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Images from inside the House of Corrections
11 photos The Maryland House of Correction, also known as “The Cut” or “The House” is one of the oldest prisons in the United States, having been in use for 138 years. A prison that was designed for...
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Nov. 9 Photo Brief: Intangible Chinese culture, Syrian refugees, Body Worlds...
23 photos Syrians continue to flee their homes by the thousands, a deadly prison riot in Sri Lanka, “Body Worlds” displays its preserved human specimens in Honduras, China cracks down on...
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Prison inmates in Peru perform ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
15 Photos Inmates perform the Broadway musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” inside Peru’s Sarita Colonia prison.
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Touring Philadelphia’s infamous Eastern State Penitentiary
24 Photos The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia once housed mobster Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton. The 980-cell Gothic-style prison, where massive gargoyles sit menacingly above its...
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Art on Ellis Island, rain in Columbo, crackdown on journalists in Hong Kong |...
19 Photos The day in pictures around the world.
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Ducks, searching for escaped killers, Chile education protests | June 10
22 Photos Ducks on the streets, searching for the escaped killers in New York and teachers protest education reforms in Chile That, and more, in the day in photos around the world.
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Preparing for Christmas in a Brazilian prison
16 Photos By JENNY BARCHFIELD | Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In her sweat-stained Santa suit and soggy cotton-ball beard, Carina Barbosa looked every inch the picture of tropical Christmas...
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Inside one of Brazil’s most crowded prisons
19 Photos With more than 600,000 inmates behind bars, Brazil has the fourth-largest prison population in the world after the United States, China and Russia, according to Brazil’s Justice Ministry.
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Riots at Brazil’s Alcacuz Penitentiary Center
27 Photos Brazilian authorities said Wednesday they are deploying 1,000 troops to “clean out” arms and cellphones from restive prisons while police moved to end a deadly gang face-off in the Alcacuz...
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Overcrowding, disease and death in Haiti prison
18 Photos Overcrowding, malnutrition and infectious diseases that flourish in jammed quarters has led to an upsurge of inmate deaths inside the National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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