With government ineffectiveness and an increase in both white and black lawlessness, the problem of where and how to house convicts was significant. Initially, some states paid private contractors ...

But the Kremlin is watching the mounting crimes by returning convict-soldiers and trying to keep them from coming home, Olga Romanova, head of the Russia Behind Bars prisoner rights organization ...

And now the the self-taught paralegal is on a mission to assist death row convicts access justice. (See separate Story) In 2017, when two Kamiti inmates challenged the mandatory death sentence ...