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• Report: Unofficial Jails For Chinese Who Complain

  
  Blogger — Authority: 164
  Kidnapping villagers who have traveled to Beijing to lodge complaints with China’s central government and keeping them in unofficial jails to silence them has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to crack down on, a human rights group said Thursday. However, a Foreign Ministry spokesman ...
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• Northampton County Jail: Lorenas Story of Medical Neglect & Abuse

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 437
  Earlier this week, I told you about Controller Steve Barrons audit pointing to overtime abuse at Northampton Countys jail. Although no fraud is alleged, Barrons job was certainly made more difficult by the destruction of daily time sheets. At the time Barrons report was released, I was sitting on another lengthy ...
  19 hours ago

• China: Secret “Black Jails” Hide Severe Rights Abuses

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) - Since 2003, large numbers of Chinese citizens have been held incommunicado for days or months in secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" by state agents who violate detainees rights with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. read more
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• Chinas black jails still operating report says

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  China continues to operate a network of "black jails" to detain poor people who attempt to go to Beijing to complain about injustices at the hands of corrupt local officials according to Human Rights Watch.
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• Court asks for details of undertrials in Tihar jail

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Taking note of the increasing number of undertrials languishing in Tihar jail, the Delhi High Court Wednesday asked police to submit a detailed record of people who are in jail for more than seven years.A division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar asked the ...
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• Punjab to give telephone facility in jails

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Chandigarh, Nov 11 (IANS) The Punjab government Wednesday announced that it would provide telephone facility to prisoners to enable them to talk to their family members.Punjab Jails Minister Hira Singh Gabria said that this facility would be provided through public call office (PCO) system to check the illegal ...
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• Restorative justice

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Let me commend this Bill King op-ed , about the plight of ex-cons in Texas and the efforts of the Restorative Justice Ministry Network to try and help them re-integrate into society, to you. It’s well worth reading. The issue, and why you should care, in a nutshell: At the rate we put people in prison in Texas we ...
  2 days ago

• Controller Steve Barron: Shift Switching Leads to OT Abuse at Jail

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 437
  An audit report released yesterday by Northampton County Controller Steve Barron reveals a stunning 76.1% overtime (OT) increase since 2004. Whats even more amazing, as he revealed during a budget hearing later that day, is that "Lehigh Countys around seventy percent. So both counties have seen some struggles." ...
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• No mineral water for criminals please, says Bihar top cop

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Patna, Nov 8 (IANS) Bihar Director General of Police Anand Shankar has slammed the reported practice of giving bottled mineral water to influential undertrials in the state.“‘Hawalat mein bund criminals ko mineral water dena bund karein aur badmashon (criminals) se dosti bund kijiye’(stop providing mineral water ...
  4 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Woman Says Cleveland Killer Attacked Her • San Francisco Bans Cat Declawing [Leftovers]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  • Tanja Doss says Anthony Sowell choked and threatened her earlier this year in the Cleveland home where 11 decomposing bodies were found. She didnt report the crime and now she believes her friend was one of his victims. Carmichael says Sowell invited her to the house in April for a beer. They were upstairs ...
  1 week ago

• Travis County jail expansion results in few new beds

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 580
  Travis County opened a massive new jail wing last week with 1,336 beds, though those will mostly replace so-called "variance" beds that the state Commission on Jail Standards previously authorized with temporary waivers to accommodate of jail overcrowding. (The daily newspaper didnt cover the story, though it got some ...
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• Arizona a laughing stock once again

  
  Valley PR Blog — Authority: 425
  Arizona definitely needs a public relations campaign or the rest of the world is going to continue to think we’re a bunch of yahoos. Whether we’re bringing guns in bars or bringing loaded assault weapons to Obama speeches , we can’t seem to stay out of the national parody news. We did it again on Tuesday ...
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• Reduce pretrial detention to stave off jail overcrowding

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 580
  I had a conversation with someone today at the Travis County Sheriffs Office who was surprised to learn that Travis County has one of the highest rates of jailed pretrial detainees among large counties, so I thought Id gather up the relevant data for comparison. As described on this blog many times, the primary cause ...
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• Tajikistan announces amnesty for 10,000 prisoners

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Almaty (Kazakhstan), Nov 4 (IANS) Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon has signed an amnesty, granting freedom to some 10,000 prisoners, officials said Wednesday.The amnesty was passed to mark the 15th anniversary of Tajikistan’s constitution Nov 6, the country’s presidential news service said.The prisoners were ...
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• Sirhan Sirhan moved to Coalinga prison

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 814
  Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968, has been transferred to a different prison, California corrections officials said today. Sirhan, who has been in the state prison system since May 5, 1969, was moved from California State Prison in Corcoran to Pleasant ...
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• ‘Jail’ - of grim prison conditions and inmates’ tales (IANS preview)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) He is known for weaving reality with fiction and portraying the dark side of life in his films. Now director Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Jail” that releases Friday will put the spotlight on the grim goings-on inside an Indian prison.Co-produced by Percept Picture Company and Bhandarkar ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Detention officer tries to explain why he swiped attorneys file

  
  Heat City — Authority: 605
  Video shows Maricopa County sheriffs employees sneaking a document from the file of a defense attorney. A Maricopa County detention officer tried to explain Friday why he and a fellow sheriffs office employee swiped a document from a defense attorneys file in a bizarre scene that was caught on courtroom videotape. ...
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• Jail violence down

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 152
  In the last year, attacks on Hillsborough deputies working inside the jails have gone down dramatically, and so, statistics show, has the use of force by deputies against inmates. Go here to see the original: Jail violence down
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