The commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been relieved of duty and reassigned to a staff position in Jacksonville, Fla. "due to loss of confidence" in his "ability to command," the Navy said.
Neflix's twelve-time Emmy Award nominated comedy-drama "Orange Is the New Black" has wowed audiences with its raw, comical and sometimes controversial spin on women in prison from "the perspectives of whites, blacks, Latinas, transgenders and other groups" in the United States.
Glenn Ford, Louisiana's longest-served death row inmate, walked free this Tuesday after spending close to three decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit.
Research compared the percentage of Latinos and Blacks in private and public prisons in nine states. Each state, at different percentages, had higher rates of people of color residing in private facilities than public facilities. Inmates released from private prisons experienced recidivism at an average rate three percent higher than public prisons.
These Colombian prisoners may have thought that their time for judgment was over the moment that they left the court room, but as it turns out, they were in for a whole different type of judgment in prison, as contestants in the increasingly popular "Reina Madre" prison beauty pageant.