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– The number of Venezuelans left dead following weekend riots by well-armed inmates at one of the country’s notoriously overcrowded prisons, reports Reuters.
It’s Time To End Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
In April, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace marked a grim anniversary. The two Louisiana State Prison inmates, both in their 60s, had been held in solitary...
Can Food Be Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
If you’ve led a law-abiding life, chances are you have never encountered “nutriloaf,” a foul-tasting brick served to prisoners who get out of line. How...
Texas Prisons End Last-Meal Tradition on Death Row
Convicted murderer Lawrence Russell Brewer's lavish dinner order before his execution on Wednesday prompted Senator John Whitmire to call for an end to the...
As California Fights Prison Overcrowding, Some See a Golden Opportunity
The wooden floor of this dormitory at the state prison in Chino, Calif., is the only indication that inmates once played basketball here. Hoops long since taken...
Photo Essays
Stars Behind Bars: LIFE With the Prisonaires
For much of the 20th century and well into the 21st, much of popular music — rock and roll, R&B, hip hop — has banked on the appeal of the rebel, the outsider...
Lost Lives
Asia's mental health centers look more like prisons than hospitals. Photographer John Stanmeyer takes a closer-and disturbing-look at those suffering in silence...
Time.com Specials
Late-Night Laughs: The 5 Best Comedy Clips of the Week
This week in the world of late-night television, Colbert rounded up Yelp reviews of prisons and Conan reviewed Martha Stewart’s new online-dating profile.
Top 10 Privatization Plans
This land is your land — if you can afford it. From sea to shining sea, states are privatizing government assets from airports to prisons to toll roads to raise...
Articles from Around the Web
US- Style' Super- Prisons' in Britain
Britain should build modern'' hub prisons'' with a capacity of up to 3,000 inmates each, according to a new report. ...
FBI: Prison Food Provider Sent Drugs to Inmate
Federal agents say a Puerto Rican man working for a company that provides meals to prisons has been arrested for allegedly delivering narcotics to an inmate. ...
VIDEO: Prison inmates to be unshackled
The Thai government is starting to phase out shackles in prisons to improve its human rights practices. ...
VIDEO: Yoga poses in a Kenyan prison
The Africa Yoga Project is teaching yoga in slums, orphanages and prisons in Kenya. ...
