Overcharged
By Emily Jane Goodman

This article appeared in the September 22, 2008 edition of The Nation.

September 3, 2008

Paying a debt to society now means more than doing time. In addition to prison sentences or alternatives to incarceration such as drug programs, fees and surcharges are being imposed on criminal offenders throughout the ( Read more... )

Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq's overcrowded juvenile prison system
· Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells
· No money to improve conditions, says ministry

• Jonathan Steele in Baghdad
• The Guardian,
• Monday September 8 2008
  

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* William Shaw

* The Guardian,
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Investigation conducted by Israeli Bar finds prison wardens regularly subject inmates to inhumane conditions including unleashing of dogs, debasement. Prisoners also complain of delay in medical treatment to point of death

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Elderly Chinese Women Sentenced to Labor Re-education

Wu Dianyuan, Wang Xiuying Had Applied for Permission to Protest at the Olympics

By Ariana Eunjung Cha

Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, August 20, 2008; 10:43 AM

BEIJING, Aug. 20 -- Two elderly women were sentenced to a year of labor re-education after they applied for permits to demonstrate ( Read more... )

Friday 15 August 2008

by: Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t | Report

Due to endless litigation, conflicting legal technicalities, or inadequate transitional facilities, prisoners who are innocent may find themselves behind bars indefinitely.

Former Black Panther Albert Woodfox, convicted of murdering a prison guard with two other inmates, has spent ( Read more... )

Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2008

By MAX B. BAKER
maxbaker@star-telegram.com

The last time John Michael Harvey was in Fort Worth, he couldn’t wait to get away.

Pale, his head shaved and weighing a bony 130 pounds, Harvey had just been released from a Texas prison after spending 12 years there for a crime he didn’t commit. Everything he owned was in two ( Read more... )

Scandals threaten to paint red-state Alaska blue

By Karl Vick

The Washington Post
Posted August 16, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On the summer morning he would deliver himself to federal marshals to begin a 3½-year sentence for accepting an oil company's bribes, former Republican state lawmaker Vic Kohring parked along the side of Alaska's busiest ( Read more... )

"They wanted to take my father. I told them take me instead."

Added: August 11, 2008

9 Year old in US prison This has to be stopped

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Army quick to condemn rare cases while hiding daily abuse of Palestinians

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Published: 07.26.08, 13:03 / Israel Opinion

The whole world saw the obedient Israeli soldier (according to his own version at least) following the order he got without hesitation and shooting the ( Read more... )