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New York Allows Same-Sex Conjugal Visits in State Prisons

New York inmates who are in same-sex marriages or civil unions are being allowed conjugal visits with their spouses or partners. The state officially announced the change in policy last week, making New York one of the few states to grant the private visits for gay and lesbian inmates in legally recognized same-sex...

Opinion: An Intricate Part of the Whole

Say how ya doing Outside world? Do you remember me? I'm that intricate part Missing from the whole The one y'all decided to forget ... Coties Perry wrote these words 25 years ago at San Quentin. For more than three decades, I've shared poetry in public schools and state prisons, and because the youngsters and...

What Now for Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?

When Congress passed the latest defense appropriations bill Wednesday, it also may have ended any chance that there will be a federal criminal trial soon for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Thirteen months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the key 9/11 planner would be tried for terrorism, murder and...

San Diego Man Gives Prisoners a Second Chance

Scott Silverman believes in giving people a second chance, especially those who some might think ruined their first chance: prisoners. Silverman, 56, is the executive director and founder of Second Chance, a human services agency that is committed to breaking the cycle of unemployment, poverty and homelessness by...

Iowa Prisoners May Roll Their Own Toilet Paper

(Dec. 3) -- Inmates at an Iowa state prison may start making their own toilet paper next year, as the prison system tries to cut costs. Prisoners at Fort Dodge prison may begin processing the paper as soon as January, according to The Des Moines Register. Inmates at Anamosa and Mitchellville prisons are testing out a...

Background on prisoners

A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war, (EPW) or "Missing-Captured" is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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