Category: prisoners

2 Female Prisoners at New Jersey Corrections Facility Pregnant After Having Sex With Transgender Inmates

Two female inmates at New Jersey’s only all-women prison have fallen pregnant after having consensual sex with transgender inmates, officials have said. The unidentified pregnant women are incarcerated at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, which houses 27 prisoners who identify as transgender and more than 800 women in total. They fell pregnant after engaging in “consensual sexual…


3 Men Escape Correctional Facility in Australia’s Northern Territory

Northern Territory Police have stepped up their search for three men who escaped from the Barkly Work Camp in Tennant Creek on Saturday night at around 11:30 p.m. According to an NT Police media release, the trio, Ezra Austral (23 years), Richard Henwood (37), and Maximus Cutta (20), fled the facility after removing their electronic monitoring…


In This Season of Compassion, Spare a Thought for Prisoners

Commentary During the weeks between Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas I always recall warm childhood memories of the season: my parents preparing baskets for the needy, special decorations, shopping for gifts and happy family and friends who came to visit. It was a time full of hugs, good food, and meaningful communion with others. This is…


Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for California Prison Workers and Inmates

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all California prison workers to get shots against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus unless they have a religious or medical exemption. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week approved a request for a stay (or temporary stop) of the order pending…


Violent Criminals with Harsher Sentences Less Likely Rearrested, Study Shows

Violent criminals in the United States were less likely to be rearrested if they spent more time in prison before release, a large, long-term study has shown. Nearly 77 percent of people imprisoned for a violent crime were arrested again within 10 years of release. The rate was lower, though, for those who served harsher…


Violent Criminals With Harsher Sentences Less Likely to Be Rearrested, Study Shows

Violent criminals in the United States were less likely to be rearrested if they spent more time in prison before release, a large, long-term study has shown. Nearly 77 percent of people imprisoned for a violent crime were arrested again within 10 years of release. The rate was lower, though, for those who served harsher…


Leaked Footage Shows Grim Conditions in Iran’s Evin Prison

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The guard in a control room at Iran’s notorious Evin prison springs to attention as one by one, monitors in front of him suddenly blink off and display something very different from the surveillance footage he had been watching. “Cyberattack,” the monitors flash. Other guards gather around, holding up their mobile phones…


Leftist Protestors Interrupt GOP Lawmakers Inquiring Into Treatment of Jan. 6 Prisoners

A small cadre of Republican lawmakers gathered outside the Department of Justice on Tuesday afternoon to air concerns about the treatment of prisoners arrested for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots. “We weren’t even let in the lobby,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said, standing at the DOJ’s doorstep. They weren’t left…


2 Guards Taken Hostage by Inmates at Prison in Sweden

OSLO, Norway—Two inmates took a pair of prison guards hostage Wednesday at a Swedish penitentiary and are barricaded inside in what the country’s prison department called “a very dangerous situation.” The inmates abducted the prison officers after breaking into a guards’ room soon after midday and covering up the surveillance cameras, the Swedish Prison and…


Court Orders New York State to Offer Vaccine to Prisoners

A Bronx judge ruled on Monday that New York unfairly excluded state prison and jail inmates from access to the CCP virus vaccine and must immediately begin offering them the jab. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alison Tuitt said in an order (pdf) that the Respondents—Howard Zucker, Commissioner of Health for New York State, and Gov….