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“#NY inmates offered food, conjugal visits, more to get COVID vaccine” It’s Hot Vax Summer — for jailbirds. State prison officials are so desperate to get inmates vaccinated against COVID-19 that they’re dangling care packages, barbecue parties and even conjugal visits, according to a memo issued this week to the nearly 34,000 jailbirds. A mere…
“#As COVID recedes in prisons, will any lessons learned stick?” Derrick Johnson had a makeshift mask. He had the spray bottle of bleach and extra soap that corrections officers provided. But he still spent every day crammed in a unit with 63 other men in a Florida prison, crowding into hallways on their way to…
“#Salvadoran woman freed from jail after 30-year abortion sentence” A Salvadoran woman who had served nearly a third of her 30-year prison sentence on charges of terminating her pregnancy and violating El Salvador’s harsh abortion ban was released on Monday, activists said. Sara Rogel was arrested in October 2012 after going to a hospital with…
“#Iowa prisons to resume visitation for vaccinated inmates” CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Corrections has announced it will resume in-person visitation in early July for those prisoners who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The department announced the decision Friday, the Gazette reported, as more than 58 percent of those incarcerated in Iowa’s…
“#Kremlin critic Navalny is returned to prison facility after hunger strike” Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been returned to the original correctional facility where he had been serving out a sentence after he recovered from a hunger strike at a hospital in a different prison, the TASS news agency reported on Monday. The 45-year-old opposition politician had declared a hunger strike in late March to demand better medical care in prison after experiencing acute leg…
“#Cooks, nurses guard inmates with US prisons down 6K officers” Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates. At a federal penitentiary in Texas, prisoners are locked in their cells on weekends because there are not enough…
“#Manhattan Judge says NYC federal lockups are ‘run by morons’” A senior judge in New York blasted the conditions of two notorious federal jails in the city during a recent sentencing hearing — saying they are run by “morons” who subject prisoners to disgusting conditions, according to a court transcript. Manhattan federal court Judge Colleen…
“#Thai mothers fight for activist children charged with insulting king” Sureerat Chiwarak sat with calm resolve in front of a Bangkok court as her head was shaved in a protest to support her activist son, jailed for weeks without bail on criminal charges of insulting Thailand’s powerful king. It was a moment the 51-year-old business…
“#Letters to the Editor — May 6, 2021” The Issue: Sheldon Silver’s furlough from prison just eight months into his 78-month sentence. The Post’s editorial about former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s release just proves the double standard that exists in New York state (“Get Shelly Back to Prison,” May 5). This criminal was convicted by…
“#Monster behind ‘The Girl in the Bunker’ dies in prison” A monster who kidnapped a 14-year-old girl and kept her in an underground bunker for 10 days — where he raped and tortured her — died on Monday in a South Carolina prison. Vinson Filyaw, 51, who was serving a 421-year sentence after pleading guilty…