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...Among the downsides is that many of those with severe mental illness now go in and out of some form of penitentiary, often county jails, which only exacerbates their mental distresses and criminalises them...
...He had a distinctive, eccentric style: a red-brick Gothic sitting somewhere between cathedral, penitentiary, armoury and warehouse....
...“It was difficult, but it was facilitated by a united cabinet, and a sense that the country was on the verge of dreadful consequences,” finance minister Phillips recalls....
...(Atlantic) How the prison economy works Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, covers a site larger than Manhattan making it the largest prison in the US....
...It was during his sentence for robbery at North Florida’s Raiford State Penitentiary, between 1961 and 1964, that he began to draw and paint....
...On a hot afternoon last September, Rickey Hawthorne walked out of the gates of the United States’ largest maximum-security prison for the last time....
...Its host is the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the state’s only maximum-security prison, better known as Angola....
...Historically the family has had strong links to the church, lending money and supplying the Papal States with wine....
...Some of them are still in Leavenworth [military prison] serving sentences for considerably less than what she did.”...
...(Guardian) Lessons from death row As superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary, Semon Frank Thompson planned and carried out that state’s only two executions in the last half century....
...He died at a penitentiary in Wuhan in central Hubei province, the Tencent news website reported, quoting a former company executive. Chinese authorities could not be reached for comment on the story....
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...The Vatican has already said that he will address the crisis in America’s penitentiary system when he travels to a prison on the outskirts of Philadelphia this weekend....
...The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as “Angola”, is home to 6,300 prisoners; 4,500 are in for life and 83 are on death row....
...Every year more than 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons....
...At any one time its federal penitentiaries and state jails contain more than 2m people (a tenfold increase on 1970)....
...The gunman, Major Nidal Hasan, was sentenced to death in 2013 and is being held on death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas....
...According to one local journalist, that legacy has left the city with the mentality of “a nation-state rather than a city”....
...Zach has just spent a week at Angola prison, the notorious maximum security state penitentiary in Louisiana, where almost 80 per cent of the inmates are black (the state percentage is 30 per cent)....
...Kansas may be 7,000 miles from Kabul but the US Army Combined Arms Center in nearby Fort Leavenworth is the intellectual home of national defence....
...A 38-year-old father of two from Washington state, Sgt Bales has served three tours of duty in Iraq and arrived in Afghanistan in December....
...-73f2-11e1-bcec-00144feab49a.html#axzz1pj3ktTFO Medvedev pushes to privatize lenders Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government and central bank to devise a plan to cut their holdings in state-owned...
...Charges will be released this afternoon Washington time after they are presented to Bales and his attorney at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to one of the officials....
...I first went to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 1980, visiting those on death row. Rideau was inmate-editor of the Angolite, the prison magazine....
...But on Wednesday the British peer is expected to take a big step in that direction following a scheduled bail bond hearing that will determine the conditions of his release from a Florida penitentiary pending...
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