Questions tagged [prison]
For questions about the housing of convicted offenders in secured locations as part of their punishment.
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Data on prisoner swap deals
I am looking for data on prisoner-swap deals in recent years. What I currently found is:
Israeli-Arab prisoner exchanges;
Arab-Byzantine prisoner exchanges (less relevant - from over 1000 years ago);
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What happens if the US President-elect is sent to prison before assuming power?
This is a question about the period between November 5 and January 20 in an election year.
If a presidential candidate wins the election but is sent to prison on November 6, say, would they stay in ...
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What percentage of people in each nation have ever been incarcerated or are currently incarcerated?
Statistics of the number of people currently incarcerated (in prison, jail, brigs, confinement, detention, etc.) per nation are readily available for many nations. This is commonly referred to as a ...
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Have any theorists argued that imprisonment is an obsolete and unjustified part of a modern society, as a general punishment? [closed]
What if instead of taking it for granted that people who breaks laws have to sit inside confined buildings as punishment, there was a system in place where you lost certain rights because you ...
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How does El Salvador plan to deal with its huge prison population?
Under persident Nayib Bukele, El Salvador has taken a hard line against gangs and drugs resulting in the world's highest incarceration rate. Since March 2022, the country has been in a state of ...
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What it the logic behind prisons' spatial distribution around the world?
I have created a project which shows the distribution of prisons globally. There is likely a rationale behind this distribution.
For instance, why does Switzerland have small prisons while France has ...
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Do Palestinian territories actually contain any prisons or similar penal/detention facilities?
Hamas has made homosexuality punishable by 10 years imprisonment, but does it actually maintain/administer/have access to any prison facilities in the first place? If so, how many, and what are they ...
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How common is it for countries to draft directly from prison?
According to RFERL
Russian legislation currently forbids the military to register convicted prisoners for the draft or call them up for duty. But last month, the Defense Ministry submitted a proposal ...
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Non-anarchists often say the existence of prisons deters violent crime. How it is then that the USA is so high in violent crime?
People who are not anarchists often say that the existence of prisons deters people from violent crime. If you ask me, that implies that countries with higher incarceration rate tend to be lower in ...
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How is the safety of ex-presidents in jail guaranteed?
Ex-presidents and ex-prime ministers are surprisingly often convicted of crimes and sometimes sent to jail. Sarkozy, Olmert, Lee, Katsav , and Park are recent examples.
What do countries do about the ...
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What is the motivation for the merceneries to join Prigozhin's Wagner PMC? [closed]
I read that Wagner PMC recruits criminals from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine and pays as much as US$14,000 monthly. However, they have no or minimal training in combat and are practically being ...
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Could the German government decide to free Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov from prison?
So there are currently discussions between Russia and the US about some possible prisoner exchange to release US citizens Griner and Whelan from Russia. Apartently Russia made a request (through ...
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Why are notable prisoners sometimes comfortably housed?
I know of a US citizen who committed pretty brutal crimes in Afghanistan pre-Taliban, and went to a notorious Afghan prison. He had a dorm-like cell and was reportedly given alcohol and movies. The ...
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What sanctions is the UK parliament considering against social media executives?
According to a recent article by the Guardian, a new digital watchdog will be set up with the power to impose fines upto 10% of global revenue. In the case of Facebook, this will be upto £10 billion.
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Penal labour in United States
Penal labour is banned in most if not all of the United Kingdom. Perhaps because of
No prisoner shall be employed, in the service of the institution, in any disciplinary capacity
https://www.ohchr....
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