Bengaluru Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike After Crackdown On Phones, Cigarettes

A major crackdown on illegal activities inside Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central Jail triggered a three-day hunger strike by inmates, days after a series of videos showing prisoners using mobile ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul announces another NY prison closure as facilities grapple with dire staffing crisis

Gov. Kathy Hochul will announce the closure of another state prison on Tuesday as her administration struggles to grapple with an ongoing staffing crisis, The Post has learned. Hochul’s administration ...
Middle East Eye

Palestine Action prisoner hospitalised due to hunger strike

Kamran Ahmed is one of six prisoners observing a rolling hunger strike over their detention conditions and the proscription ...
Adirondack Explorer

North Country prison closure follows ongoing correction officer shortage

New York will close a North Country prison amid persistent staffing shortages following the termination of thousands of ...

New York will close a prison in the North Country as staffing shortage persists

ALBANY — New York will close a prison near the Canadian border and downsize another facility in western New York as staffing shortages continue to disrupt the state’s beleaguered correctional system.
Fox 5 San Diego

Amnesty says US strike on a Yemen prison that killed dozens of African migrants may be a war crime

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An American airstrike in April on a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that killed over 60 detained African migrants should be investigated as a possible war crime, ...