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Stories about: inmates

Using Inmates to Study Plants Who knew that prisoners could demonstrate so much care for nature? A team of researchers is working with inmates to study prairie plants, which are grown inside a correctional facility. The offenders are asked to plant the seeds, observe the way the plants grow, and then write all the data down in tables, for process... 18 October 2010 06:51 GMT Solitary Confinement Drives Prisoners Mad Correction facilities around the world have a variety of methods to keep their inmates in check, and one of these methods, which was very popular until not so long ago, was to throw them into solitary confinement. Basically, what this means is that the men and women were placed inside small concrete boxes, some of wh... 30 April 2009 14:01 GMT