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Nevada has officially scheduled the execution of Scott Raymond Dozier, 47, for July 11. While Dozier has repeatedly stated the wish to die, the sentence was delayed due to ethical concerns over an unusual mix of drugs to be used. Dozier will become the first death row inmate in Nevada jails to be executed in […]
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has visited Moscow’s Butyrskaya prison for the first time ever, to celebrate the Easter Holiday with the inmates and to offer them presents. “The fact of imprisonment is a very rigorous test,” Patriarch Kirill told over a hundred convicts, who gathered outside the prison chapel to […]
Eric Christian Smith/AP Houston Texans owner Bob McNair said he regrets apologizing for controversial comments regarding player protests during the national anthem. McNair faced backlash after he said, “We can’t have the inmates running the prison” over handling the protests. McNair said he was not referring to players and did not need to apologize. McNair […]
North Carolina has ended the practice of shackling of women prisoners while they are giving birth. The US state joins only 18 others that regulate the practice, according to civil rights groups. State Prisons Director Kenneth Lassiter announced this week that restraints must be removed once an inmate is in labour unless she is a threat […]
Inmates with Hepatitis C in Nova Scotia jails are not eligible for the same treatment as other Nova Scotians, which advocates say represents a missed opportunity and health-care inequity.
Fifty-five of the 130 correctional workers at a multi-level psychiatric hospital in Saskatoon operated by the Correctional Service of Canada are on workers’ compensation because of attacks by inmates, CBC has learned. CBC | Health News
Many Houston Texans players knelt on Sunday after team owner Bob McNair made a controversial comment over national anthem protests. McNair referred to the need to stop anthem protests as “inmates running the system.” McNair faced considerable backlash after making the comment, for which he apologized. A majority of Houston Texans players knelt during the […]
Eric Christian Smith/AP During an NFL owners meeting, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair said the league cannot allow “inmates running the prison” in regard to players’ national anthem protests. According to a report, some owners were “stunned” by the statement. McNair later apologized to NFL executive Troy Vincent, who felt offended by the statement, and […]
Published time: 12 Oct, 2017 09:24 Prison staff were “attacked with pool balls” during a “disturbance” that saw 80 inmates take over a wing at a high-security prison in Worcestershire on Wednesday night. Read more The disorder at the Category A prison HMP Long Lartin was reportedly brought back under control in the early hours […]
Poor treatment of Indigenous women and inmates with mental illness is behind the growing tension at the Edmonton Institution for Women, prisoner advocates say. CBC | Health News
