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The article focuses on the high number of staff physicians being employed by state corrections system in the U.S. who have been censured by a state medical board for an error or a breach of ethics. Topics discussed include a federal lawsuit filed by inmate Darnell Price against doctor Joan Hannula, a requirement for doctors before working in a prison system, and a study on the quality of health care in state prisons conducted by Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau.

The article offers information on Aleksei A. Navalny's recent transfer to a remote Arctic prison, ending a 20-day mystery about his whereabouts.

The article reports a stabbing incident involving Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted of George Floyd's murder, inside an Arizona prison. This attack, similar to past assaults on high-profile inmates, underscores security concerns within the Federal Bureau of Prisons, prompting investigations into protective measures and staffing issues.

The article reports on the almost 50 percent increase in deaths in state and federal prisons across the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic, based on data on prison fatalities in the COVID-19 era. Increase in deaths in 2020 surpassed estimates of the percentage increase at nursing homes. Aside from Covid infections, inmates also were affected by other illnesses, suicide and violence, based on data from law school researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The article discusses the apparent unjust treatment of prisoners who go before the New York State Board of Parole. Topics covered include the similar criminal cases of burglars Billy Cassell who was set free, and Jaimie Davenport whose prison term was extended, and the telling difference that Cassell was white while Davenport was black. Also noted is the broken prison system that is reflected by the racial disparity in parole decisions.

The article reports on the high cost of operation at Guantánamo Bay where high-risk prisoners are detained. Topics discussed include the total cost of holding prisoners in 2018, cost per prisoner, number of military troops required to secure the detention center located on the southeast coast of Cuba, amenities for the prison's staff members, privileges for inmates and a U.S. Defense Department 2013 report on the annual cost of operating the prison and court system at Guantánamo Bay.

The article reports on gruesome details in a report on the Alabama prison system issued by the U.S. Justice Department on April 3, 2019. Topics discussed include findings of the report including the major prisons being at 182 percent of their capacity, the prevalence of contraband and prisoners sleeping in dorms in order to escape violence and the claim in the report of the state being deliberately indifferent to the risks prisoners face.

The article reports on the week-long blackout crisis at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York City that ended on February 3, 2019, and looks at the long history of neglect and brutality at the jail. Topics discussed include inmates trapped in cold, dark cells during the blackout, jail warden Herman E. Quay's denial of any problem outside a partial loss of power, and the public outcry against the widespread mistreatment of inmates in federal jails.

The article focuses on the case of Carlos Ghosn, a multimillionaire executive who is being held in a Japanese prison while being investigated for a possible financial wrong-doing related to his nearly 20-year career at automobile maker Nissan. It notes that Ghosn is being treated much like any suspect in Japan. The difference between the Japanese justice system and other countries is discussed.

The article reports on the infrastructure problems faced by high-value Qaeda prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The article reports that the number of New York City prisoners being transferred to other New York state jurisdictions has risen since the implementation of the solitary confinement ban covering prisoners 21 years old and younger incarcerated in New York City correctional facilities. Topics discussed include the City allegedly using the prison transfer to get around the solitary confinement ban, the types of prisoners who are most likely to be transferred and the provisions of the solitary ban.

The article reports on the State of the Union speech of U.S. President Donald Trump that calls for prison system reform in the U.S. Topics discussed include the incarceration rate in the country, the increase of jail population, and the issue of housing for prisoners who had just released. Information on the country's parole system is provided.

The article announces that a group of U.S. police chiefs, prosecutors, and sheriffs has been formed to advocate for a reduction in the country's incarceration rate. Members of the group, called Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama to promote alternatives to arrests, a reduction in the number of criminal laws, and the abolition of mandatory minimum prison sentences. The economic aspects of mass incarceration are also discussed.

The article discusses the use of hallucigenic tea to Brazilian inmates. It states that the act of giving the inmates with the hallucinogenic tea or ayahuasca is part of a program to ease the pressure on the prison system of the country while rehabilitating them. Psychologist Euza Beloti highlights the need to consider the capabilities of the inmates to change instead of condemning them.

The article discusses the policies set for probation violators in North Carolina to help curb relapses to crime. The quick dip policy enables the state to decrease the costly increase of prisoners. Aside from the quick dips and a decline in probation revocations, the state uses a 90-day jail stays for probationers with more serious crimes. Some of the savings from the shrinking prison system are used to hire probation and parole officers to cut caseloads.

The article reports on the challenges confronting California Governor Jerry Brown relating to the future of the prison system in the state in July 2013, with widespread hunger strike and court orders. It states that inmate hunger strike is growing in the state as a protest of the solitary confinement policy of the state. It mentions that the federal courts ordered the release of nearly 10,000 inmates and transfer of 2,600 other prisoners who are at risk of contracting deadly illness in prisons.

The article reports that according to the Interfax news agency, prison system of Russia has issued an edict, according to which some prisoners will be forbidden to swear and detainees will be banned from addressing their guards foulmouthed slang of the Russian prison system, known as "fenya."

The author reflects on the developments of jails in New Orleans, Louisiana since the Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and how the city was able to maintain a single jail with just more than 1,400 beds.

The article discusses problems associated with state penal systems in the U.S. that ship inmates out of state because of overcrowded prisons. Most prisoners are shipped to facilities run by private companies. Critics of private prisons feel that such institutions lack oversight, create undue hardships on inmates sent far from their home, and hamper efforts at rehabilitation.

The author reflects on the prison system in Texas, wherein it settled a bid to substitute its aging swine-production facilities with six new climate-controlled modular barns worth $750,000.

The comic strip "Johnny Privilege" is presented.

The article reports that Governor Jerry Brown of California has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should renounce control over the prison system because the state has complied with its demands to provide more changes in the sentencing laws in the area.

When a government needs to invest in an expensive capital project -- a new sewer system, bridge or highway -- it issues bonds. Bonds raise upfront money from private sector investors, who are then paid back with interest from the tolls or charges the project generates. Until now, no one ever issued a bond to invest in people like Popeye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in 1989 by the state of Texas, was almost certainly wrongly convicted of stabbing a young woman to death with a knife in a gas station robbery in Corpus Christi. Carlos Hernandez, who died in a Texas prison while serving time for stabbing someone else, , almost certainly killed the young woman and repeatedly told others that he had committed the murder. This case is the subject of an extraordinary project at Columbia Law School, which this week released a book-length account -- called ''Los Tocayos Carlos,'' or the namesake Carlos -- detailing the errors in the investigation and prosecution of Mr. DeLuna from the moment of his arrest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For many decades, the civilized world has recognized prolonged isolation of prisoners in cruel conditions to be inhumane, even torture. The Geneva Conventions forbid it. Even at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, where prisoners were sexually humiliated and physically abused systematically and with official sanction, the jailers had to get permission of their commanding general to keep someone in isolation for more than 30 days. So Americans should be disgusted and outraged that prolonged solitary confinement, sometimes for months or even years, has become a routine form of prison management. It is inflicting unnecessary, indecent and inhumane suffering on tens of thousands of prisoners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joaquin E. DiazDeLeon, a former Fresno gang member, spent two years inside California's juvenile prison system. What he found there, he said, was no better than the streets he came from. Instead of rehabilitating young offenders, he said, correctional officers spent most of their time separating rival gangs. Violence was so pervasive, he said, that he kept his gang affiliation just to protect himself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The New York State prison system has greatly improved mental health services since 2007 when it settled a lawsuit that had accused it of mistreating mentally ill inmates. A troubling increase in prison suicides suggests that all of the problems have not been solved. State records show that there were 20 suicides in 2010, double the number in 2009 and the highest since 1978, the first year for which records were released. The figures inched higher in the 1980s, then even higher in the '90s. The decade that just ended was the worst on record, with more than 125 inmates taking their own lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A key provision of a New York State law under which repeat offenders can be sentenced more harshly is unconstitutional because the longer prison terms are based on findings by judges, not juries, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Although the ruling did not directly strike down the provision, it indicated that the state law was flawed. Some prosecutors said new legislation could be required to preserve the politically popular principle that repeat offenders should be subject to longer sentences. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Thai citizen was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for insulting the king and his family by posting edited photos of the monarchy on the Internet, Bangkok Criminal Court said. The poster, Suwicha Thakho admitted altering photos of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his family, the court said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday. Relying on expert testimony, the court ruled that the California prison system, the nation's largest with more than 150,000 inmates, could reduce its population by shortening sentences, diverting nonviolent felons to county programs, giving inmates good behavior credits toward early release, and reforming parole, which they said would have no adverse impact on public safety. The panel said that without such a plan, conditions would continue to deteriorate and inmates might regularly die of suicide or lack of proper care. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Brooklyn man who was being questioned in his apartment by police detectives about a forged check was fatally shot on Saturday morning by one of the detectives after he threatened them with a knife, the police said. The man, Darryl Battle, 20, was suspected of trying to cash a forged check for $1,003.50 last month at a Chase bank branch on East 79th Street in Manhattan and left his identification behind, according to the police. Based on a complaint from the bank, the two detectives went to 650 Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 9 a.m. to talk to Mr. Battle, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Manhattan Criminal Court building has featured a long parade of marquee malefactors, like Robert E. Chambers Jr. or Remy Ma, whose misdeeds have been exhaustively reported by the city's newspapers and radio and television stations. But relatively little attention is paid to the supporting cast, who number in the tens of thousands. So for the last few months Steven Hirsch, a freelance newspaper photographer, has been photographing and interviewing some of the unheralded defendants who pass through the court system and posting the results on a Web page, http://courthouseconfessions.blogspot.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Violence and heartbreak have long shaped the music that makes this city synonymous with the blues. But when the police were alerted to the slaying of Dee Henderson, a disc jockey whose soft voice piloted ''Cap'n Pete's Blues Cruise'' on the city's volunteer radio station, WEVL, for 26 years, the death seemed more like the lyrics of the Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters songs he so loved than his friends and fans could stand. The silencing of Mr. Henderson, 72, a man whose gentle demeanor was far removed from the raucous Beale Street nightclubs where legions of blues players got their breaks, came during an especially violent period for the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that a 15 year old girl was sexually abused by her male inmates at Abaetetuba, a police jail in Brazil. It is stated that the girl was arrested on charges of theft. According to federal investigators, the inmates at the prison raped and tortured her for 26 days. The case has raised concerns among the federal officials over the treatment of women and children in the nation's crowded prison system.

The article presents information on various issues related to prison legislation in the U.S. The prison legislation came in to force after conservation between the Republican and Democratic leaders. Lawmakers in California approved a construction program that would add 53,000 beds and move 8,000 convicts to other states. It is stated that the present prison system has several deadliness set by State and federal judges to reduce overcrowding in prisons.

The article presents information related to the prison system of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, has declared a state of emergency in the prison system, a step reserved for areas hit by natural disasters. The problems of the prison system include overcrowding, inmate violence, recidivism, parole absconders and the prison medical system.

The article presents information on a report that revealed that the Russian police torture suspects in jail. The report covered 114 cases where suspects were forced to sign confessions by beating them. Thirty cases of torture were reported at one ward at a jail in Yekaterinburg. Poor training, low wages, weak courts, and a system of promotions are being cited as the reasons behind the prevalence of torture in jails.