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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Many of us now rely on smartphone videos and video chats to share special moments - a baby's first steps, a graduation - with family and friends who are far away. People in prison usually can't take part in that because of rules
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fifty years ago, a documentary came out that shook up the media. Titicut Follies depicted life in a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. It launched filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's Oscar-winning career. Now, it's back as
Private Prisons Can Reduce Incarceration Costs, But Worry Some 私营监狱减少监禁成本引发担忧 The southern U.S. state of Louisiana has the world's highest incarceration rate. With about one in 90 adults in the prison system, the state is
Leading the news this morning. Three people have died in an overnight house fire in Melbourne's southeast. It's believed they are a woman and two children. Neighbors say they tried to break into the house at Clayton South, but shutters prevented them
1. Remains found in the Iraqi city Karbala are thought to be from a mass grave from 1991 when Saddam Hussein's regime put down a Shiite uprising in the South. 2. Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disba
There are reports about at least 31 deaths in Ukraines southern port city of Odessa today. A regional police department issued the statement saying the death as a result of fire that broke out at their tread union building in the center of the city.
The leading Republican presidential candidates will be back on the same stage for a second debate this time in Simi Valley, California. Therell be one addition former CEO Carly Fiorina, the only woman seeking the GOP nomination. But as NPRs Mara Lias
Prison Theater Prepares Inmates for Life on Outside And if youre going to stage Romeo and Juliet in a prison, your first challenge is casting. Here, as far as personality traits, the feminine is not really embraced, says Hal Cobb, a founding member o
THIS IS AMERICA - Second Chances for Prisoners, Horses and the Unemployed; Dogs Help Children Learn to Read CAROLYN PRESUTTI: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Carloyn Presutti. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our sh
By Jessica Berman Washington 23 July 2006 Last week, a U.S. doctor and two nurses were charged with murdering four seriously ill patients who were trapped with hundreds of others in a flood-damaged, sweltering New Orleans hospital after hurricane Ka
Inmates at Tangerang prison in Jakarta leave their cells to participate in conflict resolution training After learning that a new terrorist group had sprung up in the Indonesian prison system earlier this year, officials put in place a new program ai
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia's richest man, has been transferred from a Siberian prison to Moscow to face trial for alleged embezzlement and money laundering. Khodorkovsky is already serving an eight-year sentence on charges of fraud and ta
By Greg Flakus Huntsville, Texas 21 October 2009 The U.S. state with the busiest death chamber and one of the largest prison populations is Texas, where public opinion polls show the death penalty is supported by more than 70 percent of the populati
Law Classes Educate Inmates at Kenya's Langata Women's Prison 肯尼亚兰加塔女子监狱犯人学习法律 NAIROBI At a women's prison in Nairobi, Kenyan inmates are taking the law into their own hands. Law classes have helped inmates launch thei
Jenny Scheinman Showcases Vocal Compositions on 'The Littlest Prisoner' 詹妮沙因曼展示声乐作品小小囚犯 Jenny Scheinman first gained national attention in 2003 as a jazz performer, when she was voted the #1 Rising Star violinist for thr
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A court has convicted the former sheriff of Los Angeles County. The sheriff, it is said, blocked an investigation into mistreatment of jail inmates, a crime for which the penalty can be jail. Here's Annie Gilbertson of KPCC. ANNI
DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than a hundred female inmates who were given sentences in federal prison faced a different fate. They were instead held for years in two windowless rooms in a detention center in New York City, and the conditions there have b
By Phil Mercer Sydney 29 December 2007 The only Guantanamo Bay inmate convicted of terrorism offenses,Australian David Hicks, has been released from prison in Adelaide. Hicks was captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan in late 2001 and spent five
By Cindy Saine Washington 08 January 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments challenging the use of lethal injections to carry out executions in the United States. The case under consideration comes from Kentucky, where two death r
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here in the United States, some prison guards are defending the use of solitary confinement. It's been controversial for centuries. As long ago as 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, was shocked to le