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10/ 23/ 24, 1: 49 PM The New York Timeshttps:// nytimes. pressreader. com/ the- new- york- times/ 20241023 37/ 50 10/ 23/ 24, 1: 49 PM The New York Times https:// nytimes. pressreader. com/ the- new- york- times/ 20241023 41/ 50 [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on Peter Nygard's sentencing to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women, by Canadian Court, detailing the severe impact on his victims' lives, the challenges of his legal proceedings, and his ongoing trials for related crimes in other jurisdictions.

The article reports on the alleged activities of Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny in prison before his announced death in February 2024. Also cited are Navalny's private letters with friends and aides that reveal his ambition, resolve and curiosity as a leader, his opposition to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and Navalny's efforts to become the unifying symbol of resistance against Putin.

The article focuses on a tragic incident in horse racing in 1962, where jockey Tony DeSpirito narrowly escaped injury as his mount, Royal Berth, suffered a fatal heart attack just before the finish line at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, highlighting the enduring issue of fatalities in the sport.

The article discusses that Iran has commenced the trial of European Union official Johan Floderus from Sweden, accused of spying for Israel, including a charge potentially carrying the death penalty, prompting international calls for his release in Iran's notorious Evin prison.

The article focuses on the prevalence of arbitrary arrest and torture at Syria's prisons as President Bashar al-Assad closes in on victory. Topics covered include the war waged by the Syrian government against civilians suspected of toppling the government, the dire prison conditions and abuse suffered by prisoners, and pieces of evidence of the existence of systematic abuse at torture prisons.

The article reports on Imran Khan, former prime minister of Pakistan, appealing prison sentence in a corruption case and mentions that the appeal has initiated legal battle that holds high stakes of Khan's political future and political climate of Pakistan.

The article focuses on the stance of Bruce Reilly, deputy director of VOTE, a group that acts as a proponent of the formerly incarcerated in the U.S., who was paroled after serving time for a 1992 murder, on whether or not to give murderers second chances. Background information on the murder case involving Reilly is presented. His life in prison, as well as after his parole, is also described. The shift in the consensus for bringing formerly incarcerated people back into society's mainstream is discussed.

The article reports on a labor strike by Alabama inmate workers to protest poor prison conditions across the state, where facilities are overcrowded, under staffed and notoriously dangerous.

The article focuses on December in 2017 when Akayed Ullah left his Rrooklyn apartment with a homemade pipe bomb packed with metal screws strapped to his chest and has headed into the18th Avenue subway station, boarded an F train and took it to Jay Street MetroTech.

The article reports that Stephan Balliet, white supremacist who livestreamed efforts to blast into synagogue in Germany, has been sentenced on life in prison and mentions that the court had followed prosecutor's arguement that Balliet should receive sentence possible for carrying anti-Semitism.

The article discusses the day-to-day life and struggles of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, transgendered military prison inmate Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst formerly known as Bradley Manning, who disclosed secret diplomatic and military files to the organization WikiLeaks in 2010. According to the article, Manning requested that U.S. president Barack Obama to commute her sentence prior to his leaving office in January 2017.

The article offers information on the release of Robert Clarence Potts after 20 years, who was sentenced life in prison in 1999, because of his unwavering dedication to improve himself.

The article offers information on the James Fields Jr., the white supremacist sentenced to life in federal prison in the murder of a woman by the Dodge Challenger into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The article reports on the electricity outage that happened at the end of January 2019 at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, and how it overshadows the neglect of residents of the New York City Housing Authority.

The author analyzes the strengths and shortcomings of the proposed U.S. First Step Act which has been designed to help former prisoners' re-entry into the general population and to also alleviate the problem of overpopulated prisons.

The article discusses the U.S. Association of State Correctional Administrators' perspective on limiting the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, including in regard to prison guard's perspectives that solitary confinement helps maintain prison safety. An overview of U.S. state policies on solitary confinement is provided.

The article discusses the art of prisoner Richard W. Matt, a convicted murderer who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility, noting that Matt often bartered his paintings of celebrities and inmates' relatives for preferential treatment. Topics addressed include prisoners' use of art to escape from the realities of prison life, as well as the reflections of prison art teachers and of John Mulligan, a former prisoner who served time with Matt.

The article discusses U.S. federal prosecutors' plans to file a lawsuit against New York City's Rikers Island Prison over civil rights violations in the handling of inmates. Topics addressed include a report from the office of U.S. attorney Preet Bharara documenting abuses at Rikers, as well as prosecutors frustration with and criticism of the pace of reform efforts at Rikers.

The article reports that Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a Mexican drug lord imprisoned at federal jail 10 South in Manhattan, New York City, complained about his confinement conditions and advocated prison reform, and includes information on conditions of other inmates.

The article discusses increases in correctional officers' violence against inmates at New York City's Rikers Island Prison during the tenure of former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Topics addressed include the impact of cuts of correctional officer positions during Bloomberg's tenure, allegations that Bloomberg was unwilling to spend political or financial capital on improving conditions at Rikers, and the tenure of New York City correction commissioner Dora B. Schriro.

The article discusses problems regarding prison management company the Management and Training Corporation (M.T.C.)'s administration of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a prison that serves as the main facility for inmates with mental illness in Mississippi, as of June 7, 2014. Topics addressed include a lack of medical treatment of prisoners at the facility, the conditions in the prison's solitary confinement units, and lawsuits against the prison.

The article discusses a trend of prison inmates requesting kosher prison meals because of a belief in the improved quality of the meals relative to standard prison meals as of January 20, 2014. Topics addressed include concerns about increasing food costs in prisons in Florida, inmate lawsuits over the right to have access to Kosher meals, and efforts to ascertain whether an inmate is truly Jewish.

The article discusses Yale University researcher's discovery and authentication of Austin Reed's 19th century manuscript "The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the Inmate of a Gloomy Prison: With the Mysteries and Miseries of the New York House of Reffuge and Auburn Prison Unmasked" as the first prison memoir written by an African American man. Topics addressed include Reed's accounts of punishments and living conditions in prison, and Reed's writing style.

The article reports that 37-year-old Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who was convicted of murdering people in the 2011 terrorism attack in Norway has complaint a violation of his rights on his confinement in prison located in Norway.

The article discusses situations in which militant Islamic prisoners in Middle Eastern countries, who have been jailed for inciting terrorism, have gained special concessions from their jailers through hunger strikes and protests. An example is cited of a Moroccan jihadist leader, Ahmed Rafiki, whose conditions of incarceration are relatively pleasant, as the authorities fear inciting civil unrest by treating him harshly.

The article reports that Sunni Arab leaders in Iraq are denouncing the country's Shiite-led government, saying it supported the torture of Sunni detainees there. According to the author, Sunni leaders are calling for an international inquiry. The article reviews how the discovery of a secret prison by the American military has galvanized Sunni Arab anger and widened Iraq's sectarian divide.

The author comments on his prison life and education at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, mentioning the use of televisions (TVs) for prisoners in the facility and his experience with co-prisoner Roberto Rivera.

The article reports on the concerns over the future of the Helmand Central Prison in Afhanistan if assistance from Western forces stops. The author mentions that unlike other prison facilities in the country, Helmand Central is a pristine facility. She states that the facility has been supported financially by British troops, which supplies them with equipment.

The article reports on the social conditions of prisons in Portugal, wherein despite overcrowding and shortage of necessities, some prisoners want to stay. Júlio Rebelo, president of the guard's unions, says that many prisoners do not apply for prison leave because the meals are paid inside and that families do not have the means to welcome prisoners back at home. Petty crime in the country is one factor that contributes to the prison overcrowding.

The article reports on the conditions of prisons in Portugal. President of guards' union Júlio Rebelo says that government budget cuts cause overcrowding of the facility and prisoners were in austerity situation. It mentions that Rebelo accused the government of manipulating statistics to play down the overcrowding problem of the facility.

The article discusses the lifestyle in prison of Anders Behring Breivik, a convicted murderer in Norway. It mentions the convict's complains through a letter published by the Verdens Gang newspaper, in the detention facilities of Norway despite having the accommodations such as a cell suite with a television and exercise equipments. The lawyer of Mr. Breivik Tord Jordet of Agence France-Presse added that the treatment for his client is not humane.

The article reports on the harsh conditions faced by punk band Pussy Riot members in the prison camp in Mordovia, Russia. Band member Maria Alyokhina cites in an interview that she and bandmates Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were sentenced for two years for an anti-Putin protest. Alyokhina claims that there is not hot water and medicine in the prison but President Vladimir Putin states that the women deserved what they got because they threatened Russia's moral foundations.

WASHINGTON -- In Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday, most of the justices seemed convinced that conditions in California's prisons are so awful that they violate the Constitution. But it was not clear that a majority was ready to endorse an order by a special three-judge federal court there requiring state officials to reduce the prison population by as many as 45,000 inmates over two years, to address what it called longstanding constitutional violations in medical and mental health treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: Re ''The Recession Behind Bars,'' by Kenneth E. Hartman (Op-Ed, Sept. 6): [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVERY weekday morning the prison's not on lockdown, the yard holds its collective breath waiting for the pale-orange package cart to appear through multiple layers of chain-link and razor-wire fences. For most prisoners, this lumbering vessel is their only tangible, physical connection back to the free world. The last couple of years the cart has arrived less often and with visibly lighter loads. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

They say prison life can be lonely, but not for Raul Isaias Baduel, Venezuela's former army chief and once one of President Hugo Chavez's confidants, who was detained last month. Among his cellmates in the Ramo Verde military prison here are a former admiral, Carlos Millan, and Wilfredo Barroso, a onetime general arrested along with Mr. Millan on charges of conspiring to oust Mr. Chavez. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Faced with chronically packed prisons and a federal mandate to improve medical and living conditions, a three-judge panel is meeting here to decide whether the overcrowding results in unconstitutional treatment of California's more than 150,000 inmates. If so, the judges could order the state to release tens of thousands of prisoners. ''We have a motion today to exercise a very serious order which interferes in a profound way with the state's right to run its own affairs,'' one of the judges on the panel, Lawrence Karlton of Federal District Court, said in a hearing last week. ''And on the other hand, we have a serious failure of the state to provide adequate care.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., who has built a national reputation with his get-tough tactics, and county health officials have violated the Constitution by depriving jail inmates of adequate medical screening and care, feeding them unhealthy food and housing them in unsanitary conditions, a federal judge has ruled. Sheriff Arpaio, whose jurisdiction over the Phoenix metropolitan area includes one of the country's largest jail systems, must make a number of changes under an order issued Wednesday by Judge Neil V. Wake of Federal District Court in Phoenix. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

People awaiting trial here at the Cook County Jail, one of the nation's largest local jails, have endured vastly inadequate medical care, beatings at the hands of jail workers and dilapidated, dangerous building conditions often left unrepaired for months, federal authorities said on Thursday. Grim images peppered 98 pages of federal findings from a sweeping 17-month investigation about the jail, a West Side complex of buildings, the oldest of which once housed Al Capone, that is now temporary home to about 9,800 men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the campaigning of U.S. Senator John McCain, whose agenda is to tackle the torture of inmates of jails. His stance on the topic comes from his experience as a prisoner of war. The Democrats largely supported McCain, while the Republicans opposed him saying that the U.S. could apply any measure necessary.

The article discusses the approval of the federal magistrate to improve conditions of the 1000 inmates in the super-maximum-security unit of the Mississippi prison. The approval came after a series of killings and violence amongst the inmates, and over crowding. Further the article provides information on the various steps taken by the officials to improve the present situation.

The article presents information related to the prison system of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, has declared a state of emergency in the prison system, a step reserved for areas hit by natural disasters. The problems of the prison system include overcrowding, inmate violence, recidivism, parole absconders and the prison medical system.

Discusses the problems with the prison system in the United States. Evidence of high rates of prisoners returning to prison; Efforts in the U.S. to build more prisons and reduce the crime rate; How many states have sharply curtailed education, job training and other rehabilitation programs inside prisons; Negative aspects of abolishing early release programs; Outlook for the large numbers of released inmates.

Reports that because of the increase in drugs seizures in New York State prison system the officials are thinking of expanding the drug search in prison. Comments from Michael F. Nozzolio, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction.