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Severe hunger persists in Haiti as violence intensifies in the capital
By Claire Pressoir and Tanya Birkbeck On September 9, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE – Violence caused by armed groups, economic slowdown and climate-related effects continue to drive high levels of hunger in…
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Gaza’s desperate civilians flee or huddle in hopes of safety, as warnings of Israeli offensive mount
By Mike Corder and Julia Frankel On October 14, 2023 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the…
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Gaza: Nowhere to go, as humanitarian crisis reaches ‘dangerous new low’
On October 13, 2023 The development follows an announcement by UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, just before midnight Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, that UN representatives in Gaza had been told by Israeli…
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Myanmar journalist jailed for 20 years for reporting on aftermath of storm
‘His sentencing is yet another indication that freedom of the press has been completely quashed under the military junta’s rule,’ says Myanmar Now editor-in-chief By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar On September…
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With cash bail eliminated in Illinois, the Cook County Jail population shrinks
It’s one of the jail’s smallest populations in decades, but it could swell again as defendants deemed too risky to release remain locked up. By Chip Mitchell On October 11,…
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Texas prison guards put inmate into potentially permanent coma
By Paul Flahive On October 10, 2023 Kiheem Grant attacked a guard, according to prison officials and was subsequently beaten so bad he has yet to wake up. His mother…
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Prisoners Say New Jersey’s Alternative To Solitary Confinement Is Pretty Much The Same
Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it. By Christopher Blackwell & Nina Zweig On October…
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Inmate Deaths Raise Questions About Temperatures in Oklahoma Prisons
By Keaton Ross On October 5, 2023 During the early morning count on Saturday, Aug. 26, state corrections officers found Vincent Willis dead in his cell at the Dick Conner…
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What’s behind a surge of deaths at one Ohio jail?
Montgomery county jail’s population is only 600 people – and all seven deaths happened within days of entering the facility, during pre-trial detention By Stephen Starr On October 5, 2023…
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