prison
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The military prison in Guantanamo Bay opened six months after the attacks.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Chaves toured the maximum-security prison Bukele built and spearheaded the construction of a similar facility in Costa Rica, which is expected to open later this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 and spent seven years in a Scottish prison.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Cohen already served his three-year prison sentence for campaign-finance crimes and lying to Congress.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Then a prison boredom—which I soon learned to fear above all else— settled over the cell.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“But in Costa Rica, building prisons won’t solve the problem.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Male prisons have fewer than 1,800 spaces available in England and Wales, the lowest level since March.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The BBC understands all operational staff complete more than eight weeks of training, which includes shadowing roles in other prisons.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
He explains how he believes Alcaraz’s tragic death likely came to be and how officers have become desensitized to issues afflicting America’s prisons.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
But after a tour they took together of prisons in Siberia—the vast region of central and eastern Russia stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean—Goldfarb had a better understanding of Farmer and MDR.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
