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A recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment
Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...
U.S. YouTuber still in jail after trying to visit remote tribe on forbidden island where another American was killed
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut as offering for the tribe after he failed to contact the ...
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The art of confinement: Rikers Island detainees’ work goes on display in Bed-Stuy
Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind.
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Weinstein asks to sleep in hospital, citing prison 'mistreatment'
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers asked Wednesday he be allowed to spend the night in the hospital during his retrial on rape ...
200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations
On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles X issued a decree stating that France would recognize Haitian independence but only ...
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'La bolita,' Cuban lottery offering hope in tough times
Every day, as he has done for 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" -- a ...
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The art of confinement: Rikers Island detainees’ work goes on display in Brooklyn
Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind. The ...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s New Home: A Run-Down Prison That Once Housed Al Capone
Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next stage of his career as a federal inmate. Earlier this week, the founder of ...