Court Sentences Georgia Inmates in $465,000 Scam

Accounts from several countries highlight different problems tied to prisons and incarceration. A Connecticut prisoner describes a surge of drug-related medical episodes and argues that staff responses emphasize punishment over treatment, while a review of Netflix’s “New Stanford Prison Experiment” questions how convincingly its staged roles and participant selections can illuminate the effects of power. In Georgia, two inmates received lengthy federal sentences for using contraband phones and caller-ID spoofing to impersonate police and extort victims nationwide. Separately, Belarus’s ongoing repression includes a border guard sentenced to a penal colony for “extremism,” according to a report on the country’s latest cases.