Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison received the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy. The book highlights the work of Impact Justice's programs to provide incarcerated people with healthy, nutritious food as a gateway to successful reentry into society. Food served in prisons in the United States is often moldy, spoiled and sometimes contains rats or cockroaches.
The new Westville State Prison is expected to open in early 2027. The campus will feature steel modular cells, state-of-the-art security electronics and an efficient central utility plant. The new facility is designed to ease overcrowding and provide educational, vocational, and life skills needed to reduce recidivism.
Paul Skalnik was a con artist who passed bad checks and conned people out of their savings. Pamela Colloff used his story to expose a flaw in the criminal justice system in her debut book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast, out from Knopf this July. Colloff covered some of the most consequential wrongful-conviction cases in Texas.
Weekly digital edition of SPIEGEL includes e-paper (PDF), digital archive and S+ newsletter. Free access to all S+ articles on SPIEGel.de and in the app (e-paper, digital archive, and newsletter). For more information, visit the website.
There is an investigation against ten defendants, including eight correctional officers from the Rheinbach JVA. They are suspected of corruption or bribery, illegal trafficking in narcotics and smuggling prohibited items into prison. There are searches in the prison and apartments in Cologne, Euskirchen, Rheinsbach and Siegburg, and in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the former mayor of Istanbul, is on trial in Silivri prison complex. He is accused of 142 offences, including leading a criminal organisation, accepting bribes, unlawfully obtaining personal data, aiding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party, racketeering, interfering with public tenders and numerous other financial crimes. The case is expected to last until early next year. It is Europe’s largest prison complex, 83 km away from Istanbul.
Crowd control weapons used by law enforcement during anti-immigration protests in the US have caused hundreds of injuries. A new report documented 412 verified incidents of the misuse of these weapons from June 2025 through May 2026. The report was created by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alice Sebold was raped on May 8, 1981. Anthony Broadwater was convicted of the crime and spent 16 years in prison. He was released in 1998. ProPublica reporter Joaquin Sapien reinvestigated the case 40 years later. He found that the police, prosecutors and judges were negligent in their investigations. Syracuse was experiencing a rash of sexual assaults in the spring of 1981.
Draft bill proposed by ruling AK Party calls for life imprisonment for grave offenses committed by suspects between the ages of 15 and 18. Leyla Şahin Usta delivered it to the presidency of the Turkish Parliament for discussion and voting at the General Assembly. She stressed that the bill aims to strengthen the protection of children, reinforce the juvenile justice system and improve public safety.
Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison received the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy. The book highlights the work of Impact Justice's programs to provide incarcerated people with healthy, nutritious food as a gateway to successful reentry into society. Food served in prisons in the United States is often moldy, spoiled and sometimes contains rats or cockroaches.
The new Westville State Prison is expected to open in early 2027. The campus will feature steel modular cells, state-of-the-art security electronics and an efficient central utility plant. The new facility is designed to ease overcrowding and provide educational, vocational, and life skills needed to reduce recidivism.
Paul Skalnik was a con artist who passed bad checks and conned people out of their savings. Pamela Colloff used his story to expose a flaw in the criminal justice system in her debut book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast, out from Knopf this July. Colloff covered some of the most consequential wrongful-conviction cases in Texas.
Weekly digital edition of SPIEGEL includes e-paper (PDF), digital archive and S+ newsletter. Free access to all S+ articles on SPIEGel.de and in the app (e-paper, digital archive, and newsletter). For more information, visit the website.
There is an investigation against ten defendants, including eight correctional officers from the Rheinbach JVA. They are suspected of corruption or bribery, illegal trafficking in narcotics and smuggling prohibited items into prison. There are searches in the prison and apartments in Cologne, Euskirchen, Rheinsbach and Siegburg, and in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the former mayor of Istanbul, is on trial in Silivri prison complex. He is accused of 142 offences, including leading a criminal organisation, accepting bribes, unlawfully obtaining personal data, aiding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party, racketeering, interfering with public tenders and numerous other financial crimes. The case is expected to last until early next year. It is Europe’s largest prison complex, 83 km away from Istanbul.
Crowd control weapons used by law enforcement during anti-immigration protests in the US have caused hundreds of injuries. A new report documented 412 verified incidents of the misuse of these weapons from June 2025 through May 2026. The report was created by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alice Sebold was raped on May 8, 1981. Anthony Broadwater was convicted of the crime and spent 16 years in prison. He was released in 1998. ProPublica reporter Joaquin Sapien reinvestigated the case 40 years later. He found that the police, prosecutors and judges were negligent in their investigations. Syracuse was experiencing a rash of sexual assaults in the spring of 1981.
Draft bill proposed by ruling AK Party calls for life imprisonment for grave offenses committed by suspects between the ages of 15 and 18. Leyla Şahin Usta delivered it to the presidency of the Turkish Parliament for discussion and voting at the General Assembly. She stressed that the bill aims to strengthen the protection of children, reinforce the juvenile justice system and improve public safety.