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Overcrowding and Dysfunction Produced a Quiet Riot at a Miami Federal Prison Holding ICE Detainees

Half the elevators at Federal Detention Center Miami are broken. Immigrant detainees are kept on lockdown, and lawyers can barely reach their clients.

Reason

Eight Harmful Dyes Will Be Phased Out Of American Food Supply: RFK Jr.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will be revoking authorization for certain artificial dyes while working with the food industry to voluntarily remove others.

Medical Daily

Ugandan military court rules it can try opposition figure on treachery charge carrying death penalty

A prominent opposition figure in Uganda will stand trial on the serious charge of treachery, a military court ruled Tuesday, escalating the legal trouble Kizza Besigye faces ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026

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Ugandan Opposition Figure Denies Charges In Military Court Appearance

Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye faces charges after reappearing in court following a mysterious disappearance in Nairobi. Besigye's legal troubles ...

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Fontaines DC review – Dublin rockers strike out into the stratosphere

Rolling out new album Romance and an expansive change of direction, the band range from wistful to brutal in a small-scale gig of epic intensity

The Guardian - UK

Anti-abortion campaigner wins control of Brisbane LNP division

Concerns raised after former Cherish Life vice-president Alan Baker elected chair of party’s Griffith divisional council

The Guardian - AU

'This Is Not an Emergency'

How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.

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Former officers describe working in Florida prisons without A/C: ‘I thought to myself … this place is killing me’

For many prison reform activists, the need to do something about the lack of air conditioning inside state-run prisons is paramount.

Orlando Sentinel

People in Florida prisons will get free calls for good behavior in new program

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Corrections plans to allocate $1 million to a new program that will make a small number of phone calls free for people serving time in prison who display good behavior.

Orlando Sentinel

Debt lender raises a further £30m following a record year

Finance provider Frontier Development Capital is based in Birmingham and has offices in Bristol and Manchester

Birmingham Post

Florida Department of Corrections overrules rejection of journalist’s memoir about her time in prison

ORLANDO, Fla. — A book that was banned from being circulated inside correctional facilities across Florida will soon be hitting the library shelves in state-run prisons.

Orlando Sentinel

How a ban on visitors impacted the smuggling of drugs into Florida prisons

Prison officials have long said that inmates’ friends and family members bear the most blame for the flow of drugs and other forbidden items into Florida prisons.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

In Florida, loved ones of prisoners banned from wearing #visitsmatter T-shirts

ORLANDO, Fla. — When Ann Beal Salamone went to visit her son in prison last week she wore a white T-shirt with “MY VISITS Matter” written in the center of a big red heart.

Orlando Sentinel

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Florida wants to severely restrict prisoners’ visitation hours

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Florida wants to severely restrict prisoners’ visitation hours

ORLANDO, Fla. — Visiting hours to prisoners in Florida are a crucial way they connect with loved ones, but a new rule being proposed by the Florida Department of Corrections could cut those hours in half.

Miami Herald

Bloody clash at Miami-Dade prison ends with inmate dead, 10 officers on leave, one resigned

MIAMI — State prison officials acknowledged on Saturday that an incarcerated person died five days earlier, on Monday, after a clash with correctional officers during a transfer at Dade Correctional Institution south of Florida City.

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