Alcala served time at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif., and the California Medical Facility (a state prison psychiatric hospital) in Vacaville. He was released in August 1974 ...

Some governments, the U.S. included, rely on private corporations to run prison systems, partly to save money and partly because the prison population keeps growing and available space is lacking.

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Analog VGA is being replaced with DVI-D and HDMI on many devices nowadays, so it would be nice to port projects from VGA to DVI-D. To address this, he’s come up with a simple DVI-D ...

The HDMI interface is electrically identical and compatible with the video-only DVI interface, which came first. For example, if a cable box or PC has DVI out, but the TV or monitor only has HDMI ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

In a letter to Human Rights Watch, he chronicled his unsuccessful efforts to induce prison authorities to protect him from abuse. Summing up these experiences, he wrote: "The opposite of ...

They may be practicing "Swedish death cleaning." It can be a lesson in decluttering. On the agenda: Your next home might not have a hallway. The routines Wall Street's rising stars use to stay on top ...

The department estimates that it will save the state $778 million starting next year, after the closure of three state ...

The second part of the scheme comes as the government announced a review of sentencing, chaired by former justice secretary David Gauke, which will explore tougher punishments outside prison and ...

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