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'Fraught With Abuse': Lawmakers Denounce Brutality in N.Y. Prisons

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GOP senator says Trump shouldn't send Americans to foreign prisons: 'We have our own laws'

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Punjab updates 125-year-old prison laws to meet international standards

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Class emerges as a key factor in who gets sent to prison

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How one state's repeal of a prison 'pay-to-stay' law could guide national reform

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Georgia lawmakers seek answers to deaths and violence plaguing the state's prisons

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Congress passes a bill to bring new oversight to the troubled federal prison system

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Judge rules New York state prisons violate law by holding inmates in solitary confinement too long

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Judge rules that New York state prisons violate solitary confinement rules

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'A blot on our legal system': New head of prisons' union calls for urgent review of indefinite sentences

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The Supreme Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some low-level drug dealers

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