Prison
-
World
N.Y. Prisons Have Ignored Limits on Solitary Confinement, Judge Finds
Legally, time in solitary confinement is limited to 15 days, and only if prison officials offer a detailed rationale. Lawyers say the requirements have been routinely disregarded.
-
World
N.Y. Prisons Holding Mentally Ill People in Solitary, Lawsuit Says
A complaint filed by the Legal Aid Society and others accuses the state prison system of holding mentally ill and disabled people in isolation despite a law against the practice.
-
World
When Prison and Mental Illness Amount to a Death Sentence
Markus Johnson slumped naked against the wall of his cell, skin flecked with pepper spray, his face a mask of puzzlement, exhaustion and resignation. Four men in black tactical gear pinned him, his face to the concrete, to cuff his hands behind his ...
-
Magazine
5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner
Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in Russia, sewing uniforms for the Russian military and subsisting on spoiled food. She lived for glimpses of the sky. She had never been ...
-
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.
-
World
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.
-
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.
-
World
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.
-
World
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.
-
World
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.