High-security terror trial puts jail safety in spotlight

"High-security terror trial puts jail safety in spotlightNeco Cockburn, The Ottawa CitizenPublished: Friday, June 27, 2008In light of the extraordinary displays of security at the Ottawa courthouse during...

British Columbia: Serial Rapist & Killer escapes

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany British Columbians are asking themselves, what the hell was a repeat rapist and murderer allowed in Minimum Security Prison given his long record of offences? ...

Prison Cigarettes: $1,000.00 a Pack

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanada's anti smoking ban may be the Prison reform needed to rehabilitate criminals who smoke. Die hard Convicts with a die hard cigarette habit may think twice next...

California prisons rocked by problems

Chino Mayor Dennis Yates said the dilapidated prison dormitory where Friday's fight between inmates took place was built to house 60 men but holds nearly 200."It's a ticking bomb down there," he said.The...

You Better Work: Siberian Prison Beauty Contest

A fascinatingly surreal story: female inmates in a Siberian prison engage in an annual beauty contest in order to demonstrate eligibility for parole. The stakes involved make Girlicious and Next Top Model look...

Ottawa vows crackdown on child drug mules in prison

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorParents using infants to carry drugs to smuggle into prisions for the benefit of supplying inmates has inmates calling for Privacy Laws to protect them...

Catering to our Cons

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor As far as I am concerned, Bread and Water should be standard fare, and hard labour. There is no reason to accommodate any prisoner's religious rights when it is...

Canada: The chain gangs are back in Alberta

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDoes this surprise anyone that Alberta takes the lead once again in making crime less attractive for criminals.  WIll we see this in British Columbia, or Vancouver?...

Two Nanaimo prisoners escape from work detail

"Two Nanaimo prisoners escape from work detail The Province Published: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 Two Nanaimo men who escaped from a prison work detail on the BMX track at the city's Beban Park Monday have so far...

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm lays out welcome mat for criminals.

As job loses continue to mount in Michigan due to the state’s seemingly unrecoverable economy and  businesses and residents exit the state in record numbers…  Michigan’s governor appears to of come up with a new economic recovery plan…  Promote Michigan...

Company develops virtual meal technology

"Harvey Bumpus doesn't like to eat alone. But his wife died more than a year ago and his family is scattered across the country. Most nights, he heats up a simple meal of oatmeal or hot dogs and eats alone. "I don't have much choice," said the 82-year-old retired correctional...

Web catalog offers prison-made products (AP)

" HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Internet shopping knows no boundaries, not even for products made behind bars. Maryland Correctional Enterprises, the manufacturing division of the state Division of Correction, has put its 182-page catalog online. Now anyone can see, if not buy, hundreds...

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