Tag: Treatment of prisoners

Longest serving death row inmate in US resentenced to life

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HOUSTON — The longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after prosecutors in Texas concluded...

Navalny daughter accepts human rights award on his behalf

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GENEVA — The daughter of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accepted a human rights award on her father's behalf on Tuesday for his...

UK ‘people’s tribunal’ hears claims China abused Uyghurs

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LONDON — A “people’s tribunal” set up to assess whether China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people constitute genocide opened in London on...

In Belarus, yellow tags single out political prisoners

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KYIV, Ukraine — While visiting her son in a Belarusian prison, Natallia Makavetskaya saw deep scars on his wrists left by tight handcuffs. She...

Lawsuit: Detainees put in Mace-filled cells, denied water

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A federal lawsuit filed Monday accuses St. Louis correctional officers of putting jail detainees in a room and spraying so much Mace that they...

Cooks, nurses guard inmates with US prisons down 6K officers

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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...

US ends use of 2 immigration jails accused of mistreatment

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will stop using immigration detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia that are the subject of...

DOJ: Alabama prisons remain deadly, homicides increasing

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MONTGOMERY, Ala, — Alabama prisons remain deadly and dangerous two years after federal officials warned the state of unconstitutional conditions, the U.S. Department of...

Belarus: Staff of popular news site in detention after raids

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ten employees of a popular news site in Belarus that was raided and blocked by authorities this week remain in detention,...

Rights group urges Egypt to free detained mother of inmate

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CAIRO — A leading international rights group on Tuesday urged Egyptian authorities to release a woman who was arrested apparently over publishing a letter...