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What Are the Ethics of Strapping VR Headsets on Inmates in Solitary Confinement?
Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...
New York lawmaker demands HALT Act be repealed after Hochul fired 2,000 prison guards
A New York lawmaker is calling on the state to repeal the HALT Act, a controversial law at the center of the recent prison ...
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At My Texas Prison, Solitary Confinement All But Guarantees Sexual Exploitation by Guards
After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...
Hundreds of prison guards flood NY state capital as wildcat strike stretches into 16th day: ‘Hold the line’
More than 1,000 prison guards flooded Albany on Tuesday, chanting a defiant message as pressure mounted on them to stop their ...
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Blueprint to reform NY prisons calls for end to lengthy solitary confinement
That blueprint, titled “A Moment of Reckoning”, was outlined in a virtual press conference on Thursday. The blueprint calls for an end to prolonged solitary confinement, a pathway for release for ...
NYS prison strike ends after 22 days with more than 2,000 correction officers fired
State Correction Commissioner Daniel Martuscello said the officers fired were those who remained on strike Monday morning.
Agreement in place to end wildcat strike by state prison correction officers
Correction officers said the work stoppage was the result of increased violence and forced overtime in state prisons.
New Deal Reached to End Wildcat Strikes by N.Y. Prison Guards
The state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...