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As a result, the U.S. is currently housing by far the world's largest and most permanent population of prisoners who are guaranteed to die behind bars. [44] The next closest country was Kenya, with only about 3,700 prisoners serving life without parole as of 2016. [44]
Individuals have died in prison rather than admit to crimes that they did not commit, including in the face of a plausible chance at release. United States law professor Daniel Medwed says convicts who go before a parole board maintaining their innocence are caught in a catch-22 that he calls "the innocent prisoner’s dilemma". [ 1 ]
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", [3] is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres (6.30 km 2). Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift facilities, today the prison holds more than 750 male offenders, [1] the vast majority of which are maximum-security inmates. They ...
In 1988, the prison was ordered to move 130 female inmates to other state facilities in order to comply with a lawsuit filed claiming that women received unfair treatment at the prison. According to several inmates, the women at Westville were not allowed options such as work opportunities outside the facility, General Equivalency Diploma ...
Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Gaol (2014), a non-fiction work by James Phelps Long Bay (2015), a novel by Eleanor Limprecht telling the story of Rebecca Sinclair, who was sentenced to three years' Hard Labour for manslaughter after conducting an abortion, and was one of the gaol's first inmates in 1909.
ALLOUEZ – Before he ever stepped foot in Green Bay Correctional Institution, Dant'e Cottingham, then 17, had already heard rumors about the prison nicknamed "Gladiator School."
A US military veteran who admitted he faked being unable to walk for more than 20 years while claiming several hundred thousand dollars in disability benefits will be heading to prison.
But the problem runs far deeper than one jail gone rogue. In the course of reporting on a lawsuit against the Michigan prison system, I obtained a series of videos depicting the treatment of underage inmates in adult facilities, as well as hundreds of prison documents through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and other sources.