A female New Jersey prison inmate clams she was sexually assaulted by a transgender convict whose “aggressive” actions were not stopped by staff inside a notorious women’s penitentiary. An unidentified female inmate has sued the New Jersey Department of Corrections after claiming she was sexually assaulted at the now-closed Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. She has accused... 

A man identifying as a woman who impregnated two women while behind bars at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey, has been moved to another location. NJ.com reported Saturday: Demi Minor, 27, was transferred to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adult offenders in Burlington County, last month, Dan Sperrazza, a Department of Corrections spokesman,... 

Jewish supremacist groups have attempted to appropriate every aspect of World War II so that only they can decide how those events are used, mentioned, or written about — and have now gone so far off the deep end that they are allegedly offended that anyone else is executed in the same way “they were”: The American Jewish Committee condemned Arizona’s plan to reportedly execute death-row inmates... 

It’s not exactly breaking news that immigrants, particularly third world immigrants, are vastly overrepresented in Western Europe crime statistics. What hasn’t been seen, up until lately is that prisons that are filled primarily with Muslim inmates. The Danish Prison Federation has now raised the alarm about such conditions plaguing Danish prisons. In the last survey on the populations of Danish... 

French prison Fleury-Merogis, which holds 20 female jihadist inmates and is notorious for Islamic radicalization, is “simply cracking.” The staff struggles with violence and exhaustion, a prison union representative told RT. The facility for imprisoned women within the Fleury-Mérogis Prison, located just 24km from Paris, has 290 female inmates, 20 of whom the administration tagged as Islamic... 

Prison guards from penal institutions across France spilled into the streets this week in protests following last week’s stabbing attack against guards at the Vendin-le-Vieil Prison by an ex al-Qaeda inmate. Sputnik spoke to a guard union representative from the Fleury-Merogis Prison to get to the bottom of the protesters’ demands. Monday’s demonstrations at the Fleury-Merogis prison... 

Prisoners the world over are characteristically defined by their inability to move freely. Inmates at the Wabash maximum security prison in Indiana, however, were recently shocked to learn about one group that enjoys less time outdoors than they do: children. A global survey conducted on children’s time outdoors quickly became an ongoing campaign called “Dirt is Good” after the findings showed... 

A solitary confinement unit at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is denying media access to hunger strikers in its prisons, officials said. As of Sunday, about 1,000 inmates were still on a hunger strike in protest of prolonged isolation for inmates with ties to prison gangs, KPCC public radio, Pasadena, reported. Prison officials... 

Forensic personnel remove the corpse of one of the inmates of the National Prison compound in Comayagua, Honduras, on February 15, 2012. A massive fire has swept through a prison in Honduras killing at least 350 inmates, many of whom burned to death in their cells, officials say. According to senior official at the attorney general’s office, Danelia Ferrera, the blaze that began late on Tuesday... 

Labour's early release scheme for inmates is being scrapped (posed by model) Labour was last night accused of a cynical election ploy after scrapping its controversial early release scheme for prisoners only weeks before polling day. Jack Straw announced the ending of the scheme, which has resulted in nearly 80,000 offenders walking free 18 days before their sentence reaches its halfway point. The...