#prison-conditions

#prison-conditions

Steve Bannon wants to make one thing clear: He did his time in a brutal prison, not in a leisurely camp like that p*ssy [Michael] Cohen. Bannon made that comment, and shared details about his four-month prison term for a forthcoming book from ABC Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl titled Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America; an excerpt from the book, set to be released on Oct. 28, was published by The Atlantic on Tuesday.

If that's not aggravating enough, every morning, when I'm lying down in my bunk here at Eastern Correctional Facility, a max prison located in Napanoch, New York, I'm forced to hear the same prisoner in a neighboring cell ask the same question to different corrections officers taking the list of our three-times-daily choice of activities. The same fist-clenching answer makes me and other prisoners want to melt down.

It truly is a man's world, even in a women's prison. In an environment where nothing is private, even the most basic aspects of personal care become luxuries. For incarcerated women, managing a menstrual cycle is not just a routine part of life it is often a monumental struggle. I have been incarcerated for 15 years. The last three have been spent at Eddie Warrior correctional center, a minimum-security prison in Oklahoma.

He has just left cell 403, in block 13 of the prison where he is being held, somewhere in Kyiv province that will remain anonymous for security reasons. The light is dim in the corridor, but it gains intensity along the labyrinth that leads to the room where he is being held. The smell is strong. A soldier, stripped of his weapon, safely stored at the entrance to the facility, tells him yes, he can shake hands. He smiles.

You will not win. He who messes with the people of Israel, he who will murder our children, he who will murder our women, we will wipe him out.

The prison Lindsay has been transferred to is one of the worst in the world, with human rights groups reporting dire conditions. I worry more than I was ever.

Carlos Daniel Teran, 19, recalled his prison warden at CECOT telling him they would never leave, emphasizing the bleak conditions he faced in El Salvador's mega-prison.

A cockroach-infested jail which illegally detained prisoners for longer than their release date has been put into special measures by a watchdog, exposing critical failures in the prison system.

"The punishments inflicted on detainees from the protests that began on July 11, 2021, in Cuba span a wide range of abuses, according to a Human Rights Watch report."

The recent accounts from mothers of young offenders reveal a disturbing trend of normalised violence, fear, and drug prevalence within HMP Swinfen Hall.