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Carel Fabritius’ Self-portrait (c. 1645, oil on panel, 65 x 49 cm.) was once believed to be the work of Rembrandt. Courtesy the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Rembrandt worked slowly.
Among those paying the price is Ruben Vardanyan, who now sits in a prison cell for trying to help. The last time this happened to Armenians, America responded heroically. When Ottoman Turks ...
Maier, 62, died on Feb. 22, 2024, one week after prison staff began intermittently shutting off the water to prevent him from flooding his cell. His death was ruled a homicide. The lawsuit filed ...
Still, Avalos has concerns about the lack of due process given to prisoners. Even the worst criminals deserve their day in court, he said, and that’s not happening. That issue is on display in ...
The Russian military intelligence agency (GRU) oversaw the recruitment of prisoners into assault units known as "Storm Z." It also funded the units and collected of information about casualties ...
Marsha Blackburn. A Justice Department report revealed 40% of surveyed prison employees experienced inmate sexual harassment. The U.S. Senate has passed legislation introduced by Sen. Jon Ossoff ...
President Donald Trump ordered the rebuilding and eventual reopening of the infamous Alcatraz Island federal prison located off the shores of San Francisco, California, which he said will “house ...
In the state of Ohio, Lucasville remains synonymous with the state's largest-ever prison riot. On Easter Sunday of 1993, more than 400 inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility there took ...
"Good luck, because it's a shithole here," a prisoner shouts as we walk around the grounds at HMP Foston Hall. Other inmates described this women's prison in Derbyshire as a "holiday camp", even ...
It isn’t just violent confrontations that may have led to people dying at the Dauphin County Prison, just outside Harrisburg, Pa. It’s also the temperature. And decisions made by prison staff ...
The collective hum of hundreds of sewing machine needles ploughing through fabric pierces the air as the prisoners get to work. The factory floor is a sea of yellow uniforms worn by the 2,500 ...