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Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons

Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015

Filed under: Excessive Force, Political Prisoners (International), Terrorism, CIA

Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matthew Clarke Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matt Clarke The Central Intelligence Agency operated a network of prisons around the globe where suspected terrorists were routinely tortured, and in ...

Australia Imprisons Aboriginals Disproportionately

Article • January 14, 2015

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Statistics/Trends, Prisoners-International

Australia Imprisons Aboriginals Disproportionately by Australia Imprisons Aborigines Disproportionately The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has called for the federal government to increase its “Closing the Gap” goals. Closing the Gap currently aims to reduce the disproportionate overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system by funding legal ...

News in Brief

Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: As previously reported in PLN, former Clay County jail administrator Jeffrey “Scott” Cotney filed a lawsuit alleging defamation, slander, libel and other claims related to accusations that he had used his position at the jail to sexually abuse prisoners. [See: PLN, March ...

ICPS - World Prison Population List, Tenth Edition

Publication • 2013

Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census

ICPS - World Prison Population List, Tenth Edition World Prison Population List (tenth edition) Roy Walmsley Introduction This tenth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 222 independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in the level of imprisonment ...

Business is Booming for Prison Profiteers

Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012

Filed under: Wackenhut/Geo Group, Cornell Corrections, Political Prisoners, Commentary/Reviews, Private Contractors, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Parole, Probation, Prisoners-International, Immigration, Political Prisoners (International), Civil Commitment

Business is Booming for Prison Profiteers by James Kilgore Private corrections company The GEO Group celebrated the holiday season by opening a new 1,500-bed prison in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 12, 2011. The $80 million facility is expected to generate approximately $28 million in annual revenues. Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut ...

Some Australian Prisoners Entitled to Vote

Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008

Filed under: Organizing, Voting

Some Australian Prisoners Entitled to Vote by The High Court of Australia has held that a 2006 law prohibiting prisoners serving a sentence of less than three years from voting was invalid under the Commonwealth Constitution. The special action before The High Court challenged the Commonwealth Electoral Act amendment of ...

Australia Fined $42,500 for Prisoner Work Injury

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Work, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety

Australia Fined $42,500 for Prisoner Work Injury by Australia's Department of Justice was fined $42,500 and ordered to pay $4,870 in costs after pleading guilty to violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act, causing a prisoner severe injury. Maximum security prisoner Justin Adams had three fingers amputated and his right ...

Aborigines Have High Jail Death Rate

Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Prisoners-International

Aborigines Have High Jail Death Rate by Nineteen Australian Aborigines died in police cells and prisons in 1990 and 1991 despite a multimillion dollar inquiry aimed at stopping aboriginal deaths in custody, according to a recent report. The continued over-representation of Aborigines in Australian prisons was a major contributing factor, ...

Convict Heritage Comes Through in Australia

Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992

Filed under: International, Prisoners-International

Convict Heritage Comes Through in Australia by Convict Heritage Comes Through In Australia In an article on the abrasive, hard-edged world of Australian journalism, a Christian Science Monitor writer notes that the continent's "convict heritage...also acts to restrict the press. Once a convict was given `ticket of leave,' allowing a ...

Tim Anderson Free

Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991

Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International

Tim Anderson Free by PLN readers may recall previous stories concerning Tim Anderson. Tim was convicted in 1979 of bombing the Hilton hotel in Sydney, Australia in a failed assassination attempt of the Indian prime minister, killed instead were a policeman and two sanitation workers. In 1986 Tim was released ...

Free Tim Anderson

Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990

Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International

Free Tim Anderson by Tim Anderson is an Australian political activist. In 1978 he and two others were convicted of planting a bomb that killed a cop and two bystanders. They were convicted and spent 7 years in prison. After extensive inquiries the government decided that Tim and the others ...