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The Caged Life
These articles look into the treatment of the most isolated inamte at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX), Thomas Silverstein.The use of long-term isolation to help manage prisoners is now a growing trend in America, especially during times when terrorism is considered at large.
Tags: 9/11: terror; security; safety; isolate; Bureau of Prisoners; BOP;
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Taking the Cuffs off at Carswell
Fort Worth Weekly reporter Betty Brink has been covering medical and sexual abuse of female inmates at Carswell Federal Medical Center, in Texas, since 1999. As a result of her coverage, and his own investigation, a retired judge, Ross Sears is asking for a Congressional investihgation into the deadly conditions at "the only prison hospital in the country for mentally or chronicallly ill or dying women who have been convicted of a federal crime."
Tags: medical negligence; sexual abuse; Carswell Federal Mediacal Center; medical records; Bureau of Prisons; FOI requests; U.S. Office of Special Counsel; Dr. Roger Guthrie; Ross Sears; retaliation; compassionate release; John Peter Smith Hospital; Tarrant County Medical Examiner; autopsies; prison deaths; women inmates; femaile prisoners; Baylor Regional Transplant Institute; Huguley Memorial Medical Center; brain damage; whistleblower complaints; medical malpractice; sentinel event; rape;
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Collateral Damage
Whether or not the war on drugs and crime is effective law enforcement policy, more than 250,00 more American parents are in prison today than in 1991, the number of children with a mother in prison having nearly doubled in the same period. Seven percent of black children--nearly nine times more than white children--have a parent in prison. In all, 1.5 million kids in the U.S. are children of inmates, and the effects on their lives are profound.
Tags: children of inmates; Federal Bureau of Prisons; law enforcement policy; incarcerated parents
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A Broken Code
This story looks at a top-secret intelligence unit within the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX) prison and examines claims that prisoners in the program exaggerate their gang status and knowledge of criminal activity within ADX to curry favor and win extraordinary privileges. The unit was supposed to benefit authorities by providing them with information from inmate snitches about criminal activities going on both inside and outside the prison.The snitches were to provide information on fellow gang members and corrupt prison staff and detail how they obtained weapons or passed messages inside the prison. But at least one ADX prisoner claims inmate snitches in the program manipulated prison staff and lied about innocent people to win special privileges.
Tags: ADX; U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum; gangs; federal supermax; snitches; Aryan Brotherhood; U.S. Bureau of Prisons; drugs; federal prisons
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A Broken Code
U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum, (ADX) outside Florence, Colorado "has been the focus of a Justice Department probe into staff assaults on inmates and charges of mismanagement revolving around the creation of a special supermax snitch unit, where Aryan Brotherhood 'defectors' have manipulated administrators into providing special privileges and sensitive information about staff.
Tags: Aryan Brotherhood (AB); gangs; criminals; prison; informants; inmates; snitch; Bureau of Prisons; warden
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The spy who's been left in the cold
Jonathan Pollard's spying compromised U.S. intelligence, strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance and landed him in prison for life. Eleven years later, the Post finds, a new question has emerged: Is justice being served?
Tags: Political prisoner Cental Intelligence Agency Defense Department Federal Bureau of Investigation
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George Bush's Herion Connection
Two days before the end of his administration, George Bush signed a paper granting executive clemency to a herion traffickerserving time in a North Carolina prison. The man was deported and forbidden to ever return to the U.S. Rolling Stone examines one of the most puzzling mercies bestowed by a chief executive in the 206 years of presidential clemencies. (Oct. 6, 1994)
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End of the Line
The Westword examines the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, better known as ADX. The prison replaces the federal penitentiary in Marion, IL as the U.S. Bureau of Prisons' highest security penitentiary.
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New Yorker investigates the story of Brett Coleman Kimberlin, a convicted drug dealer who says he sold Dan Quayle marijuana in the late 1960s and early 1970s; he was silenced by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons before the 1988 presidential election in order to prevent him from talking to the press about his relationship with the Republican vice presidential candidate, October 1992.
Tags: NY Singer
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"Prisoner of Conscience"
This report, written by a former inmate of the Women's Correctional Facility in Lexington, Kentucky, illustrates what prison was like for the author, an activist imprisoned for two years for protesting atop a nuclear weapons silo.
Tags: U.S. Bureau of Prisons; Air Force; UNICOR; Federal Correctional Institution