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HM Prison Wakefield
HM Prison Wakefield, known as Wakefield Prison and nicknamed "Monster Mansion", is a high security men's prison in West Yorkshire, England, holding category A and B prisoners serving long or life sentences.
HM Prison Wandsworth
HMP Wandsworth is a men's category B local prison in south west London, opened 1851 as the Surrey House of Correction, capacity about 1,371. Repeatedly criticized for overcrowding; given an Urgent Notification in May 2024.
HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs
HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, "The Scrubs", a category B local prison for adult men on Du Cane Road, London; built 1874–1891 by Edmund du Cane as England's first telegraph-pole plan prison, with Grade II chapel and gatehouse.
Hỏa Lò Prison
Hỏa Lò Prison (Nhà tù Hỏa Lò, Maison Centrale), the French-built 1896 Hanoi prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton" when it held American POWs from 1964 to 1973, including John McCain; now a preserved museum fragment.
Hoeryong concentration camp
Hoeryong concentration camp (Kwan-li-so No. 22) was a North Korean political prison camp at Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, built in the 1960s, holding up to 50,000 prisoners, and closed in 2012 with inmates transferred to Camp 16.
Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells is a global law firm formed in 2010 by merging Hogan & Hartson and Lovells; FY2025 revenue US$3.285 billion, CEO Miguel Zaldivar; merged with Cadwalader in July 2026 to form Hogan Lovells Cadwalader.
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, also styled HLC, is a global law firm created 1 July 2026 by the merger of Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, with 3,200+ lawyers and US$3.6bn revenue, led by CEO Miguel Zaldivar.
Hoke v. United States
Hoke v. United States, 227 U.S. 308 (1913), also styled Hoke and Economides v. United States, upheld the Mann Act (White Slave Traffic Act) under the Commerce Clause, holding Congress may bar interstate transport of women for immoral purposes while leaving prostitution itself to the states.
Hollis v Vabu
Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd [2001] HCA 44; (2001) 207 CLR 21, High Court of Australia decision holding a bicycle courier was an employee, not an independent contractor, so Vabu was vicariously liable; established the totality-of-relationship test, later qualified by Personnel Contracting and ZG Operations (2022).
Holly A. Brady
Holly A. Brady is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Holly A. Thomas
Holly A. Thomas, also known as Holly Aiyisha Thomas, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2022.
Holly L. Teeter
Holly L. Teeter, born 1979 in Kansas City, Kansas, is a United States district judge for the District of Kansas since 2018, nominated by President Trump.
Holographic will
Holographic will, or holograph will: a will written and signed entirely in the testator's own handwriting, valid without witnesses in about half of US states, of Roman origin, recognized broadly in civil law jurisdictions like France.
Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance was a treaty signed in Paris on 26 September 1815 by Austria, Prussia, and Russia pledging Christian principles in governance; largely symbolic, it ended with Alexander I's death in 1825.
Home invasion
Home invasion: forcible or unlawful entry into an occupied residence with intent to rob or harm occupants; distinct from burglary, measured through NCVS household burglary data, and criminalized by statute in Florida, Nevada, and Illinois.
Homeowner association
Homeowner association (HOA), a mandatory-membership private organization governing common areas and enforcing CC&Rs in US planned communities and condominiums; about 309,000 associations, fees averaging $243 monthly in 2023.
Homer Plessy
Homer Adolph Plessy (1863–1925), New Orleans Creole shoemaker and Comité des Citoyens activist, whose 1892 arrest on an East Louisiana Railroad whites-only car produced Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); pardoned posthumously in 2022.
Homer Van Meter
Homer Van Meter (1905/1906–1934), Fort Wayne-born bank robber and Dillinger gang lieutenant, also linked to Baby Face Nelson; killed by St. Paul police on August 23, 1934.
Homestead exemption
Homestead exemption: US legal protection shielding a primary residence (house, outbuildings, adjoining land) from creditors and bankruptcy, and separately reducing property taxes. Federal bankruptcy amount $31,575; state amounts vary from none to unlimited (Texas, Florida).
Homicide
Homicide is the killing of one person by another, whether criminal (murder, manslaughter, felony murder) or lawful (self-defense). Covers common law malice aforethought, murder degrees, the Model Penal Code, and 2025 US rates of about 4.1-4.3 per 100,000.
Hōne Heke
Hōne Wiremu Heke Pōkai was a Ngāpuhi chief in New Zealand, an early Treaty of Waitangi signatory who led the Northern War of 1845 to 1846.
Hong Kong Bar Association (香港大律师公会)
Hong Kong Bar Association (香港大律师公会), founded 1949, professional and regulatory body for Hong Kong barristers, governed by the Bar Council under chairman José Antonio Maurellet SC, with over 1,700 practising members including 109 Senior Counsel as of 2026.
Honor killing
Honor killing: murder of a woman by family members for perceived sexual or behavioral transgressions. Also honour crimes, femicide. Up to 5,000 victims yearly per UNFPA; planned family-council killings under community pressure.
Hoshang Amini (هوشنگ امینی)
Hoshang Amini (هوشنگ امینی) was an Iranian serial killer who confessed to 67 murders near Varamin between 1954 and 1962, and was executed in 1963.
Hostage
Hostage: a person seized or detained and threatened to compel a third party to act. Also called hostage-taking; prohibited by the 1979 UN Hostages Convention and Geneva Convention IV; historically a diplomatic institution in Rome and medieval Europe; Iran held 52 Americans 444 days.
Hostile architecture
Hostile architecture, also called defensive or exclusionary design, shapes public space to deter sleeping, sitting, or skateboarding; known for anti-homeless spikes, divided benches, the 2014 London spikes controversy, and the first US ban in Connecticut (2025).
Hostile work environment
Hostile work environment: unlawful US workplace harassment based on a protected characteristic, severe or pervasive enough that a reasonable person would find the environment intimidating, hostile, or abusive, under Title VII, ADEA, and ADA.
House arrest
House arrest, also called home confinement or home incarceration, is confinement of an offender to their residence instead of jail or prison, usually enforced with electronic monitoring such as ankle tags. It emerged from 1960s prototypes and was first used judicially in Albuquerque in 1983.
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (2026 c. 12) is a UK act, royal assent 18 March 2026, that ends the membership of the 92 excepted hereditary peers at the close of the 2024–26 session and abolishes the Lords' jurisdiction over hereditary peerage claims.
House of Lords Act 1999
House of Lords Act 1999: UK statute excluding hereditary peers from the House of Lords, excepting 92 under the Weatherill amendment; completed by the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026.