El Salvador’s prison factory: Thousands of inmates sew uniforms round the clock and earn sentence reductions | World News

Inside one of El Salvador’s sprawling prison complexes, rows of sewing machines operate in day and night shifts. Inmates produce clothing for public institutions as part of a state-backed prison labour programme that expanded in early 2025. The initiative, promoted by the administration of Nayib Bukele, is presented by officials as a way to make […]

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School uniforms, binoculars and more: Jeffrey Epstein’s Amazon purchases revealed in DOJ files

A newly released tranche of documents from the US Department of Justice has pulled back the curtain on a deeply unsettling aspect of Jeffrey Epstein’s private life: his online shopping history. The records, part of a broader release tied to the federal investigation into the disgraced financier, detail thousands of Amazon purchases that investigators say […]

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‘Crushing cost’: UK parents skip meals, forego heating to afford school uniforms – survey

A survey has found that parents in England are skipping meals and relying on buy-now-pay-later services like Klarna to cover the cost of school uniforms ahead of the autumn term.The survey, conducted by parenting charity Parentkind, found that many parents were being pushed into debt to afford school uniforms. Nearly half (45 percent) of respondents […]

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