Published on Feb 2, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT Being put in the slammer in America can be a life-threatening proposition. The most recent data from the U.S Ministry of Justice shows more than
Convicted bank robbers made a daring escape from a high-rise federal jail
Published on Apr 23, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The Justice Department is encouraging nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal history and have already served more than 10 years behind b
Published on May 5, 2014 Scores of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are on their 11th day of an open ended hunger strike against arbitrary administrative detention and what they describe as unbearable conditions inside Israeli jails.
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Mar 22, 2015 Pontiff's latest luncheon with Naples inmates draws criticism.
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jun 25, 2015 Financial incentives have been found as the main motivation for private prisons to maximize the lengths of inmate stays, but the results are not saving states very much money or reduc
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jul 1, 2015 Twelve hundred prisoners are on the run in Yemen, after a jailbreak in the city of Taiz. Al-Qaeda sympathisers are said to have attacked the site, which is controlled by Houthi rebels.
Published on Feb 22, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM At Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, about a quarter of the underaged teenagers who are awaiting trial are in solitary confinement, spending 23 hours a day in a 6 by
Published on Apr 14, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM *Tennessee Senators overwhelming voted on Wednesday to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates in the event that the state is unable to procure the necessary chemica
The largest ever release of federal prison inmates is underway across the country. Thousands of non-violent drug offenders are walking free in a program to ease overcrowding. Justice correspondent, Jeff Pegues reports.
Published on Mar 18, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Brazilian jail cells are overflowing. The largest country in South America houses more than half-a-million prisoners, the fourth-highest in the world. Yet, it has room for only 300
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM A Wyoming lawmaker is pushing to allow use of the firing squad to execute condemned state inmates if constitutional problems or other issues ever prevented the state from using lethal injection. Sen. Bruc
Published on Aug 6, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Teen inmates at one of the country’s largest municipal jails are routinely subjected to excessive force resulting in injuries like broken jaws and bone fractures, according to a U.S.
Published on May 3, 2013 British lawmakers have voiced concern over transplant abuse in China. They attended a hearing on April 29 at the UK Parliament, organized by medical advocacy group, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting. [An
Published on Apr 5, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Lobbyists for the private prison company GEO Group convinced lawmakers to include almost $1 million extra in funding despite the fact that the Arizona Department of Corrections cla
PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM The private equity-backed prison phone call industry is making plans to fight an FCC vote last month that will slash long-distance rates for inmates. After a decade of delay, the FCC voted 2-1 in August to set maxi
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Apr 3, 2015 There are currently some 200 Palestinian children being held in Israeli jails in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Palestinian officials say 182 minors were estimated to have been b
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Protesters rallied in front of New York’s infamous Rikers Island prison to call for its shutdown, and to protest the rampant police brutality and abuse of inmates there. RT cameras were at the protest and spo
