Word: jailings
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...cipher at his side, the high-born wife whose social ministrations at smoke-filled political sessions flattered her husband's supporters. Ninoy's popularity soon challenged Ferdinand Marcos, who had been elected President in 1965. And so, when Marcos assumed dictatorial power in 1972, he threw his rival into jail. Corazon then became her husband's instrument, smuggling messages out of prison and raising funds for the opposition. But as long as he lived, Cory was merely an extension of Ninoy...
...state of emergency because of "severe overcrowding" in California's prisons, saying it had caused "substantial risk to the health and safety of the men and women who work inside these prisons and the inmates housed in them." In response, legislators passed AB 900, which earmarked $1.2 billion in jail-construction funding through state lease-revenue bonds. However, more than two years later, construction is still on hold as lawmakers quibble about the details. But it's not just a lack of buildings that is the problem. Says Krisberg: "Without programs and without services, the tensions that exist to begin...
...year, Mexico has suffered from a seemingly never-ending list of escapes, riots and murders in its prisons. In October 2008, prison inmates hurled grenades and sprayed Kalashnikov rounds at each other in a penitentiary in the Pacific state of Sinaloa. A month earlier, federal police stormed a rioting jail in the border city of Tijuana, resulting in the death of 23 prisoners. Just this past May, in the mining town of Zacatecas, 53 inmates simply walked out of a jail, leaving in a 17-car convoy backed by a helicopter...
...problem affects basic things like just not having enough water for all the inmates," says Deputy Warden Jose Luis Herrera, who let TIME inside one of the wings of Mexico City's Eastern Prison - the most populous jail in all of Latin America. "Then we have visiting hours when tens of thousands of family members can show up." Opened in 1976, the prison in the capital's rough Eastside was built for 4,700 prisoners. It currently has 12,500 inmates...
...part of an aid package to support the fight against the drug armies. Calderon has also promised to build more pens to cope with the burgeoning numbers. But some working in the prison system say the difficulties in the controlling the inmates will not be solved by raising more jail houses; the crisis, they say, also stems from profound problems in Mexico's justice apparatus. More than 41% of the nation's total prison population of 220,000 has not even been convicted and sentenced even though many of the prisoners have already spent several years behind bars. "There should...