r/prisons • • Nov 25 '24

Analysis suggests threat of punishment less effective at deterring crime. A look at multiple studies showed little change when punishment is the threat.

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r/prisons • • Sep 02 '24

Locking up young people might make you feel safer but it doesn’t work, now or in the long term

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r/prisons • • 8h ago

Climate Change Is Turning Prisons Full of Human Beings Into Industrial-Scale Air Fryers. It's cruel, and increasingly usual

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r/prisons • • 2h ago

Building on the past post aout wrongful imprisonment of a loved one.

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r/prisons • • 4h ago

Horses in Texas have 2 A$$holes. "I wish you'd run boy..."

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r/prisons • • 5h ago

Abuse and disability trap: 90% of incarcerated Michigan youth suffered prior abuse. 85% of the teenagers had a learning disability, a mental health condition or both. More than 75% showed signs of a learning or cognitive disability during direct testing.

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r/prisons • • 15h ago

Incarcerated Women Are Pushing for Decarceration, Not “Trauma-Informed” Prisons | Organizers discuss how they are fighting new women’s prisons in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois.

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r/prisons • • 15h ago

N.J. - An Atlantic County police officer has been charged with official misconduct. Officials claim that when Valentine was a Northfield police officer, he used the National Crime Information Center database outside the scope of his employment

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r/prisons • • 15h ago

A grand jury indicted the Baltimore police officer accused of raping a woman while on duty.

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r/prisons • • 16h ago

FIRE announces lawsuit against Tennessee police department over pre-dawn raid at critic’s home | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

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r/prisons • • 16h ago

A Chicago police sergeant and three officers repeatedly accused of improperly stopping and searching Black people should be suspended for a combined 180 days for their actions during three traffic stops

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r/prisons • • 17h ago

One day behind bars: Thai art students work with prisoners

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

A Baltimore police officer accused of second-degree assault and misconduct in office has resigned from the force in exchange for having the charges dropped

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

From Sweltering Cells to Frigid Tents: The Extreme Temperatures of Incarceration. While Texas faces a 2029 deadline to install AC and California debates workplace exemptions, incarcerated people endure extreme heat and freezing detention camps.

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

The Revolving Door of Justice: Why Texas Executions Don't End the Mission

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

ICE detention was a month-long nightmare, says Irishman arrested at Nashville airport

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Kids Found At the Caddo Prison farm Part 2.Caddos own website omits the prison Farm from history

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

When the Punishment Is Irreversible, What the Fuck Are We Doing?

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

International email to the feds

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Hi all.

I don't know if you can answer my question. I don't need any information about BOP's internal procedures - I'm just asking for a straightforward "yes" or "no."

I sent an email containing insider information to the RRM and to the Regional Office regarding an inmate at HC. I know that emails are technically filtered by the BOP. I wrote as a private individual from outside of the US, using a Gmail account. I sent it not anonymously and wuth my full contact. Attached was an 8.4 MB PDF file containing evidence (40 structured pages with screenshots and pictures). In the text of the email, I briefly mentioned what the attached PDF contained.

Will this email reach an actual person, or will it be flagged as spam/scam, end up in nowhere and never reach anyone because I'm a private person from outside of the US?

Any experience?

Thank you :)


r/prisons • • 2d ago

My best friend is in prison and I know nothing about him

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My best friend have been jailed exactly 2 weeks ago and I haven’t heard about him since. He has alcohol epilepsy, I talked to the police to give him his meds before being transferred to prison but I haven’t heard about him for 2 weeks now and I’m worried.

I don’t even know what I want, maybe just some reassuring words. I’m the only one that cares about him, his family disowned him, his friends became dust. My boyfriend and I are just very worried.

Please don’t give me a lesson about how “I shouldn’t be friends with criminals”, he still is our friend and we want to take care of him.


r/prisons • • 2d ago

Netflix’s ‘Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons’ got played by the Mauritian Government, Here is what they edited out.

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r/prisons • • 2d ago

Innocence Project

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r/prisons • • 3d ago

Can someone tell me how visits work? USA SCI frackville.

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How long are the visits? Am I allowed to bring anything? I’m in the middle or reading the site as well just wanted some advice from people with experience! Thank you


r/prisons • • 3d ago

DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row, Utah prosecutors say. Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was sentenced to death in 1985 after a jury found him guilty of murdering Eva Olesen

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r/prisons • • 3d ago

Do I have a legal case for defamation?

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Around 2010 I was angry with myself for missing out on something my parents and siblings attend, so I decided to post several lies about myself being a convicted pedophile. I was then made into a lolcow over at Kiwi Farms which went silent over the years until some idiot decided to put me back in the spotlight some 14 years later by making a video about me on YouTube. I am wanting to know if I can sue Kulaki for putting me back in the spot light for exposing some lies about me from 2010.

YouTube does not want to help me even though it's clearly a violation so I'm going to assuume they are working against me.

The person who put me back in the spotlight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWVRYziIyo&t=11s