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AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low.   |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes, and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones Prisoners are using cell phones to make calls, send text messages, and email to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes. |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Mafioso: Worst Prisons In America If you ever have to serve time, pray you don't have to do it in one of these, the worst prisons in America. |
Salon.com
June 18, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Nowhere left to hide Whether you're in jail or at the supermarket, your image might be shown on the Net, and there's not a thing you can do about it... |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Maria Russo |
Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons... |
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Jails To Charge For Room & Board Several states and some cities have gone to great lengths to squeeze money from inmates. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Barry Yeoman |
Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
Reason
May 2007
Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
Salon.com
August 27, 2001
King Kaufman |
The last integrationist? A Memphis attorney is using a 1963 desegregation lawsuit to block expansion of suburban schools and get a better deal for inner-city black students... |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
Vietnam
October 27, 2004
Joe Kolb |
Fighting Forces: Camp LBJ The notorious U.S. Army Vietnam Installation Stockade was known to GIs as the Long Binh Jail--or simply Camp LBJ. |
Smithsonian
September 2005
Myron Farber |
Presence of Mind - On Not Naming Names 27 years ago this reporter was given a choice: Identify his confidential sources or go to jail. He chose jail. |
ifeminists
February 3, 2008
WolfmanMac |
A Former Policeman Speaks Out An former policeman relays a story of a woman misusing the system designed to protect victims of domestic violence. |
Adventure
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Shan-san Wu |
The Atkins Zone The Houdini of fast escapes from international prisons advises on how to get out--and stay out--of jail while traveling abroad. Plus, some good reasons to avoid getting slammed in these six notorious tourist traps. |
Salon.com
July 26, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Busting the prison-industrial complex After years of tougher sentencing laws and increased incarceration of juveniles, the tide in California is beginning to turn... |
Wild West
William Bell |
The Reno Gang's Reign Of Terror Long before the James brothers began robbing trains, the Reno brothers tried their hand at it in post-Civil War Indiana, but the outlaw Hoosiers' reign didn't last long. |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
Wild West
August 2005
Allen G. Hatley |
The Mason County War Top Texas Feud The 1875 blood feud, also known as the Hoodoo War and featuring the likes of former Texas Ranger Scott Cooley and up-and-coming legend John Ringo, pitted German settlers against American-born cowboys. |
Salon.com
August 27, 2001
Sara Kelly |
Detention convention At the 131st Congress of Correction, the incarceration industry puts on a bizarre show. From execution jokes to soap -- without a rope -- it's a great place for networking... |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
ifeminists
November 3, 2007 |
Child Support: The Fallacy, The Fraud, And The Failure The Family Law system in the U.S. is a disease-ridden, corrupt socialist system that will ultimately destroy us. |
Job Journal
June 22, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Security Guard Protecting you and your valuables, at home or at work. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Damien Cave |
The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Tom McNichol |
Keeping Cell Phones Out of Jail Cells As prisons try to block unauthorized cell phone use, companies are developing systems that cost over $1 million to address the problem. |
Salon.com
August 4, 2000
Anthony York |
Taking it from the streets Philly police face ugly allegations after hundreds of protesters are detained for more than two days. |
Smithsonian
May 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Breaking into Alcatraz A former guard's inside look at America's most famous prison |
American History
William & Mary Lavender |
Suffragists' Storm Wartime Washington dealt brutally with imprisoned suffragists who dared picket the White House for the right to vote in 1917. |
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Pedal Vision Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has started a program he calls "Pedal Vision," in which inmates pedal stationary bikes to generate electricity for television sets. |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
ifeminists
September 7, 2005
Loretta Nall |
The Great Prison Panty Rebellion of Alabama This Alabama gubernatorial candidate recounts a harrowing experience in attempting to visit her brother in a state correctional facility, but was denied due to her not wearing panties. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. |
Job Journal
April 8, 2007
Rich Heintz |
Providing a Sense of Security Private security jobs on the upswing in an anxious America. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Erik Sofge |
High-Tech Lockup: Inside 4 Next-Gen Prison Security Systems From radio-frequency identification (RFID) bracelets tracking a suspicious gathering in the library to a scaled-down version of the military's "pain ray," a new crop of high-tech systems is being considered to tamp prison violence. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010 |
Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn The former Hewlett-Packard chairman on fighting criminal fraud charges in 2006 after a company investigation of leaks to reporters |
Teacher Magazine
August 2000
Gregory Michie |
And Justice For Some They were gang members, yes. But they were also our children. In the media, the gang label has become a sort of shorthand, a quick and easy answer for what's gone wrong in urban neighborhoods. But as I've observed my students over the years, I've come to see gangs more as effect than cause. |
ifeminists
September 23, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Do Poor Fathers Deserve Debtors' Prison? What does throwing a "deadbeat dad" in jail accomplish? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2006
Mark Senak |
Opinion: CARE for Mental Illness There's a disease that afflicts this country when it comes to caring for mentally ill patients. It's called neglect. The cure? Stakeholders should have a look at the Ryan White CARE Act. |
Job Journal
April 18, 2004
Julia Hollister |
Proud Service: Careers in Public Safety Opportunity in law enforcement abound for those who want to wear a badge. Check out these great career opportunities and website resources. |
| AskMen.com |
Jailed For Yawning A 33-year-old suburban Chicago man is facing six months in jail for a "loud and boisterous" yawn in court last month. |
Reason
December 2007
Radley Balko |
Ganging Up Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff recently introduced legislation to combat gang violence. But a new study by the Justice Policy Institute concludes most efforts aren't working. |
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Punishment In 2010 An East Tennessee woman has been charged with forcing her 5-year-old son to smoke a cigarette. |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
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Jail Over Marriage? A central Pennsylvania man who said he robbed a bank to go to jail and get away from his overbearing wife was sentenced to three to six years in prison. |
Salon.com
September 27, 2000
Callie Milton |
Hard-to-swallow soup for a kid's soul Should I tell my sons about the drugs, the drinking and the jail in Daytona? |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Geri Smith |
Sister Of Mercy "The Prison Angel" provides an effective portrayal of the human side of Mexico's broken justice system through the tale of an American nun ministering to inmates in Tijuana's toughest jail. |
AskMen.com
Ashley Allinson |
Jail Flicks Five great rental bets, bar none, for a night when you find yourself locked in: Escape From Alcatraz (1979)... Midnight Express (1978)... Murder In The First (1995)... Das Experiment (2001)... Carandiru (2003)... |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Damien Cave |
Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars. |
ifeminists
May 19, 2004
Leving & Sacks |
It's Child Support Guidelines that Need Surgery, Not 'Deadbeat Dads' The pot of child support gold--which hard-line judges and Attorneys General often insist they're going to find if we'd just get tough on deadbeats--simply does not exist. |
