Category Archives: Prison

The Best Mother’s Day Gift: Activists Join Together to Bail Black Mamas Out for the 3rd Consecutive Year

According to a Black Mamas Bail Out press release, nearly 70 percent of women who are in jail because they can’t afford money bail are mothers of children under 16.

“What’s more, over 80 percent of women who are incarcerated have experienced sexual or physical abuse,” said Marbre Stahly-Butts, executive director of the Law of Black Lives and one of the founders of Black Mama’s Bail Out. “We’re on the frontlines and navigating the bowels of the system as we conduct these bailouts.”

Imagine the outrage if there was a White Mamas Bail Out.

Study reveals high rates of Indigenous Canadians in prison is a real health crisis

Indigenous people are incarcerated at much higher rate than the rest of the population in Canada, that is a fact. But a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) by researchers from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and the University of Winnipeg suggests this phenomenon should be qualified as a real health crisis.

Transgender wings are planned for British jails in bid to stop inmates who have undergone a sex-change serving their sentences in women’s prisons

You’re probably going to want this.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) review comes amid the high-profile case of Karen White, a convicted sex offender who is yet to undergo gender reassignment surgery, who was placed in women’s prison HMP New Hall after telling authorities he identified as a woman.

He subsequently sexually assaulted two female prisoners.

Washington man who raped, took lewd photos of dying woman gets less than 3 years in prison

A Washington man was sentenced Thursday to less than three years in prison after he raped a high school student as she was dying from a drug overdose and texting explicit photos of her to friends.

Men are saying they’re women to get cushier prison sentences…and female prisoners pay the price

If you have been wondering just how far the media will go in accepting the ludicrous premises of the transgender movement, consider this recent headline from Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star: “Transgender woman gets 18-month sentence for sexually assaulting daughter.”

Sweden’s prisons are full according to the country’s Prison and Probation Service

This means, among other things, that more convicts remain in detention cells, which are also overcrowded. It is primarily institutions where the safety class is the highest, with the most dangerous prisoners, and class two, closed institutions with a lower level of safety, which are full.

Full of what?

Parkland school shooter registered to vote while in jail, outraging victim’s father

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz became a registered Florida voter behind bars in Broward County outraging the father of one of his victims.

Liberals make u-turn on transfer of violent criminals to healing lodges after intense controversy

The move comes after public anger that Terri-Lynne McClintic, convicted of murdering eight-year-old Tori Stafford, was moved to a healing lodge in Saskatchewan from a traditional prison.

Controversial McClintic healing lodge transfer could be immediately reassessed under new rules

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale on Wednesday announced new rules for how Correctional Service Canada approves and assesses inmate transfers to healing lodges in light of a report delivered to him by the departmental commissioner that was ordered after news of McClintic’s transfer from prison to a healing lodge kicked off weeks of political outcry.

1.4mn former felons will vote again in Florida

The passing of Florida’s Amendment 4 will restore over a million former felons’ right to vote in future elections. While activists are claiming victory, others are left with serious concerns that the changes are too forgiving.

Crowd rallies on Parliment Hill to demand government intervene in transfer of child-killer Terri-Lynne McClintic to healing lodge

About a hundred people crowded the steps in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill Friday chanting “Send her back” and “Life means life,” in the hopes of convincing the federal government to transfer convicted murderer Terri-Lynne McClintic out of an Indigenous healing lodge and back to a maximum security prison.

Pittsburgh synagogue suspect transferred to prison in another county; officials there ‘not happy’ with decision

Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger, who’s also a member of the county prison board, didn’t hide his disappointment with how the situation was handled.

“I’m not happy about it. I don’t think that it’s our responsibility to be housing him. He’s allegedly committed a heinous act, and I don’t think we should be responsible for him while he’s awaiting his trial,” he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Send him to WV, Whitey Bulger’s slot is open. Weunsll treat him reel good.

Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger killed in prison

Infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed Tuesday, shortly after being transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia, according to a report Tuesday.

Inmate escapes from minimum security healing lodge in Saskatchewan

A news release by Correctional Service Canada states that a prisoner escaped from a minimum security prison in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan Sunday afternoon.

Britain houses convicted terrorist and hate preacher Anjem Choudary next to primary school

Residents of the quiet neighbourhood in north London are understandably angry that this convicted terrorist and hate preacher will be living next to the children’s school. It has been reported that he has NOT been “de-radicalised” or even changed his views whilst in prison.