Some prisons ‘on the brink’ as overcrowding increases, MSPs told Some Scottish prisons are “on the brink” and at “red status” due to overcrowding, MSPs have heard.Addressing the Public Audit Committee on Thursday, Scottish Prison Service chief executive Teresa ... 05/2/2024 - 7:40 am | View Link
Texas Prisons Are Keeping Inmates at Sweltering Temperatures Monday’s amended complaint, which expands the lawsuit to apply to inmates beyond Tiede, asks the U.S. District Court to declare the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s prison policy ... 05/2/2024 - 6:06 am | View Link
Brittney Griner Details Just How Bad Russian Prisons Really Are ABC NewsWNBA star Brittney Griner on Wednesday recounted her time in a Russian prison for most of 2022, describing cold, moldy conditions and having to use toothpaste that had expired around the time ... 05/1/2024 - 2:03 pm | View Link
Texas needs to air-condition prisons before a federal court turns up the heat again | Opinion It might be happening again, over an entirely avoidable problem: the lack of air conditioning in Texas’ prisons. Several nonprofit groups recently joined a lawsuit against the state over the issue, ... 04/29/2024 - 6:28 pm | View Link
‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to ... 04/29/2024 - 9:47 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.