Including those in local jails, more than 2.3 million Americans are incarcerated today, and the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, five times more than in England; 12 times more than in Japan.
Congressional investigators said Wednesday that 15,000 children with psychiatric disorders were improperly incarcerated last year because no mental health services were available.
Women are deprived of fundamental rights, and despite Saudi propaganda claims that social progress is being made, scores of women's rights activists were detained and incarcerated last year.
In 1650, the cathedral was closed for worship when Oliver Cromwell incarcerated 3,000 Scottish soldiers there after the Battle of Dunbar.
They were due to be incarcerated yesterday, and so last week the Bundys arrived, carrying Constitutions in their pockets as missionaries once carried Gideon Bibles.
Saeed Abedini is an Iranian-American pastor who has been incarcerated since early 2012, suffered injuries during interrogation, and was recently moved to an even harsher prison.
But in an interview with the St . Louis Post-Dispatchon Monday, Franklin, who has been incarcerated since 1980, insisted he no longer hates black people or Jews.
The woman, Cheri Pope, looked shaken and fatigued after visiting Lefortovo Prison, where her husband, Edmond, a former naval intelligence officer, has been incarcerated since early April.
On Tuesday, a judge dismissed one of the charges against Mr. Rajab, who has been incarcerated since August, reducing the overall sentence to two years from three, Mr. Rajab's brother Ammar said.
A Palestinian poet imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for renouncing Islam has written his first poem since he was incarcerated two years ago, provoked by the loss of his father who died after hearing his son was to be beheaded.
