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Photo: VOA Protesters converged on a high school in Sterling, Illinois where a state commission was holding a public meeting on the possible sale of a prison The Illinois State Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability held a public hea
Folsom Prison (johnny cash) I hear the train a coming it's rolling round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on But that train keeps rolling on down to San Antone When I wa
Handbags made by current or former Lebanese prisoners on sale in Sarah Beydoun's Beirut store (file photo) Many women love handbags and purses. They can show a woman's wealth, style and taste, but they don't often have more profound meaning. A Lebane
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Half a century ago, one of the best debate teams in the Northeast didn't come from an Ivy-clad private school - far from it. They were inmates at a Massachusetts prison. By 1966, the Norfolk Prison Debating Society boasted 144 wi
Education Report - Helping Women Continue Their Education After Prison 教育报道 - 帮助前在押女性继续其教育 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 Some womens prisons in the U
AS IT IS 2013-08-13 Indonesian Prison Inmates Buy Special Privileges Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Steve Ember. Today we tell about how some prisoners in Indonesian jails use their money to get special privileges and ser
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A program in the eastern United States invites young people into a prison to try to scare them away from prison. The goal is to teach them to avoid bad choices and bad influences that could put them b
If you ask young prisoners what got them behind bars, many will point to negative role models and peer pressure. To raise awareness among teens and help them steer clear of bad choices, the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown (MCI-H) runs
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Before Christopher Scott went to prison, he led a quiet life, spending as much time as possible with his sons. CHRISTOPHER SCOTT: In the place that I lived at, we had, like, a pond, so I used to take my two boys out and go feed t
DON GONYEA, HOST: Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola Prison, is known for extremes. It's an enormous, maximum-security prison. And it's so remote most of the medical needs of the prisoners are met right at the prison. But according to some inmat
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A few years ago, Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods started a project - making a podcast about life in prison - for inmates by inmates. NIGEL POOR: Our goal was to do a podcast that would be played on the closed-circuit station inside o
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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And that music means it is time for StoryCorps. Today, two conversations recorded 10 years apart. Recently, 25-year-old Kayla Wilson sat down with her mom at StoryCorps. We'll hear that interview in a bit, but
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Former South African President Nelson Mandela would have been 100 years old tomorrow. He died in 2013, and a new book is marking his centennial. It's called The Prison Letters Of Nelson Mandela. These deeply personal letters were c
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 March 2006 Israeli military authorities say a siege at a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho has ended with the surrender of a leading Palestinian militant. The prison s
By Michael Drudge London 14 March 2006 Israeli soldiers guard blinfolded Palestinian prisoners The British government says American and British monitors at a West Bank prison had to be withdrawn becau
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 10 March 2008 Disturbing video of sadistic prison brutality has emerged in Russia. Authorities there do not dispute the images, but claim they are from the early 1990s. Russian human-rights activists say the violence occurred
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A national lawmaker has urged strict legal supervision for China's milk industry, suggesting that those black sheep in the sector should be sent to prison. Zong Qinghou, a beverage magnate and also a deputy to the Nationa
NOEL KING, HOST: More than 2 million people are incarcerated in the United States, and recidivism is a major concern. Finding a legitimate job is one of the biggest obstacles for people released from prison. The Washington Corrections Center for Wome