Inmates

via Millennium Films Horror has always been one of the most heavily-saturated genres in cinema, but the Gothic offshoot has largely been under-served, at least when it comes to major productions backed by an array of top talent. Stonehearst Asylum looked to buck that trend back in 2014, but it ended up completely falling through the cracks instead. To say that the supernatural chiller was stacked would be an understatement, and that applies to everything from its inspirations all the way through to the…

A former prison correctional officer was arrested on Wednesday in Hawaii and faces criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of multiple female inmates.Mikael Rivera, 45, of Kapolei, Hawaii, served as a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu from 2014 to 2018, and during his time at the facility allegedly “committed multiple sexual acts with one inmate through the use of threats and engaged in sexually abusive conduct with two additional inmates under his supervision,” according to a…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nigeria's prison population is more than 76,000, housed in 240 correctional centers. About 70% of these inmates are still awaiting trial. They have been arrested and charged, but not yet convicted or cleared. This is the highest percentage of awaiting-trial prisoners in Africa. World Prison Brief's latest…

In Norway, there are several services that use music to make the inmates better equipped at handling everyday life after being released. Credit: Illustration: Archive image from a concert with the project Music in Prison and Freedom (MIFF). Photo: Heiko Junge/NTB In Norwegian prisons, a cultural project that few know about is afoot. Music can become a lifeline when people enter back into society, according to musicologist.…

During his three-year incarceration at an Indiana prison, Mike Tyson received visits from some of the biggest names in entertainment. “I had everybody. B.B. King, James Brown, Whitney Houston … Florence Henderson. Everybody came,” he said in a recent interview Drink Champs. “I can’t even name them all. Just so many people came to visit me.”Though there’s no doubt that the A-list visitors caused a stir within the facility, there was one star who received a surprisingly warm welcome from inmates: the late Tupac Shakur.“I…