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As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

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which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island what they wanted ... Women’s House” and installed at the prison in January 1972 — is divided into ...

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A new lawsuit accuses a gynecologist at the California Institution for Women prison of systematically abusing incarcerated patients over seven years. Los Angeles, California - A new lawsuit accuses a ...

Seven women incarcerated in Oklahoma have filed for ... Lisa Moss spent 34 years in prison before being released under the Oklahoma Survivors' Act. She was 24 years old when the offense happened.

Self-harm among women in prison has skyrocketed over the last decade, with rates of self-harm now over 8 times higher than in the men’s estate. The report, produced by the prisons inspectorate, found ...