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9:52pm, 6th May, 2019

Virginia's use of solitary confinement in prisons challenged in court

Virginia's prison system has violated the constitutional rights of inmates by holding them in solitary confinement for years, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday that alleges the practice can result in hallucinations and suicidal thoughts.

In U.S. prisons, tablets open window to the outside world

5:54am, 18th July, 2018

US

In U.S. prisons, tablets open window to the outside world

Marvin Worthy, confined to a New Jersey state prison since 2004, cannot watch his son play basketball or visit him in college. But for the past three years, a tablet computer has kept their relationship alive.

Exclusive: U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons

7:01am, 8th June, 2018

Politics

Exclusive: U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold d...

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