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Peru is considering sending foreign prisoners to El Salvador
Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign inmates to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister ...
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes seeks to cut more than two years off sentence, arguing she has helped fellow prisoners and herself
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, imprisoned in Texas after felony fraud convictions, this week asked the federal court in ...
New paper sheds light on experience of Black prisoners in infamous Stateville prison malaria experiments
The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to ...
After nearly 6,000 California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids, officials launch sweeping review
Thousands of California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids last year because of a laboratory mistake. Now hundreds ...
Stateville prison malaria research reexamined: Scholars pull back curtain on untold story of Black prisoners
Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ...
More bodies of executed civil war-era prisoners uncovered under Greek city park
Local officials say another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals — has been dug up in a park in the ...
Low-income homeowners in flood zones risk becoming 'climate prisoners'
Climate change-related flooding poses growing systemic threats to the British residential property market, insurance sector ...
Syrian government and Kurdish-led force exchange prisoners in a step toward easing tensions
Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led force have exchanged more than 400 prisoners part of a deal reached earlier this year ...
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‘You Are Not Alone’ campaign raises over $150,000 for Russian political prisoners in a single day
The “You Are Not Alone” fundraiser, held on June 12 by independent Russian media outlets in partnership with the ...