Guantanamo Prison Hunger Strike Grows It is a daily routine at the detention facility; military staff, including a medical team, check to see who is eating and who is not. For the staff at Joint Task Force Guantanamo - whose mandate is to be safe, hu...
Prison Theater Prepares Inmates for Life on Outside And if youre going to stage Romeo and Juliet in a prison, your first challenge is casting. Here, as far as personality traits, the feminine is not really embraced, says Hal Cobb, a founding member o...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Prisons as Art Studios FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Faith Lapidus. Today on our show, we play music by blues artist Joe Louis Walker We also read from some of your recent comments ......
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has promised to allow jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical attention outside of the Kyiv prison, where she is currently being held. At a news conference Tuesday, Mr. Yanukovych said he...
US Soldier Sentenced to Life in Prison for Afghan Atrocities A military panel in the U.S. state of Washington has sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs to life in prison for killing Afghan villagers for sport and cutting off their body part...
Education Report - Inmates Find Hope in College Classes at San Quentin Prison 教育报道 - 圣昆廷监狱为犯人提供大学课程 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 Last week we to...
Education Report - Women Inmates Train to Start Businesses After Prison 教育报道 - 美慈组织帮助服刑妇女出狱后开创自己的事业 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 Get...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 March 2006 Israeli military authorities say a siege at a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho has ended with the surrender of a leading Palestinian militant. The prison s...
Broadcast: May 5, 2003 By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: Crime in the United States has decreased in recent years. One problem now is what to do about crowded prisons. I'm Phoebe Zimmermann with Steve Embe...
Broadcast: Jan 02 2003 Zimbabwe has released more than 10 percent of its prison population in a post-Christmas 3) amnesty, following repeated complaints from human rights groups and the justice mini...