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Thousands of Prisoners in U.K. to Be Freed Early to Ease Overcrowding

The Labour government, which took power this past week, said it had been forced into the move because previous Conservative…

News

For This Drama, Some Actors Returned to Prison by Choice

Alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, ex-inmates shot “Sing Sing” in a decommissioned correctional facility. Then came the screening in…

World

Kremlin Critic Is ‘Stable’ in Russian Prison Hospital, Lawyer Says

Vladimir Kara-Murza’s legal representatives said they were denied access to their client in a remote Siberian penal colony for six…

World

N.Y. Prisons Have Ignored Limits on Solitary Confinement, Judge Finds

Legally, time in solitary confinement is limited to 15 days, and only if prison officials offer a detailed rationale. Lawyers…

News

End Legal Slavery in the United States

Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the farthest outpost in America. Many people…

World

Man Charged as Lookout in Whitey Bulger Killing Admits to Lying to F.B.I.

Sean McKinnon, accused of conspiring to murder the aging mobster in prison, pleaded guilty to making false statements to investigators…

World

Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War

Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small…

World

N.Y. Prisons Holding Mentally Ill People in Solitary, Lawsuit Says

A complaint filed by the Legal Aid Society and others accuses the state prison system of holding mentally ill and…

World

When Prison and Mental Illness Amount to a Death Sentence

Markus Johnson slumped naked against the wall of his cell, skin flecked with pepper spray, his face a mask of…

Magazine

5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner

Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in…

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