An innovative program in Scotland, inspired by Australia's Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids, is helping incarcerated fathers improve their parenting skills and strengthen family bonds through active play sessions with their children, potentially reducing reoffending rates. #Parenting #PrisonReform #FamilyBonding
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An innovative scheme in Scotland is helping dads in prison become better parents. Myra Anubi visits Barlinnie jail in Glasgow to meet the prisoners taking part.
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Texas jails aren't meeting deadlines to free inmates, costing some counties thousands in settlements
Jessica Jackson was supposed to be released from Dallas County jail in time for the holidays last year. She was arrested in early December for misdemeanor drug possession and violating parole, but was credited time for two years she'd already served on a previous aggravated robbery sentence.
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A Philly-area prison is redefining how America treats prisoners
The program paves the way for other states to adopt rehabilitation-focused models of incarceration.
State of play: Several states have implemented reforms focused less on punishment, adding programs that have improved prison conditions, eased tensions between guards and prisoners and equipped incarcerated people with life skills.
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American basketball player Jarred Shaw hoping for 'miracle' in...
Jarred Shaw, a 35-year-old American basketball player who used to star for Oklahoma State and Utah State, remains locked up in an Indonesian prison, and his health is deteriorating as he tries desperately to return home to the States.
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Idaho lawmakers move to close gap in prison sex abuse law
Spurred by InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse by Idaho women's prison staff, lawmakers are advancing legislation meant to close a gap in state law that makes it difficult to hold correctional officers accountable.
#PrisonReform #CivilRights #Accountability
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Ben Crump demands answers after 21-year-old Je'vion Benham found dead in Georgia prison cell for 2 days
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump stood alongside attorney Liza Park and a grieving mother Thursday to demand accountability in the death of 21-year-old Je'vion Benham inside a Georgia state prison.
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Judge orders takeover of health care operations in Arizona prisons after years of poor care
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered a take-over of health care operations in Arizona's prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and mental health care.
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Hawaii corrections officials seeking millions in funding to improve mental health services in prison
Confirmed or suspected suicides accounted for more than half of all deaths in the state's largest prison in the past two years, and amounted to one-third of all deaths in the statewide Hawaiʻi correctional system during 2024 and 2025, according to data compiled by Honolulu Civil Beat.
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Moving Former Death Row Inmates to 'Supermax' Prison
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation's highest security federal prison.
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Family sues over viral video showing California inmate getting...
The family of a Merced inmate fatally stabbed nearly 180 times at a state prison is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for "deliberate indifference" after horrifying video of the killing went viral.
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7 inmates died in Maryland state prisons in 2 months. Why?
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Maryland correctional authorities have recorded seven inmate deaths over the past two months, a pattern that criminal justice experts say points to deeper challenges inside the state's prisons.
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Arkansas moves to ban books in prisons as a drug-fighting measure
A cell block at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections. (Danny Johnston/AP)
The Arkansas Department of Corrections is set to ban all physical books, magazines and newspapers sent directly to inmates -- a restriction, pushed as a drug-fighting measure, that would be strictest of its kind in prisons across the country.
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Massachusetts Prison Turns Into a 'Haven for Sexual Predators' Thanks to Trans Activism
Under the guise of transgender inclusivity, many men claiming to be women have been allowed to stay in Massachusetts prisons meant for females -- and a deluge of sexual abuse allegations have followed as a result.
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N.J. prisons battling worst staffing crisis in decades. Guards say they're in constant danger.
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This story contains descriptions of self-harm.
The New Jersey Department of Corrections tracks violence against its own staff the way other agencies track potholes or snow days: with annual targets.
#TransRights #HumanRights #PrisonReform
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ECHR means trans prisoners can't be banned from women's jails, claims SNP
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Banning trans prisoners from female jails would breach the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), SNP ministers have argued.
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Father-daughter dance inside notorious prison changes lives of incarcerated men: "She's my world"
Inside a notorious prison, a program is focusing on fatherhood and changing how prisoners see themselves.
Angola - the Louisiana state penitentiary, which is the largest maximum security prison in the U.
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Mayor de Blasio Wants to Shut Down Notorious Rikers Island Jail Complex
A commission headed by the state's former chief judge has been considering options for Rikers
The mayor said Friday that he wants to close the city's troubled Rikers Island jail complex, though he cautioned that doing so would be difficult and take at least a decade.
