prison
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As details emerge about his criminal convictions, many are asking why Ballout was not in prison.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
A British funeral director faced prison Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left "stored on racks" and uncremated while relatives were handed other people's ashes, sparking calls for better regulation of the industry.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Hamm entered into an arrangement where she would accept conviction on three counts of unauthorized use of property while maintaining her innocence and avoiding prison.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
He said he did not see a handle and compared its appearance to an improvised prison shank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
I thought of this woman reaching Betsie’s cell, reducing it again to four walls and a prison cot.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Dark tourism research reveals that people are drawn to places associated with death, disaster, tragedy and the uncanny, whether former prisons, abandoned sites, or locations connected to unsettling historical events.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The prisons minister has resigned from the government, the BBC has been told.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Dhillon said both investigations into the two women’s prisons are “being pursued vigorously and simultaneously.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Still, pressure is building on Israel to provide a more thorough accounting of its prisons, as more reports of alleged abuses come to light, report Feliz Solomon and Anat Peled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In two short decades, between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in our nation’s prisons and jails soared from roughly 300,000 to more than 2 million.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander