Dancers by On February 24, 2012, guards at a maximum-security facility in the Philippines were so spooked following an incident involving a prisoner with a homemade weapon that they temporarily suspended the prison’s dance troupe, which became internationally famous for its 2007 choreographed homage to Michael …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
China Vows to Finance Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China says it is taking steps to ensure that its prison system is publicly financed and that prisoners receive rehabilitative opportunities. Wu Aiying, China’s Minister of Justice, announced last year that profits …
From Tiger Cages to Control Units by Nancy Kurshan 1970 TRIP to VIETNAM As a 26 year old co-founder of the Yippies (the Youth International Party) I traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 as part of an all-women’s peace delegation. I believed that the Vietnamese people should have been able …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
D.C. District Court Reaffirms Access to Counsel for Guantanamo Detainees by Derek Gilna In a September 6, 2012 memorandum opinion, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia once again asserted an “obligation to assure that those seeking to challenge their Executive detention by petitioning for habeas relief have …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
500 Escape from Abu Ghraib and Taji Prisons in Iraq by Christopher Zoukis On July 21, 2013, military-style assaults at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and another prison in Taji resulted in the escape of more than 500 prisoners, including an unknown number of al-Qaida members. Many of the prisoners …
Suicides at CCA-run ICE Detention Center Spark Investigation by Derek Gilna Human rights organizations monitoring complaints regarding conditions of confinement for prisoners held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities were likely not surprised when they received news that two detainees had committed suicide at the Eloy Detention Center outside …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Italian Prison Program Trains Female Prisoners in Fashion Industry by Derek Gilna Leave it to the Italians to extend their love of fashion to a women's prison. At the Rebibbia facility in Rome, the well-known fashion house of Fendi is supporting a voluntary training program where women prisoners manufacture handbags. …
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