Chaotic prison always on the brink
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Each day when inmates at Abu Ghraib prison lined up for meals in October 2003, dozens left hungry. Maj. David DiNenna, an Army operations officer at the prison near Baghdad, worried
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Official reports highlight problems in two British prisons, including a vermin infestation in one
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Maximum-security confinement may be pushing already unstable criminals -- "the worst of the worst" -- toward mental breakdown. And that's not good for any of us
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Jail never made anybody tougher. Youâre either tough before you go in or youâre not. If anything, jail makes you paranoid. Hopkins, 39, is probably boxingâs most paranoid representative.
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Prison officers are struggling to control a group of al-Qaeda terrorists who are clashing with other serious offenders in one of Britain's high-security jails
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Detainees flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts obtained by The Associated Press.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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A high risk convicted sex offender who poses a serious threat to children is on the run in Northern Ireland.
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ACLU says prison abuse witnesses threatenedSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  - Workers who saw abuses at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison were threatened by US special forces who confiscated photos of a prisoner they allegedly punched, US government memos released by
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.
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Vague but certain threats Â made in the presence of a psychiatrist, no less Â are not enough to send an unrepentant patient back to prison.
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A US commission looking into the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq says "there was chaos" at the infamous prison.
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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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The credit card lender is perpetually prepared for the worst.
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A judge threatened to jail the head of the state Department of Children &amp; Families if the agency can't explain why it consistently has failed to get mentally ill jail inmates into psychiatric treatment.
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Uncooperative Guantanamo Bay detainees were regularly subjected to highly abusive treatment over a long period of time, unidentified guards at the U.S. military base, intelligence agents and others who worked in the prison told The New York Times.
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Questions are raised about the mental state of the prison's senior officer just before the abuses there