r/prisons • • 10h ago

‘Former inmates want to come back to visit’: inside Florida’s prison zoo. Prisoners look after a kinkajou, zebu and ostrich at Monroe County detention center in the Florida Keys. It is the only correctional facility in the world with its own zoo

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r/prisons • • 29m ago

Prison reform programme advances staffing, training, rehabilitation plans | St. Maarten’s has made progress in developing prison policies, preparing a future correctional workforce and expanding education, healthcare and rehabilitation activities, according to an update from the UN (UNODC).

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r/prisons • • 52m ago

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail | Coming out of prison into homelessness is devastating for the individuals who in most cases just want to move on. But it also has a wider impact

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r/prisons • • 57m ago

'I fell into addiction after my prison sentence. Yoga helped my recovery and now I teach it in prisons' | Since leaving prison, Frankie has turned her life around, becoming a yoga instructor, photographer and joining the Big Issue frontline team

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r/prisons • • 1h ago

Hi this is a survey about child custody and offending rates. It is quick and extremely confidential.

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r/prisons • • 4h ago

Therapeutic community prison

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Son has applied to one and they want his medical records. He is worried all the shit he used to chat when he was 16 will reflect very badly at TC and on parole.. Maybe even his restrictions on release. How likely is this.


r/prisons • • 9h ago

Beyond Access. Improving credit mobility to advance student success in prison education programs

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r/prisons • • 20h ago

A Missouri police officer shot and killed a mother and her infant daughter during an encounter that officers escalated instead of waiting for a mental-health co-responder who was moments away, according to a lawsuit resolved through a $5.89 million settlement

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