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A correction officer at the Rikers Island prison complex was seriously injured on Monday after an inmate stabbed him more than a dozen times in the back of the head, the corrections officers' union said in a statement.Earlier today, while working in the protective custody unit at the Anna M. Kross Center, one of our correction officers was brutally stabbed in the back of his head approximately 15 times by an inmate, Benny Boscio, the president of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, said in a statement on Monday night.

People walk outside the U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center operated by GEO Group Inc. in Adelanto, Calif.The company is facing a lawsuit for the alleged use of hazardous chemicals in the facility during the COVID-19 pandemic.Richard Vogel/AP A new lawsuit filed against one of the nation's largest for-profit prison operators, GEO Group Inc., alleges the company improperly used toxic chemicals to clean its detention centers, causing inmates to get sick.

After nearly 50 years behind bars, one of Britain's most notorious prisoners is hoping to win his freedom.Earlier this month Charles Bronson attended a parole board hearing from behind bars, and a decision is expected to be made soon.Full of colourful revelations, here are some of the things we have learned about the long-term prisoner and his time behind bars from the two days of public hearings: Charles Bronson has been behind bars for nearly half a century - Bronson has spent most of the past 48 years behind bars, apart from two brief stints of freedom where he reoffended.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has said he can smell and taste freedom ahead of a public parole hearing next month.The Parole Board is set to decide whether one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners should remain behind bars on Monday, 6 March and Wednesday, 8 March.

I read about Liam in a newspaper report.He had been arrested over the weekend for being an inebriated pedestrian and was sent to court.There he yelled profanities at the judge, including the f-word.He was warned but continued, ever louder, ever more profane.With each outburst the twenty-four-year-old was sentenced an additional two weeks over his originally brief overnight detention.

In this week's comments update readers discussed a monolithic home in Mexico created as a haven for the residents and other top architecture and design stories.Occupying a corner plot, the house appears as a solid block with only a recessed doorway and garage breaking the solid white walls."Pretty intense spaces"Readers were unsure about the house, especially due to its few windows.

T he City of London has turned down a plan to erect a replica of the cell used to hold Russian dissident Alexey Navalny amid fears it could compromise its political neutrality.The art installation, proposed by human rights campaigners Lester Partners, has previously been shown in Berlin and Paris and features a four tonne metal and cement box matching the size of the 2.9-metre-high solitary cell - known as a Shizo or punishment cell - used to hold the Russian politician.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in solitary confinement for months, separated from her husband and young daughter, when her Iranian jailers provided a rare glimmer of joy.In July 2016, after months without books or newspapers, she was granted access to a TV with two channels - one showing Iranian soaps, the other Wimbledon tennis matches.

At my first health checkup in February 2022, after serving nearly 13 years in prison, the doctor told me I had lead poisoning.And not a mild case.I had lead running through my veins at levels that required urgent treatment (83 micrograms per deciliter.)Lead levels higher than 10 micrograms per deciliter can cause constipation, nausea, headaches, nosebleeds and vomiting; I was experiencing all of these symptoms and more.

Days after his Nicaraguan citizenship was revoked, the Rev. Erick Díaz was welcomed with booming applause at St. Mary of Lake Catholic Church.The churchgoers witnessed the introduction of Díaz to his "new home" in Uptown, where he was given refuge by Cardinal Blase Cupich."Even though I am no longer a Nicaraguan by citizenship, I still am Nicaraguan and fully intend to support my new Nicaraguan community here," Díaz said.

"Being alone kind of messes me up.I don't got nobody to talk to.I need interaction," a young person incarcerated at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) told investigators looking into the conditions at the facility
That account is included in a report from a blue ribbon committee convened by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans in April 2021 is nothing short of horrific.

It's a magical time of year on social media, all cherry blossom and wisteria.My Instagram account 50% animals and 50% adverts for bad trousers is a serotonin-saturated riot of frolicking baby goats, sproinging lambs and fluffy chicks.Scrolling as I neck antihistamines, I'm high on spring and becoming inter-species broody.

The former sheriff of a suburban Atlanta county was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison on civil rights charges related to his treatment of incarcerated people, according to the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.Victor Hill, previously the Clayton County sheriff, was found guilty in October 2022 on six counts related to incidents in which prosecutors said he ordered detainees to be strapped into a restraint chair and left there for hours.

Navalny, a film that followed the imprisoned Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny as he investigated his own near-fatal poisoning in 2020, won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday, with Mr. Navalny's wife and daughter appearing onstage to deliver a message of defiance.Accepting the award, the Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher spoke out against President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and said he was there because Aleksei Navalny right now is languishing in a gulag six and a half hours outside of Moscow, and I want to remind the world that he is there.

There are now so many jailed opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin and his full-scale invasion of Ukraine that a new tradition has emerged in Russia: New Year's greetings from political prisoners.Aleksei A. Navalny, the prominent opposition leader who has been behind bars since early 2021, said that he had received so many seasonal decorations in letters from supporters that he hung them up in his cell at his prison outside Moscow.

An extraordinary win for Toronto writer-director Sarah Polley was one of many pivotal points during a victorious night for Team Canada at the Oscars, with additional key wins for Montreal prosthetics designer Adrien Morot and Toronto documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher.Polley, who directed an adaptation of Manitoba author Miriam Toews's novel Women Talking, won for best adapted screenplay.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said in a social media post published Wednesday that prison authorities have placed him in a one-person cell for six months, a move his lawyer described as part of authorities' efforts to damage Navalny's health.Navalny, 46, said on Instagram that he had been denied the opportunity to visit with his family for the past eight months.

The UK-based family of an Iranian teenager sentenced to death has appealed to ministers to help save his life.MPs heard Mehdi Mohammadi Fard has been tortured, beaten and kept in solitary confinement in a rat-infested cell after taking part in protests against the Iranian regime.He was tried in court without legal representation and sentenced to death for corruption on earth and war against God, the House of Commons was told.

The UK has sanctioned Iran's prosecutor general after the barbaric regime executed a dual British-Iranian national on spy charges.Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the move underlines our disgust at the decision to put Alireza Akbari to death.Prosecutor general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri is at the heart of Iran's use of the death penalty, the Cabinet minister added.

Britain has imposed sanctions on the Iranian prosecutor general after the country's execution of the British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, while Iran has summoned the UK ambassador.Akbar was executed on Saturday after Iranian authorities claimed he was an MI6 spy, charges his family and the Foreign Office deny.

Human rights campaigners have condemned Iran for having pitifully little respect for the right to life after it executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari on spy charges.The comments from Amnesty International UK came after Iranian state media on Saturday announced that Mr Akbari, a former Tehran defence official who was seen by the Islamic Republic as a reforming moderate, had been hanged.

PoliticsRussian Federation 01/13/2023January 13, 2023 Germany is calling on Russian authorities to provide "urgent" medical care to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.The dissident has said he is being denied access to basic medical treatment, despite being sick.The German government on Friday said Russian authorities should provide "urgent medical assistance" to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

A British-Iranian man sentenced to death for allegedly spying against Iran, gave information to MI6 agents on Iran's nuclear programme, according to a heavily-edited confession aired on Iranian state television.During the video, Alireza Akbari is also asked about the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was shot dead in 2020.

The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, has urged the Iranian government not to press ahead with plans to execute a British-Iranian dual national found guilty of spying for MI6.Alireza Akbari, a former Iranian deputy defence minister who has lived in the UK for more than a decade, could be executed within days after he was found guilty by the revolutionary courts of being a senior spy for M16.

The UK has condemned the planned execution of a British-Iranian dual national by Iran.Foreign Secretary James Cleverly appealed to Iranian authorities not to go ahead with the execution of Alireza Akbari, a former senior defence official reportedly charged with spying for British intelligence.Mr Cleverly tweeted: Iran must halt the execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari and immediately release him.

Iran's judiciary announced on Wednesday that a former deputy defense minister had been convicted and sentenced to death on charges of spying for Britain, where he had lived for a decade as a dual national.Alireza Akbari, who had served the Islamic Republic in senior roles until his departure to Britain, was arrested in 2019 in Iran on allegations of being a super spy for MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service, and passing it classified national security information, according to a statement released Wednesday by Iran's intelligence ministry.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has recalled watching Sir Andy Murray win Wimbledon from solitary confinement in an Iranian prison, during an emotional meeting with the British tennis star.The 44-year-old British-Iranian dual national said Sir Andy offered a connection to her life outside prison and an escape from her six-year detention.

While travelling through the US in 1994-5, Roy Montgomery recorded two albums, Scenes from the South Island and Temple IV, which would set the tone for three decades of maverick work by the quietly avuncular New Zealand guitarist.My partner Jo had died in 1992, and I felt I owed it to her to travel and deal with what had happened, he says, via Zoom from his home in Christchurch.

Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader jailed after surviving an assassination attempt said on Thursday that he has been transferred permanently to a solitary confinement cell that would limit his contact with other prisoners and the outside world.They're doing it to keep me quiet, Mr. Navalny said in posts on his verified Twitter account, adding that staying in the small, cramped cell was typically limited to 15 days as a punishment.

"Whatever inspiration is," the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her superb Nobel Prize acceptance speech, "it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'"And yet, with our reflex for teleological thinking - that childish grab at "I know!" - we habitually cut ourselves off from the mystery that houses the most creative, and therefore the most vulnerable and alive, part of our own souls, forgetting what Carl Sagan's ghost so poetically reminds us: that "the universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it."

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson will face a public Parole Board hearing next year when he makes his latest bid for freedom.The Parole Board said it granted an application made by lawyers for Bronson  one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners  to request his latest case review is heard in public.Dubbed one of Britain's most violent offenders, Bronson  who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 after the artist Salvador Dali  has been in prison for much of the last 50 years, often spending time in solitary confinement or specialist units.

The next Parole Board hearing for Charles Bronson, one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners, will take place in public.The Parole Board granted an application for the case of the notorious prisoner  now known as Charles Salvador  to be heard in public.A date is yet to be set.Charles Bronson became the first prisoner to request a public parole board hearing In a document setting out the decision to hold the hearing in public, Parole Board chairwoman Caroline Corby said: I have concluded that a public hearing is in the interests of justice in the case of Mr Salvador.

A member of the defense team of the alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik has called on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to intervene in support of his client.The Russian national may be sentenced to over 50 years in prison for his role in the infamous cryptocurrency exchange.Prisoner Swap for Americans in Russian Custody Is Vinnik's Only Chance to Return Home, Lawyer Says Frederic Belot, the French lawyer who has been representing Russian crypto entrepreneur and alleged money launderer Alexander Vinnik in courts for years, has written to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with a request to help for his client's return to the homeland.

She described it as a symbol of women getting more power about their body that resonates throughout the world.Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on to speak about cutting her hair as a gesture of solidarity with the women protesting in Iran.Speaking about the women protesting in Iran, she said: There is a new wave of school girls rising up, standing up for their rights to take off their scarf to protest and this is a new generational shift.