Prison
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World
The Vatican Transforms a Prison Into a Gallery
For its offering at this year’s Venice Biennale, the Holy See chose an unusual venue: the Giudecca women’s prison.
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US
Federal Officials to Shut Women’s Prison After Years of Sexual Abuse
About 600 inmates housed at the troubled facility in the San Francisco Bay Area will be transferred to other federal institutions.
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World
Challenged by Uprising, Myanmar Junta Cracks Down Harder
The country’s military rulers have signaled a new wave of detentions and, rights groups say, conditions for existing prisoners have deteriorated.
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US
Tougher Security Measures Are Causing Upset at Guantánamo Prison
An effort to unshackle a detainee during legal meetings has put a spotlight on simmering tensions in the Pentagon’s secretive prison.
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US
How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases
Here’s how the former crypto mogul’s 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.
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US
Warden Ousted From Federal Women’s Prison Plagued by Sex Abuse
Leaders of a Northern California prison were removed on the same day that the F.B.I. raided the troubled facility.
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Newyork
Living Slow Deaths Behind Bars
Scientists have found that most cells in our bodies regenerate every seven to 10 years on average. This includes certain cells in the heart and brain. Can we assume, then, that our moral and emotional compasses are also capable of transforming over ...
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US
C.I.A. Violently Cut Off 9/11 Suspect When He Tried to Talk About Attacks
In the aftermath of the attacks, interrogators were determined to get Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to discuss Al Qaeda’s future plans, a psychologist testified.
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World
From Frigid Cells to Mystery Injections, Prison Imperiled Navalny’s Health
Although Aleksei A. Navalny’s cause of death is not known, his staff often worried that brutal conditions imposed on him in ever crueler prisons might lead to his death.
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World
Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47
Aleksei A. Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia while enduring arrests, assaults and a near-fatal poisoning, died Friday in a Russian prison, according to ...