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[Link] A Warden Who Ran a Prison Called the ‘Rape Club’ Is Now on Trial for Sex Abuse

Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com

The sexual abuse trial of a California warden who used to run a federal prison known as a “rape club” kicked off Monday, with emotional testimony from one of the women he stands accused of abusing.

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[Link] A Women's Prison Nurse Sexually Assaulted 12 Incarcerated Women, DOJ Says

Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com

The nurse, Tony Daniel Klein, is facing 21 counts of “depriving the victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by sexually assaulting them.

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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears

Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.

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[Link] Tonga’s drug crisis: Why a tiny Pacific island is struggling with a meth epidemic

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

After more than four decades spent living in New Zealand, Ned Cook knew it was time to return to his home country of Tonga. His country was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic that was ripping families apart and overrunning the country’s hospitals and jails.

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[Link] Thick blue line: Victoria builds the country’s biggest police force

Read: 14/11/2021 www.theage.com.au

Victoria has become one of the most heavily policed states in Australia after a two decade-long law and order rivalry between the ALP and Coalition helped build the country’s largest law enforcement organisation.

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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.

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[Link] Two Dead After 12 Inmates Tried to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Two prison inmates died and ten others were hospitalised in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo after they ingested hand sanitiser to get drunk, prompting a ban on alcohol-based sanitising products in all prisons across the country, according to the Department of Prisons.

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[Link] Warring Gangs Beheaded at Least 6 People in Ecuador's Bloodiest Prison Riot Ever

Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com

The latest conflict began with explosions and gunshots at the Litoral prison in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Tuesday.

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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is

Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com

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[Link] Three charged for allegedly trying to shoot drugs into SA prison by bow and arrow

Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to use a bow and arrow to shoot drugs into the Port Augusta Prison. Late yesterday afternoon, police were called when three people were seen in a car acting suspiciously behind the jail.

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