prison
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When she finally saw the twins again, in Isfahan’s female prison, their mother could hardly recognize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
President Trump last October pardoned Zhao, who served four months in prison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A teenager who piloted a dinghy carrying a then-record 165 migrants across the English Channel to the UK has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It is currently led by David Venturella, a former private prison executive, after Todd Lyon announced his departure from the top job in April.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
How Nollie understood the gray color-hunger of prison!
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Sophie Bishener, leaseholder and campaigner with the End our Cladding Scandal group, said that flats with unsafe cladding left unremediated were like "prisons", and this is having a "devastating" impact on people's lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
As the regime fell 12 years later, tens of thousands of people emerged from the administration's prisons.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Inside prisons, the environment can work in the scammer’s favor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
A South Carolina investigator has secured warrants for cybercrimes against more than two dozen convicts across at least eight Georgia prisons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“And prisons have power-thirsty, corrupt guards, just like schools have teachers.”
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
