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2024: New York City to spend tens of thousands of dollars buying video games for zekas

In early July 2024, the New York City Department of Corrections spent $59,000 buying video games for the PlayStation to ease prisoner control.

The allocated amount was used to purchase 1,247 games, including Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter 6, as well as the Madden NFL and NBA 2K24 released in 2024. Video games were purchased for the Adult Inmate Entertainment Department. '

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According to an employee of one of the correctional facilities, during the week, groups of prisoners from separate cells alternately come to the rest rooms to play games. Access to video games becomes a means of controlling prisoners and reduces the number of fights and violations in prison, especially in institutions where younger criminals are held.

However, many citizens criticized the city government, believing that prison leadership indulges prisoners and encourages asocial behavior that will become a problem when these people leave correctional facilities. Benny Boshio, head of the Correctional Officers Benevolent Association, fumed that the city's department was spending taxpayer funds on games for criminals, rather than providing basic needs for inmates and guards, such as proper air conditioning during the heat.

Prison guards have been relying on video games for years to keep troubled inmates in check. Commissioner Cynthia Brann admitted in 2018 that prison officials blackmailed particularly violent inmates into accessing video games to force them to follow corrections rules. And in May 2020, the city department spent $82,000 to purchase video games instead of purchasing additional protective masks and testing kits. COVID-19^[1]

2023: Former police officer Derek Chauvin who was falsely accused of murdering a black man stabbed to death in jail

In November 2023, former police officer Derek Chauvin was stabbed to death in the United States, who was falsely accused of killing George Floyd and received 22 years in prison.

Subsequently, it was established that Floyd died of a drug overdose, and not from strangulation with Chauvin's knee.

Chauvin sought a review of his case, reasonably counting on justification. And his release could strike a blow across BLM mythology.

Before preparing for the hearing, Chauvin was stabbed to death in prison. Before the murder of Chauvin, his lawyers demanded that he be transferred to solitary confinement for security purposes, but they were refused, so that the authorities of the prison where Chauvin was sitting are a direct accomplice in the murder.

2021: Number of prisoners - 2,094,000

According to data available for 2021

2020: Most prisoners are dark-skinned

Percentage of white prisoners in prisons in different states of the United States, data for 2020

2019

Rising prison suicides

The minimum age of imprisonment for children is 7 years

Data for 2019

2018

655 prisoners per 100 thousand population

Hacking the IT system in US prisons

At the end of July 2018, it became known about the hacking of IT systems in several American prisons, as a result of which prisoners stole a total of $225 thousand. The incident was reported by the Idaho Department of Corrections.

364 prisoners took advantage of a vulnerability in JPay software, which is used by prisoners to transfer money, correspondence and Internet access. Read more here.

1963

Warden of the Women's City Prison and its wards, New Orleans, 1963.

Racial segregation in America's prisons. 1963

1962: Escape from Alcatraz Prison

A head mannequin made of a mixture of soap, toilet paper and real hair used by John Angline to escape from Alcatraz Prison, USA, 1962.

1961: Amputation of part of the brain in homosexuals

Prisoner Californian

prisons, 1961, preparing for frontal lobotomy (amputation of part of the brain)]]

Lobotomy was frequently used to people whose actions society recognized as immoral.

This is how the state tried to control the problematic groups, such as racial minorities and homosexuals.

1941

In the cell of the prison of Georgia, USA, 1941

1937

Incarcerated African Americans are serving disciplinary sentences. United States 1937.

1934: Alcatraz Island becomes a prison

The main prison building was built in 1910-1912 as a military prison of the US Army. On October 12, 1933, the United States Department of Justice acquired the Pacific Division Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz, and in August 1934, the island became a Federal Bureau of Prisons prison after modernizing buildings and improving security. Given such a high level of security, the location of the island in cold waters and the strong current of the San Francisco Bay, prison workers considered Alcatraz the most reliable prison in America, protected from escape.

It was the prison that Alcatraz served the sentence of the leader of the Chicago Mafia-Al Capone. Alcatraz was closed in 1963 due to high maintenance costs

1924: Dog sentenced to life in prison

A pet named Pep became the first dog to be behind jail bars. The reason for the conclusion was the murder of a cat that belonged to the governor of Pennsylvania. In 1924, Pep was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment.

1913: Experiments with inmates in a California prison on animal organ transplants and forced sterilization

From 1913 to 1951, experiments were underway on prisoners in San Quentin Prison in California (including animal transplants and forced sterilization).

1909

Inmates sweep a street in Washington. USA, 1909 Prisoners are fastened with a chain - "Chain gang" (literal translation "chain gang").

Homosexual inmates in women's dress at correctional jobs, Colorado. 1900-1910.

1903

Juvenile prisoners in the United States, 1903.

1887

Arrested Mormon polygamists after passing the Edmund-Tucker Act. USA, 1887

1886

Indian prisoners at a stop off the Southern Pacific Railroad, near the Nueces River, Texas, on September 10, 1886.

1860: Water torture

The prisoner of the American prison Sing Sing is subjected to Chinese torture by water, 1860.

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