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The Vatican Transforms a Prison Into a Gallery

For its offering at this year’s Venice Biennale, the Holy See chose an unusual venue: the Giudecca women’s prison.

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Federal Officials to Shut Women’s Prison After Years of Sexual Abuse

About 600 inmates housed at the troubled facility in the San Francisco Bay Area will be transferred to other federal…

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Challenged by Uprising, Myanmar Junta Cracks Down Harder

The country’s military rulers have signaled a new wave of detentions and, rights groups say, conditions for existing prisoners have…

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Tougher Security Measures Are Causing Upset at Guantánamo Prison

An effort to unshackle a detainee during legal meetings has put a spotlight on simmering tensions in the Pentagon’s secretive…

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How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases

Here’s how the former crypto mogul’s 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.

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Warden Ousted From Federal Women’s Prison Plagued by Sex Abuse

Leaders of a Northern California prison were removed on the same day that the F.B.I. raided the troubled facility.

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Living Slow Deaths Behind Bars

Scientists have found that most cells in our bodies regenerate every seven to 10 years on average. This includes certain…

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C.I.A. Violently Cut Off 9/11 Suspect When He Tried to Talk About Attacks

In the aftermath of the attacks, interrogators were determined to get Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to discuss Al Qaeda’s future plans,…

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From Frigid Cells to Mystery Injections, Prison Imperiled Navalny’s Health

Although Aleksei A. Navalny’s cause of death is not known, his staff often worried that brutal conditions imposed on him…

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Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47

Aleksei A. Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir V.…

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