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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Ian M. Cuthbertson Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Ian M. Cuthbertson is a senior fellow and director of the Counterterrorism Project at the World Policy Institute.
Prisons and the Education of Terrorists
lan M. Cuthbertson
Prison reformers have...
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in Undertrial and Error: Tens of Thousands of Indians Languish in Jail, Waiting for their Cases to be Heard
> World Policy Journal
Published: 01 September 2016
SIMPLY CVR Abandoned corridors of the Madras Central Prison pictured in 2009. SIMPLY CVR. / Abandoned corridors of the Madras Central Prison pictured in 2009.
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Baz Dreisinger Singapore has transformed its prison system over the last 20 years to focus on rehabilitation, and recidivism rates have fallen by nearly 50 percent. But Baz Dreisinger finds that the government’s push to employ former prisoners is driven more by an abundance of low-level jobs than...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 56–57.
Published: 01 June 2017
... World Policy Journal visits prison cells in the U.S., Nicaragua, Norway, and Japan. ANATOMY
THE WORLD BEHIND BARS
World Policy Journal visits prison cells in the U.S., Nicaragua, Norway, and Japan.
HOLMAN CORRECTIONAL LA MODELO...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Sen. Leila de Lima Prison walls cannot prevent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest foe from speaking out. From her cell, Sen. Leila de Lima calls the 71-year-old ruler a “geriatric dictator wannabe” involved in “mass serialized murder” and says history will vindicate her. Copyright ©...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Tania Karas An EU-Turkey deal intended to stem the flow of migrants to Europe has turned Greece's islands into de facto open-air prisons. Meanwhile, right-wing sentiment is now growing in regions heralded just a year ago for their selfless care of refugees, reports journalist Tania Karas. Greece...
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in “Sometimes they Burn the Whole Village”: In Apparent Violation of The Leahy Law, U.S. Provided Training To Alleged Human Rights Abusers In Cambodia
> World Policy Journal
Published: 01 March 2016
Another image from Spean Ches shows a gendarme brandishing a stave over subdued villagers, including Ken Neou, center, who said he was beaten for attempting to open his eyes and later spent a year in prison. LICADHO Another image from Spean Ches shows a gendarme brandishing a stave over subdued
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2016
...SIMPLY CVR Abandoned corridors of the Madras Central Prison pictured in 2009. SIMPLY CVR. / Abandoned corridors of the Madras Central Prison pictured in 2009. ...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 85–96.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., a hunting knife in his belt. He spoke in a clipped professional military tone. “Take him to the pool,” the officer responded. A few minutes later, the sounds of blood-curdling screaming were heard. Later he learned from other prisoners it was electric shocks. Ten minutes after the screaming finished...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 122.
Published: 01 June 2017
... are currently behind bars have not been convicted
of a crime. World Policy Journal investigates the uses and abuses of pretrial detention.
PERCENTAGE OF PRISONERS WHO ARE PRETRIAL
HIGHEST RATES...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of prisoners in a cage in the Marka courtroom
these proceedings. One was the trial of as their lawyers sat in the smoke-filled wait
four young men, ranging in age from 19 ing room, laughing and complaining about
to 28, charged with conspiracy to commit how high their union dues were. All...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 12–13.
Published: 01 March 2016
... some startling racial inequalities. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Race incarceration prison ANATOMY
RACE AND INCARCERATION
In countries around the world, minorities are disproportionately represented in incarcerated populations.
GENERAL POPULATION...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
... NGO Human Rights Watch discovered thousands of documents in the former DDS headquarters in N’Djamèna, Chad’s capital. The files contained lists of prisoners and DDS agents, death certificates, intelligence reports, and letters addressed to then-President Habré regarding the detentions, displacements...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 79–86.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that, “the majority of those in prisons in Ben Ali’s time were from Bizerte,” pointing out that this is a testament to Bizerte’s revolutionary character. But rappers, among other artists, have had to form a bulwark against attacks on their newfound freedom of expression, won after the ejection of old dictators...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 82–89.
Published: 01 June 2016
... against him. In a recent letter from prison published by Amnesty International, Shawkan detailed harsh inspections by 10 police officers of his 6-feet-by-6-feet cell, the repeated use of solitary confinement as punishment, and physical abuse of detainees. “Regardless of the justifications they might...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 25–35.
Published: 01 March 2006
... operations. In 1995,
subsequently transferred to a Syrian prison, Pakistani intelligence arrested Ramzi
where he was detained for nearly a year Yousef, instigator of the 1993 World Trade
without charge or legal process. The 35- Center bombing, in Islamabad, and handed
year-old software...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2002
... resolution of the difficult circumstances it confronted
in dealing with four different categories of detainees: (1) prisoners of war captured in
Afghanistan; (2) lawful and unlawful combatants held in Afghanistan or elsewhere outside
the United States; (3) illegal aliens in the United States; and (4...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 34–40.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The magistrates and jurors found the latter report the more reliable when, in a final verdict handed down on August 2012, they sentenced Breivik to the maximum penalty of 21 years in prison and indefinite detention. The Breivik that stared out at Norwegians from every newsstand turned out to be the troubled...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 57–64.
Published: 01 September 2013
... their cases are being litigated. People in jail don’t want trials, they want out. The more defendants get the opportunity to participate in their defense—outside the walls of a cell—the more likely they will go to trial. But sentencing and prisons must also be reformed for the system to work. Even...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
... court imposed a seven-
age control after the fact. To diplomats month prison sentence on Mohammad Dad-
and other observers in Tehran, the football far, a prominent reformist member of parlia
shenanigans rumbled like the first minatory ment who had made a speech criticizing the
tremors along...
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