Louisiana inmates renew push for heat protections at Angola prison, call conditions ‘modern-day slavery’
Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...
A Showcase for Formerly Incarcerated Artists Grows in Brooklyn
The nonprofit Center for Art and Advocacy, designed as a steppingstone to the art world, opens a public exhibition and ...
Frame-up victim and artist Gary Tyler speaks at the University of Michigan
Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His ...
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Georgia ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili’s prison terms now total over 12 years after latest verdict
A court in Georgia on Monday handed another prison sentence to former President Mikheil Saakashvili, extending his total ...
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Angola’s Political and Economic Development
Angola, Africa’s top oil producer, is flush with money. Yet wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very few, leaving the bulk of the population in poverty. In April 2008, Angola quietly ...
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Kentucky Museum
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'The system lets it happen' | Warnings ignored? Repeat juvenile offender now faces steep adult consequences
Two months ago, in a rare move for an inmate not serving a state sentence, Tassin was sent to the state’s maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary. The transfer, classified as an ...
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New Guy Pearce prison film Inside takes inspiration straight from the director's life in Melbourne
The result is a tightly packed, thought-provoking crime thriller featuring characters less concerned with busting out of prison than they are with breaking free of themselves. In Inside ...
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Lethal injection, firing squad and nitrogen gas. A look at US execution methods
Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5 ... a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, ...
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Federal prison officer ‘alarmed’ about ‘inhumane’ handling of migrants; 2 U.S. senators want hearing
Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, raised concerns about the treatment of the detainees, citing a letter from an unnamed prison employee who described conditions at the federal lockup in Los Angeles ...
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AP PHOTOS: A lens on prison labor
This 1973 photo show prison guards shaking down a prisoner at the Arkansas ... call in a yard behind fencing and razor wire at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. (Chandra McCormick via AP ...
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Angola Plans Return to Eurobond Market With $1.5 Billion Offer
Angola is considering raising about $1.5 billion in its first eurobond sale in three years to refinance or repay outstanding debt and fund the country’s budget, Finance Minister Vera Daves de ...