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One of the main concerns had been the extensive population of the prison, which made social distancing impossible. [7] On 9 June 2021, an inmate of Jaw prison, Husain Barakat, died due to COVID-19 complications. [8] Even after the pandemic, Bahrain's Jaw prison remained controversial, where prisoners' rights of health continued to be violated.
In a 2017 opinion article, Chandra Bozelko, who found similar fulfillment in her prison job, worried that political pressure against prison labor might actually be hurting incarcerated people.
While schools are given an average yearly budget of 11 billion to school food programs and prisons are given a mere 205 million annual budget, still only less than one third of school food ...
The U.S. has a history of locking up more people than any other country – currently around 2 million – and goods tied to prison labor have morphed into a massive multibillion-dollar empire ...
Women in American prisons encounter numerous difficulties that often involve mental health problems, drug and alcohol issues, and trauma. These challenges not only make navigating the criminal justice system more difficult for women but also highlights broader societal issues such as gender-based violence, economic inequalities, and lack of mental health support. [1]
The focus of the High Desert State Prison hunger strike was to demand cleaner facilities, better food and better access to the library. [2] Due to the two-month hunger strike, lawmakers agreed to hold public hearings on the conditions within California's maximum security prisons where this prolonged solitary confinement has taken place. [1]
A typical prison cell block in Guantanamo Bay detention center, Camp Delta. Prison violence is a daily occurrence due to the diversity of inmates with varied criminal backgrounds and power dynamics at play in penitentiaries. The three different types of attacks are inmate on inmate, inmate on guard (and vice-versa), and self-inflicted.
At the same time, the Federal Bureau of Prisons was reporting that as of Dec. 31, 2022, Oklahoma had 22,745 people in its prison system, a 2.3% increase from December 2021.