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• Do You Think Prisons Should Be Privatized?

  
  Personal Blog of Justin Germino — Authority: 468
  The Governor of Arizona recently signed a bill into law that will allow for Arizona States Maximum Security prisons to be privatized. The governor did this in an attempt to save funding and cut the state budget, though the savings is estimated to be only between 1 – 2% of the budget. Bill Richardson a former Master ...
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• Suspect in Ft. Hood Shootings to Remain in Hospital

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at the Fort Hood army base earlier this month will not be moved immediately to a military prison for pretrial detention.
  21 hours ago

• Sept. 11 Defendant Is Said to Want Trial

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A defendant plans to admit his role in planning the terrorist attacks, and use his trial to voice his beliefs, his lawyer says.
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• Prison Riot Is Attributed to Lockdown

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  An August riot at a central Kentucky prison was caused by inmates reacting to a partial lockdown and to planned restrictions on their movement, investigators said Friday.
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• Letters: We certainly do want fewer people in jail

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Nick Cohen suggests that Nacro, the crime reduction charity, no longer criticises government policy because it "has become dependent on the state" (" How the government buys the silence of charities ", Comment). He argues that participation in private sector bids to run prisons prevents Nacro from arguing that fewer ...
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• Methadone makes addicts of prisoners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Thinktank says inmates are swapping one addiction for another Britains prison system churns out thousands of prisoners addicted to methadone, according to a thinktank with close links to the Tories. The Centre for Policy Studies claims that many inmates on the heroin substitute have little chance of being weaned ...
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• Inmate Timothy L. Redman Tortured to Death at Ely State Prison, Nevada

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 565
  Yesterday morning, Timothy Redman, a death row inmate at Ely State Prison hung himself in his cell after being tortured for 2-2 1/2 hours, sprayed repeatedly with mace, until he couldn’t take it anymore and hung himself. [...]
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• After 18 Years, Freed to a World With Cellphones

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Fernando Bermudez Jr. in Danbury, Conn., with his wife, Crystal, and his children, Fernando, 3; Carissa, 8; and Chayla, 18.
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• Investment advice: put your money into prisons

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 689
  Arizona is considering selling off its prisons as part of a larger process of balancing the budget.  Even death row would be privately run .  The state government predicts the move could save them $100 million dollars, which is a sizable chunk of change until you consider the budget shortfall totals over $2 ...
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• Lily Keber : Putting Families in Jail in America

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 553
  Putting children in jail:T. Don Hutto and family detention in AmericaAs hope for change in Obama immigration policy dwindles, activists speculate on the fate of family detention.By Lily Keber / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009See Hutto: Americas Family Prison, A film by Lily Keber and Matt Gossage, Below.When she ...
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• U.N. rights experts call for proper toilets in prisons

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 115
  People held in jails and other detention centres around the world frequently have no access to clean toilets; a violation of their basic human rights, three United Nations investigators said Wednesday. In statements marking World Toilet Day , marked on November 19 since 2001, they said states and governments had the ...
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• U.N. rights experts call for proper toilets in prisons

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 474
  People held in jails and other detention centres around the world frequently have no access to clean toilets; a violation of their basic human rights, three United Nations investigators said Wednesday. In statements marking World Toilet Day , marked on November 19 since 2001, they said states and governments had the ...
  2 days ago

• CIA Secret Prison Found Outside Vilnius, Lithuania

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a ...
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• Letter: Tehran States Its Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  To the Editor:.
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• Inside A CIA Secret "Torture" Prison

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  A photo taken on November 19, 2009 shows a training center of the Lithuanian State Security Department, the countrys domestic intelligence agency, in Antavilis near Vilnius Photo: AFP/GETTY EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret Torture Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy -- ABC News ABC News Finds the ...
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• Lithuania opens new inquiry into CIA prisons

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 970
  VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence.
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• Letters: UK vacuum over children in custody

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the UNs adoption of the convention on the rights of the child . But 18 years after it was ratified by the UK, thousands of children in prison are still waiting for it to become a reality. Following the death of Baby P, the government focused attention on improvements to the child ...
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• Schumer: Ray Brook, Other Prisons Overcrowded

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 540
  NEW YORK—In a personal letter, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, has urged Attorney General Eric Holder to accept a request made by the Council of Prison Locals (CPL) of the American Federation of Government Employees to meet and discuss ways to combat the increasing violence in federal prisons in New York and across ...
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• Virginia News Stand: November 19, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 138
  Annotations & Elucidations Breaking News: Next Budget Shortfall $3.5 Billion! Breaking news this evening: Senate Finance Committee analysts told that committee’s members this afternoon that the next two-year budget will be $3.5 billion short, not to mention the current budget lacking another $209 ...
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• Virginia News Stand: November 19, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 138
  Annotations & Elucidations Breaking News: Next Budget Shortfall $3.5 Billion! Breaking news this evening: Senate Finance Committee analysts told that committee’s members this afternoon that the next two-year budget will be $3.5 billion short, not to mention the current budget lacking another $209 ...
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