Tags: Prisons
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Pussy Riot Member Banned From Her Own Parole Hearing, Begins Hunger Strike
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Obama Planning New Push to Close Guantanamo Bay
Skepticism over his ability to convince Congress
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Gitmo Hunger-Striker Starts Twitter Campaign to Close Prison
Has been in detention for 11 years
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Tsarnaev’s Lawyer Loses Bid to Photograph Dzhokhar in Jail
Prison officials will take the pics instead
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Dennis Rodman Returning to North Korea
Trying to get jailed American freed, he says
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Sentence Reductions Begin in Calif. Due to Three-Strikes Law Reform
Prisoners given life sentences for minor third crimes slowly being freed
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Afghan President Karzai Calls for Gitmo's Closure
Wants prisoners from his country released
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Report Calls for 'Compassionate Release' of More Federal Prisoners
Federal prisons don't offer parole, but sentences can be reduced in certain circumstances
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Guards Get Lie-Detector Tests at Scandal-Plagued Baltimore Jail
Union fears "witch hunt" meaning, "they might be caught"
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100 Gitmo Prisoners Now on Hunger Strike
Lawyers say the number is actually higher
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Member of Pussy Riot Denied Parole in Russia
Not appropriately penitent for the authorities
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Gang Runs Baltimore City Jail, Says FBI
A bit Third World-y
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German Police Arrest Man Suspected of Being Auschwitz Guard
Is 93 years old now
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Four Female Prison Guards Impregnated by Same Inmate
Among 25 people facing federal charges
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Overcrowding Blamed for Escape of French Gangster
Redoine Faid escaped on Saturday
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Inmates Clash With Guards at Guantanamo Bay
Violence sparked by the end of communal housing in one of the camps
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Lawyers Fear Guantanamo Hunger Strike May Turn Deadly
Dramatic weight loss reported
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Lindh Lawyer Wants Contempt Ruling over Prison Prayer Guidelines
Muslim inmates not being allowed to pray together, defying judge's verdict
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Imprisoned Environmental Activist Forbidden From Publishing Without Permission From Government
Daniel MacGowan, charged with terrorism and now in a halfway home, has written about being placed in experimental solitary confinement
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New Orleans Mayor Places Parish Prison in Federal Receivership, Sheriff Complains
Sheriff calls the move a "political attack"