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  2. Patarei Prison - Wikipedia

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    Sentences were often shortened. 92 prisoners were released and their convictions were expunged. [5] Prison staff was replaced by persons loyal to the new regime. The Patarei Prison became the penal institution that all arrested public officials, high-ranking military officers, police officers and businessmen of the Republic of Estonia passed ...

  3. Soviet deportations from Estonia - Wikipedia

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    Soviet deportations from Estonia were a series of mass deportations in 1941 and 1945–1953 carried out by Joseph Stalin's government of the former USSR from then Soviet-occupied Estonia. [1] The two largest waves of deportations occurred in June 1941 and March 1949 simultaneously in all three occupied Baltic countries : Estonia, Latvia, and ...

  4. German occupation of Estonia during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The largest, Vaivara concentration camp housed 1,300 prisoners at a time. These prisoners were mainly Jews, with smaller groups of Russians, Dutch, and Estonians. [28] Several thousand foreign Jews were killed at the Kalevi-Liiva camp. [26] Four Estonians most responsible for the murders at Kalevi-Liiva were accused at war crimes trials in 1961 ...

  5. Prisons by country - Wikipedia

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    Estonia currently maintains five prisons around the country: Harku Prison, Murru Prison, Tallinn Prison, Tartu Prison and Viru Prison. [2] In March 2011, there were 3,405 persons incarcerated in Estonia, and the number of prisoners per 100,000 residents were 254, which is the third highest rate in the EU. These figures include pre-trial ...

  6. Viru Prison - Wikipedia

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    Viru Prison (Estonian: Viru Vangla) is a regional prison in Jõhvi, Estonia. Estonian Ministry of Justice started preparations for establishment of Viru Prison in 2001, and the prison was officially established on July 13, 2006. Viru Prison complex incorporates 1000 closed beds and a 75-bed open unit operated by the Estonian Department of ...

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Forging Connections. A one-time New York City hotelier who began renting out rooms to prisoners in 1989, Slattery has established a dominant perch in the juvenile corrections business through an astute cultivation of political connections and a crafty gaming of the private contracting system.

  8. Today in New York - Wikipedia

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    Today in New York (displayed on-air as "Today in NY") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on WNBC, an NBC owned-and-operated television station in New York City. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Eastern Time , immediately preceding NBC's Today .

  9. Three remain on federal death row after Biden commutations ...

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    See full list of names: President Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates Of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, only three were not given commutations on their sentences. Here ...