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...warden at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York agreed to turn off the lights in the exercise yard, it might have been possible to see a galaxy. But turning off the lights is not something you do at a maximum-security prison. So the 18 students in the inmate astronomy class--who were getting their first chance to peek through a telescope at the impossibly open sky above them--had to content themselves with the moon and Saturn...
...such instance was the interview of former prison official Johan Steinberg, in which he described his work as a warden on death row in Pretoria Central Prison, where many activists were hanged...
...chorus to her show-stopping number from the blockbuster film Chicago, Queen Latifah’s jail warden character, Mama, belts out, “When you’re good to Mama / Mama’s good...
...response to the Department of Corrections’ past inability to preserve prisoners’ due process protections. The violation of these constitutional protections can and will have dramatic affects on a large number of inmates. Consider this: according to the 1998 court testimony of one maximum-security prison warden, approximately 85 percent of Massachusetts prisoners then in solitary confinement units had simply been overclassified. They didn’t belong in solitary confinement and could have remained in standard or even minimal security conditions without any additional threat. A majority of those prisoners to this day still suffer...
...countryside and worked painting pagoda interiors. Recently, he heard about a magazine article on Tuol Sleng survivors that omitted his name. Bo wanted it known that he is very much alive and that he wants to help prosecute former Khmer Rouge officials, particularly Tuol Sleng's ex-warden, Kang Khek Ieu, "Duch", who has been in a Phnom Penh jail since 1999 but has yet to face charges. "He is too inhumane to describe," says...