Ecuadorean security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks, and more than two dozen bladed weapons, among other items, from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo, the country’s military said on Friday. Police and operatives of the SNAI prison authority were shown wheeling out two pigs from the prison in…
Jobs Denied, Personal Property Seized: Chinese Regime’s Way of Eradicating Faith
The world is condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghur Muslims, and Buddhists. The coercive means used to transform these people of faith are gross and inhumane such as unlawful imprisonment, extreme torture methods, sexual abuse, psychiatric abuse, and forced organ harvesting. However, the persecution is not just confined to the CCP’s labor…
Kate Coleman: ‘Women in Prisons are Vulnerable and Should be Protected from Male Offenders’ | British Thought Leaders
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Kate Coleman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex – an organisation campaigning for the sex-based rights of women in prison. Kate talks about recent headlines of men, convicted of crimes against women, claiming they identify as women and being assigned to female prisons. Kate also talks about the dangers…
Australia’s Prisons Costing Taxpayers Dearly
A new report has shown that Australia’s imprisonment rate has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2000 and is above all Western European countries and Canada, yet instead of reducing crime, it has only led to higher rates of reoffending. Australia now imprisons more people than at any time since 1900, costing taxpayers over $3.6…
Transgender Prisoners Shouldn’t Be in Canadian Women’s Prisons: Report
Incarcerated women are far more likely than men to have experienced sexual abuse in their lives, and having male-bodied inmates share their private space is retraumatizing, says a report published this week by the MacDonald Laurier Institute. In Canada, men who don’t genuinely identify as women can also say they do, says April Kitzul, a…
El Salvador Opens 40,000-Person Prison as Arrests Soar in Gang Crackdown
SAN SALVADOR—Authorities in El Salvador have opened one of Latin America’s largest prisons, more than doubling the country’s incarceration capacity, as a government crackdown on criminal gangs is causing the prison population to soar. The 40,000-capacity Terrorism Confinement Center was inaugurated on Tuesday to help relieve some of the overpopulation in the country’s prison system….
Biden Says No F-16s for Ukraine as Russia Claims Gains
KYIV, Ukraine/WASHINGTON—The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its fight against Russia, President Joe Biden said on Monday, as Russian forces claimed a series of incremental gains in the country’s east. Ukraine planned to push for Western fourth-generation fighter jets such as the F-16 after securing supplies…
Record Number of Prisoners Dying in Scottish Jails, With Drugs and Suicide to Blame
Deaths in Scottish prisons have reached record levels in the last three years and only a fraction of the number were as a result of COVID-19, say researchers from the University of Glasgow. In their report the team, led by Sarah Armstrong, a professor of criminology, found there had been 121 deaths in jails in Scotland…
Justice Department Failed to Report Nearly 1,000 Deaths in State and Local Prisons: Senate Committee
A probe by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Government Accountability Office has found that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is failing to adequately and efficiently collect data about deaths in state prisons and local jails and that the true number of deaths is likely much higher. The report (pdf), a culmination of a…
9 Islamic Terrorists Refusing to Engage in Deradicalisation Process in UK Jails
A report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons has found that nine Islamist terrorists being held in two special “separation centres” in British prisons are refusing to engage in deradicalisation and other programmes designed to tackle offender behaviour. In April 2022 inspectors visited the centres in Woodhill prison in Buckinghamshire, and Frankland prison in County…
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