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Prisons in sentence

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Now, keep in mind there are about 400 prisoners in US prisons who are classified as terrorists, and only a handful of them are in the CMUs.
The Bureau of Prisons describes CMUs as "self-contained housing units."
According to the Bureau of Prisons, they are for prisoners with "inspirational significance."
I think that is very nice way of saying these are political prisons for political prisoners.
Those prisons were eventually shut down, but only through the campaigning of religious groups and human rights advocates, like Amnesty International.
We know the criminal justice system needs reform, we know there are 2.3 million people in American jails and prisons, making us the most incarcerated nation on the planet.
There are thousands of Christophers out there, some locked in our jails and prisons.
We live in one of the biggest prisons in the world.
We visited not only with prosecutors but with legislators, with inmates in our state and local prisons.
And we've seen that redemption and transformation can happen in our prisons, our jails and our immigration detention centers, giving hope to those who want to create a better life after serving their time.
As for me, I choose to be free from the prisons I've created.
They recently came out hard against private prisons in the US, and good for them.
And so many of our lawsuits at Equal Justice Under Law target these modern-day debtors' prisons.
When their movement succeeded, entire prisons were remodeled and new forms of rehabilitation, such as the treadmill, were introduced.
Within a decade of its creation, over 50 English prisons boasted a treadmill, and America, a similar amount.
I was trained, along with other prisoners, to edit and produce recordings sent in from prisons all over the United Kingdom.
It now operates as Storybook Dads and Storybook Mums in more than 100 prisons in the United Kingdom.
I've been to prisons twice to talk to inmates about their jobs after they leave.
We have this program in prisons as well.
We go into the prisons, train them, give them skills, tools and support to enable them to be able to change their mindsets, their behaviors and their attitudes.
Every time I go back to prison, I feel a little at home, but it is the daunting work to achieve the vision that keeps me awake at night, connecting the miles to Louisiana, which is deemed as the incarceration capital of the world, carrying with me stories of hundreds of women whom I have met within the prisons, some of whom are now embracing their second chances, and others who are still on that bridge of life's journey.
For my story is singular, but imagine with me the millions of people in prisons today, yearning for freedom.
We spend billions to detain people in what are virtually prisons who have committed no crime.
Because the prison wardens were very enthusiastic about this as well, I started a Science and Sustainability Seminar in the prisons.
Our latest endeavor, with a grant from the Department of Corrections at Washington state, they've asked us to expand this program to three more prisons.
Their call to action rippled through homes and businesses— and news of their message even reached concentration camps and prisons.
These hastily built prisons were overcrowded and unsanitary.
Stage One is literally the culture of gangs and it is the culture of prisons.
Alexander had come in with three or four of his colleagues from university in their gap year, and they wanted to help assist, set up a library in Kamiti Maximum Prison, which if you Google, you will see is written as one of the 15 worst prisons in the world.
At the time of the phone call I just had a baby, I successfully completed a management buyout to the company I was working with, and the last thing I wanted to do was to go back home and touring the high-security prisons.
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