Nor could Grossman write about collaborators or the punishment battalions composed of convicts that were used as cannon fodder (one of many parallels between the conduct of the Soviet army and the present-day Russian military in Ukraine).
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Nick Holdstock,
The Dial,
8 Sep. 2026
He is listed among the two hundred convicts who arrived in Sydney aboard the barque Norfolk in August 1829.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland argues that artworks made by prisoners forced to do so in Nazi concentration camps are not their legal property.
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Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
18 Sep. 2026
Krieps played the notorious wife of a Nazi concentration camp commander, Ilsa Koch, who was said to torture prisoners and make household objects out of human skin.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that accidental drug overdoses were the causes of two jail inmates’ deaths at John Peter Smith Hospital in April and June.
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Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Sep. 2026
Polk County has the first county jail in Iowa joining a nationwide education and life skills rehabilitation program for inmates with the goal of reducing recidivism and helping the community.
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