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M2 PRESSWIRE-November 12, 2024-: Nicaragua: Alarming erosion of freedom and academic autonomy (C)1994-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:11112024 The UN's independent Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua has raised alarm over [...]

Byline: Vladimir Kara-Murza PRISON COLONY NO. 6, OMSK, RUSSIA -- Solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in Siberia is not particularly eventful. Among the few distractions (and welcome opportunities to [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Attorneys from Disability Rights Tennessee, Sanford Heisler Sharp, and the Youth Law Center filed a class action complaint today challenging illegal and [...]

Byline: Editorial Board Russia holds a three-day presidential election starting Friday, and the result is not in doubt: President Vladimir Putin has rigged the process to ensure he holds power [...]

OAKLAND, Calif., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MindSite News, the nation's only national news outlet reporting exclusively on mental health, is pleased to announce that two MindSite News reporters have [...]

The Roundtable Gathered to Highlight Second Chance Month LAS VEGAS, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Overcoming the longs odds of a life prison sentence, a year in solitary confinement, generational [...]

Byline: Mary Beth Sheridan MEXICO CITY -- Nicaragua's government released two jailed Roman Catholic bishops and 15 other priests who had been detained during one of the world's harshest crackdowns [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Peter Magubane, a South African photojournalist who documented apartheid's unrest and repression and was also caught in its grip, once jailed in solitary confinement for 586 days [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards By the time Josh McLemore was pulled from his jail cell in Brownstown, Ind., in August 2021, he had been locked in solitary confinement for 20 days, [...]

Byline: George F. Will Punishment that causes durable impairments of the punished person's brain surely violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment proscription of 'cruel and unusual punishments.' So, last week the [...]

Byline: Editorial Board Throughout his prison ordeal over the past 1,000 days, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has communicated with the outside world by passing messages through his lawyers, who [...]

Byline: Lucas Robinson Sep. 30In the depths of the restrictive housing units of Wisconsin prisons, the sound of inmates kicking and banging the walls echoes for hours on end. Amid [...]

Byline: Kathleen Parker Sept. 26 marks the 1,000th day that Hong Kong businessman, journalist and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has spent in solitary confinement for a series of bogus charges [...]

HATE preacher Abu Hamza has launched a fresh legal bid to be released from a maximum security prison in Colorado. The former imam of Finsbury Park Mosque says bouts of [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff Osman Khan was a 24-year-old Floridian visiting his girlfriend's family in Venezuela when he was detained at the country's border with Colombia in January 2022. Accused of [...]

Human rights organizations seek information on physical abuse, solitary confinement, inadequate medical care, and more within the New Orleans ICE Field Office NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3989560-1&h=3860520448&u=https%3A%2F%2Frfkhumanrights.org%2F&a=Robert+F.+Kennedy+Human+Rights(RFKHR), [...]

Byline: Anthony Ruggiero; Andrea Stricker Anthony Ruggiero is a senior fellow and senior director of the Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and served as [...]

Byline: Editorial Board The intense, unremitting maltreatment of political prisoner Alexei Navalny in Russia shows clearly that the Kremlin is trying to destroy him -- mentally and physically. A new [...]

Byline: Michael O'Sullivan; Olivia McCormack The film 'Navalny' just won the Oscar for best documentary feature, but its subject, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the leading opposition voice to President Vladimir [...]

Byline: Editorial Board The film 'Navalny,' awarded best documentary feature film at the Academy Awards on Sunday, is not being screened at maximum security penal colony No. 6 east of [...]

2023 SEP 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA -- As part of an innovative prison reform program, the Oregon [...]

Byline: Theresa Vargas For a long while, it seemed no one in power wanted to listen to Reginald 'Neli' Latson. Not when he was in handcuffs. Not when he was [...]

Byline: Ishani Desai Feb. 17Eighty-four people at two immigration detention facilities in Kern County launched a hunger strike Friday to demand their release and better living conditions, the latest action [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson AUSTRALIAN cardinal George Pell, who had child sex abuse charges against him overturned, has died in Rome. The 81-year-old was a divisive figure in the Catholic church. [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett; Frances Vinall Cardinal George Pell, a conservative theologian who served as the Vatican finance chief for Pope Francis and who was acquitted after becoming the most senior [...]

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Eileen O'Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, [...]

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Eileen O'Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, [...]

Byline: Matt Byrne Oct. 17A man who may be suffering from mental illness has spent more than two years in solitary confinement at the Cumberland County Jail and could soon [...]

Byline: Karlos Zurutuza NABARNIZ, Spain, Jan 19 (IPS) - It's 23 hours a day in a cell without natural light and just one to walk around in a 7x4-metre courtyard. [...]

Byline: Patricia Madej Jun. 9American democracy began in Philadelphia, and so did American incarceration. In 1790, the nation's first penitentiary opened on Walnut Street, introducing America's first solitary confinement cells [...]

Byline: Editorial Board In the darkness that political prisoners endure in Belarus, the 'punishment cell,' or solitary confinement, is particularly miserable. Those who have suffered it recall constant cold. They [...]

Byline: Editorial Board Imagine spending most of the day locked in a small windowless room. There is little to no natural light, no meaningful human interaction and nothing to break [...]

Byline: Ben Doherty and Christopher Knaus Sep 04, 2022 (The Guardian Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- US-based Management and Training Corporation has been announced by the Home Affairs Department [...]

Mar. 23The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing aticles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. In [...]

Byline: Callie Ferguson Mar. 8During a hearing last month, Maine's top corrections official told lawmakers that the state prisons do not use solitary confinement and have not subjected prisoners to [...]

Byline: Rosemary Lausier Mar. 8Today is Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the high 20s to high 30s from north to south, with mostly sunny skies throughout the state. Here's what [...]

Mar. 4EVERYONEINCARCERATED PEOPLE AND THEIR ADVOCATES, AS WELL AS THE OFFICIALS WHO RUN OUR PRISONS AND JAILS AGREES THAT SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARMFUL, And. counter to the common goals [...]

Byline: Callie Ferguson Feb. 11Maine's top prison official denied that the state's penitentiaries use solitary confinement, contradicting hours of emotional testimony from advocates and people affected by the practice and [...]

Byline: Callie Ferguson Feb. 8Maine earned a reputation as a national model for reducing its use of solitary confinement. Now, lawmakers will consider whether to end the controversial practice for [...]

Byline: Emily Hamer Jan. 14A mass testing effort at the Dane County Jail revealed a total of 81 inmates infected with COVID-19 close to the record case counts seen last [...]

Byline: Jeff McLane Jan. 1Only Lane Johnson knows the depths to which he has sunk during his mental health struggles, but especially when forced to leave the Eagles earlier this [...]