Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is on lockdown at least once a month these days due to gang-related incidents. Governor Brian Kemp has launched the state’s first “gang prosecution unit’ and implemented five-year mandatory minimums for all gang related convictions. Prisoners tagged by GDC as gang-affiliated have dim prospects with the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Prison Policy Initiative endorses the Extreme Temperatures Injustice in Prisons Act. Nearly 19,000 people in federal prisons experienced heat-related illnesses between 2022 and 2025. The Act authorizes funding for climate control system installation and upgrades in all federal prisons within five years. It sets clear health and safety standards for extreme heat and cold across work, recreational activities, and housing. It provides free cooling and warming supplies.
A group of California petitioners challenges the legal validity of recently changed parole regulations. They say the new procedures violate statutes and create undue hardship for crime victims' families. They ask the court to stop the Board of Parole Hearings from enforcing the new regulations and declare them invalid and void.
Detainees at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas told two rights groups they were beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from contacting family and lawyers. The report is the latest in a string of investigations documenting abuses at the facility, the largest immigration detention centre in the US. The US Department of Homeland Security said the reports of inhumane conditions are false.
Raheem Fulton is a Jamaican national in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. He is subject to a final order of removal following a burglary conviction. Raheem has end-stage renal disease and requires regular dialysis. He's challenging what he says was inadequate medical-discharge planning before his deportation to Jamaica.
Philippe Bolopion is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he says the Trump administration has "launched an all-out assault on human rights" at home and abroad. He calls the Fort Bliss ICE detention centre a "human rights catastrophe" and warns Washington is ready to "upend the rules-based world order".
Chelsie Marie Anderson and Nicole Burns fled to Mexico to escape the police. Both women had been involved in a vast drug network in South Carolina. They were arrested in March, and while out on bail, Anderson's boyfriend, Dane, helped her flee to Mexico. Anderson and Burns adopted a stray cat, did drugs, watched videos of their life back home, and talked about their children.
Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş was speaking to broadcaster NTV on Thursday on the draft bill on juvenile crime. The bill is one of the most comprehensive ones on children involved in crime. Its highlight is introduction of life sentences for convicts at the age of 15.
Sven Liebich, a right-wing extremist, will serve his sentence in a men's prison after being extradited from the Czech Republic on Wednesday. He was sentenced to one and a half years in prison in 2023 for incitement to hatred and other crimes. In 2025, he had his gender entry changed from male to female and he is now called Marla-Svenja. A decision is pending before the district court in Halle as to whether the change to the gender entry can be reversed.
Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is on lockdown at least once a month these days due to gang-related incidents. Governor Brian Kemp has launched the state’s first “gang prosecution unit’ and implemented five-year mandatory minimums for all gang related convictions. Prisoners tagged by GDC as gang-affiliated have dim prospects with the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Prison Policy Initiative endorses the Extreme Temperatures Injustice in Prisons Act. Nearly 19,000 people in federal prisons experienced heat-related illnesses between 2022 and 2025. The Act authorizes funding for climate control system installation and upgrades in all federal prisons within five years. It sets clear health and safety standards for extreme heat and cold across work, recreational activities, and housing. It provides free cooling and warming supplies.
A group of California petitioners challenges the legal validity of recently changed parole regulations. They say the new procedures violate statutes and create undue hardship for crime victims' families. They ask the court to stop the Board of Parole Hearings from enforcing the new regulations and declare them invalid and void.
Detainees at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas told two rights groups they were beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from contacting family and lawyers. The report is the latest in a string of investigations documenting abuses at the facility, the largest immigration detention centre in the US. The US Department of Homeland Security said the reports of inhumane conditions are false.
Raheem Fulton is a Jamaican national in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. He is subject to a final order of removal following a burglary conviction. Raheem has end-stage renal disease and requires regular dialysis. He's challenging what he says was inadequate medical-discharge planning before his deportation to Jamaica.
Philippe Bolopion is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he says the Trump administration has "launched an all-out assault on human rights" at home and abroad. He calls the Fort Bliss ICE detention centre a "human rights catastrophe" and warns Washington is ready to "upend the rules-based world order".
Chelsie Marie Anderson and Nicole Burns fled to Mexico to escape the police. Both women had been involved in a vast drug network in South Carolina. They were arrested in March, and while out on bail, Anderson's boyfriend, Dane, helped her flee to Mexico. Anderson and Burns adopted a stray cat, did drugs, watched videos of their life back home, and talked about their children.
Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş was speaking to broadcaster NTV on Thursday on the draft bill on juvenile crime. The bill is one of the most comprehensive ones on children involved in crime. Its highlight is introduction of life sentences for convicts at the age of 15.
Sven Liebich, a right-wing extremist, will serve his sentence in a men's prison after being extradited from the Czech Republic on Wednesday. He was sentenced to one and a half years in prison in 2023 for incitement to hatred and other crimes. In 2025, he had his gender entry changed from male to female and he is now called Marla-Svenja. A decision is pending before the district court in Halle as to whether the change to the gender entry can be reversed.