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News in Brief
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former guard at the Mobile Metro Jail was scheduled to be arraigned on May 19, 2021, after being indicted for his role in an alleged scheme to smuggle cellphones into the Alabama lockup in exchange for bribes. According to a report by local TV …
Return from darkness, a road without a path. Lessons on humane and effective punishment from the Nordic Countries
Article • December 13, 2018
Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, International
Return from darkness, a road without a path. Lessons on humane and effective punishment from the Nordic Countries by Pablo Sartorio by Pablo Sartorio*  “As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and …
News in Brief
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Draper Correctional Facility guard Johntarance Henriquis McCray was sentenced on July 27, 2017 to 54 months in federal prison for bringing crack cocaine, powder cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, Xanax and Suboxone into the facility. A search of his vehicle had also uncovered a duffle bag …
Institute for Criminal Policy Research - World Prison Population List, 2018
Publication • January 1, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Institute for Criminal Policy Research - World Prison Population List, 2018 World Prison Population List twelfth edition Roy Walmsley Introduction This twelfth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the …
New Study Debunks Common Beliefs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
Article • September 6, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Collateral consequences of prison, Family, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners
New Study Debunks Common Beliefs of Children of Incarcerated Parents by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A study released by the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, and in conjunction with the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated, debunks commonly cited statistics concerning children with incarcerated …
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons
Article • August 29, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Excessive Force, Political Prisoners (International), Terrorism, CIA
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matthew Clarke Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matt Clarke The Central Intelligence Agency operated a network of prisons around the globe where suspected terrorists were routinely tortured, and in …
News in Brief
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: As previously reported in PLN, former Clay County jail administrator Jeffrey “Scott” Cotney filed a lawsuit alleging defamation, slander, libel and other claims related to accusations that he had used his position at the jail to sexually abuse prisoners. [See: PLN, March …
American Apartheid: Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Prison Tourism/Consumerism, Prisoners-International
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
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Prisoners-International
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; …
World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews, Prisoners-International
World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey by by Richard Terrill is a 472 page book examining the criminal justice systems of France, England, Sweden, Russia and Japan. In that respect the title is misleading as all five countries are industrialized bourgeois democracies that have more in common with each other …
Swedish Prisoners Mutiny
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, International, Prisoners-International
Swedish Prisoners Mutiny by On July 23, 1994, prisoners at the Tidaholm Prison, 200 miles Southwest of Stockholm, Sweden, refused to return to their cells at lock up time to protest the solitary confinement given to three prisoners after a fight earlier that day. Prison officials stated that some 115 …