President Obama has Regrets about Guantanamo Bay via ABCFOX Montana Obama says he should have closed Guantanamo on his first day CLEVELAND - President Barack Obama says if he could start his presidency over, he would have closed the Guantanamo Bay prison his first day. Instead, the president ordered the detention center for terrorism...
Getting Fat in Jail is a Rehab #Fail Toxic Chemicals Contribute to Weight Gain During the past 20 years there has been a significant increase in weight gain and obesity in the United States. In most developed countries, current estimates suggest that women, in particular, are gaining weight on an...
Taxing the Inmates Taxes the Families - Since the subject of taxes is on the forefront of Americans, I thought I'd pass along a poem by Charley Ressee . After you read this, you might ask yourself, what doe s this have to do with inmates? Inmates are...
Do inmates have the same First Amendment rights as everybody else? The United States Supreme Court has said that “prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution.” Nevertheless, inmates’ First Amendment rights are less extensive than other citizens’ and their rights can...
LEGAL NOTICE If you received a collect telephone call from an inmate at a Washington Department of Corrections Facility between June 20, 1996 and December 31, 2000, your rights may be affected by a class action settlement. A $45,000,000 settlement has been reached in a class...
Who’s Hands Are Behind the Bars? (#Prisonworld Guest Blog) Guest Blog Submission to PrisonWorld by Stephanie Cornett, Chief Soul Shaker, Founder and President of Beautiful Forces The hands above belong to someone we typically think of when we think “prisoner”. They belong to a man. More increasingly the hands...