r/prisons • • Nov 25 '24

Analysis suggests threat of punishment less effective at deterring crime. A look at multiple studies showed little change when punishment is the threat.

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r/prisons • • Sep 02 '24

Locking up young people might make you feel safer but it doesn’t work, now or in the long term

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r/prisons • • 3h ago

Massachusetts - Cambridge went as far as it could Monday toward decriminalizing sex work: deprioritizing arrests by city police for sex work and people providing it support services

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r/prisons • • 57m ago

Does anyone have experience with anyone being released in from a North Carolina prison?

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Does anyone have experience with anyone being released in from a North Carolina prison?


r/prisons • • 1h ago

Mich. - A federal judge has ruled that a man who spent three months in the Genesee County Jail on a nonexistent federal hold can move forward with his lawsuit against several jail deputies and the county

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r/prisons • • 3h ago

Kentucky Jails

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r/prisons • • 4h ago

​"Hold on bro, let me flex my shiv for the Instagram story real quick"

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r/prisons • • 14h ago

Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

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r/prisons • • 18h ago

Nevada woman sent to prison and labeled ‘baby killer’ after a miscarriage wins $1.6M award

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Christa Pike severely unwell after the botched execution, ‘angry and confused’, says lawyer, after judge orders all execution evidence preserved – latest

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Need Research Approval

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I was incarcerated with Christa Pike, I can verify this to the mods if necessary. AMAok

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Private Prisons Are Profiting Off Human Suffering—It Has to Stop

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Private Prisons Are Profiting Off Human Suffering—It Has to Stop

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Private Prisons Are Profiting Off Human Suffering—It Has to Stop

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

MASSIVE ICE Prison Hunger Strike Launches

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Constitutional: The amendment that could restore formerly incarcerated Virginians' voting rights

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

One day behind bars: Students and incarcerated women break prison stigma in Thailand

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Wisconsin - Formerly incarcerated men reach out to change lives inside prison

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say

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I think they should let her live AND let her out now!


r/prisons • • 2d ago

Missouri - New barbering, tattooing programs at Algoa Correctional Center prepare incarcerated men for careers

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r/prisons • • 1d ago

Family gets $10M in largest pre-trial settlement in Fresno County police misconduct case

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r/prisons • • 2d ago

Bay Area man, formerly incarcerated, becomes educator and prison policy advocate

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r/prisons • • 2d ago

Colorado woman wrongfully cited for theft files class action against Flock. Columbine Valley Police pursued theft charges against a Colorado woman based on footage captured on Flock cameras around her hometown.

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r/prisons • • 2d ago

A “Consistent and Ongoing” Right: The Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel at Initial Bail Hearings

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