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Waupun weighs a future without 167-year-old prison
The U.S. prison population suffered higher rates of infection, higher than most other institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and for those living at Waupun Correctional Institute (WCI), the state’s oldest continuously operating prison, and for those who care for them, the pandemic further
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Jail Nurse Says She 'Witnessed A Murder' When A Black Man Was Left To Die In His Own Waste In His Cell - Blavity
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Africa: IFJ's 30th Annual Report On Killings of Journalists and Media Staff Puts Death Toll At 65 in 2020
[IFJ] That is 17 more killed than were in 2019 (49), and bring the total to 2680 journalists and media workers who lost their lives to violence in the world since 1990, when the IFJ started publishing these annual reports to highlight the deepening safety crisis in the media.
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Namibia: Jailed Ex-MP's Bid for Release Fails
[Namibian] Former National Assembly member Geoffrey Mwilima's attempt to get a High Court order that would pave the way for his release from prison on medical grounds has failed.
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Zimbabwe: Lawyers Denied Prison Access to Sikhala, Mahere, Chin'ono
[New Zimbabwe] Lawyers representing incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, senior MDC Alliance officials, Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala, were at the weekend denied access, by prison officials, to their clients detained at the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
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Jay-Z, Yo Gotti, and Team ROC Petition Courts to Force Mississippi's Parchman Prison to Follow COVID-19 Guidelines
Team ROC filed court documents on behalf of Jay-Z and Yo Gotti highlighting the inhumane conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary's Parchman Farm.
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Guilty until proven innocent - Incarcerated mentally ill persons given a raw deal, says psychiatrist
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Appleseed Law Center’s Report Outlines Serious Need For Sentencing Reform
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Beth Shelburne on How A Heart Attack and ‘Mugshot Parades’ Changed Her Life
By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times As a television news anchor and journalist for WBRC-TV Fox 6 News in Birmingham for nearly a decade, Beth Shelburne was welcomed across the metro viewing area with open arms. Since retiring and because of her advocacy, however, there’s one place she’s not
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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in federal prison - TheGrio
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison, weeks... View Article The post Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in federal prison appeared first on TheGrio.
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I Was One Of Many Black Girls Disproportionately Funneled Into The Youth Justice System — An Open Letter To President Biden And VP Harris - Blavity
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Shock and disbelief! - US Jamaicans react to latest cop killings
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MADNESS! - Mentally ill man languishing without trial 16 years for smashing windscreen
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