prisons
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California’s Prison Covid-19 Outbreak Isn’t Behind Its Firefighter Shortage
Wildfires are raging across California, but the state lacks critical firefighting resources to adequately address the severity of the crisis. In light of the coronavirus pandemic and a worse-than-usual wildfire season, wildland fighting agencies across the U.S. knew they’d be in for a challenging summer. However, California is dealing with an especially precarious situation due…
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A Shady Company Offering US Police Mobile Phone Location Data Was Reportedly Just Hacked
A hacker has reportedly provided journalists with login credentials and other data stolen from the servers of Securus, a company that was recently revealed to be selling mobile phone location information to US law enforcement agencies without a warrant.
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Everything You Need To Escape From Alcatraz
Exactly 80 years ago today, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially opened its gates to some of America’s most violently incorrigible criminals — after all, it was the most escape-proof prison ever built. Escape-proof, that is, for everyone except three prisoners in 1962 and their trusty arsenal of brilliant, hacked-together gadgets.
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Sweden Is Closing Prisons Due To Lack Of People To Put In Them
As the prison population spirals out of control in some parts of the world, Sweden finds itself with an interesting and opposite predicament: it has too many prisons and not enough prisoners. For this reason, the Scandinavian country recently decided to shutter four prisons and a remand centre.