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Is the American Mafia on the Rise?
Expert Selwyn Raab on how September 11th helped the Mob evade annihilation and rebuild into the 21st century
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North Dakota's Norway experiment
Can humane prisons work in America? A red state aims to find out.
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Five jailed for murder of Putin critic Nemtsov
Five men have been jailed over the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zaur Dadayev, Khamzat Bakhayev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Shadid and Anzor Gubashev were found guilty in June of organising and carrying out the contract killing on Russia's former deputy prime minister. Mr Nemtsov was shot dead on a bridge just metres from the Kremlin as he walked home at night with his girlfriend in February 2015.
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Killer Nurse Suspected In Deaths Of As Many As 60 Children
A former Texas nurse serving a 99-year sentence for killing a child and suspected in the poisoning deaths of dozens more has been indicted on a new charge of murdering a toddler 35 years ago.
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Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit
DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?
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Can We Blame the Mafia on Lemons?
Economists and historians are connecting the early rise of organized crime with Sicily’s citrus trade. By Cara Giaimo.
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At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
That’s enough to cover the annual cost of attending Harvard University and still have plenty left over for pizza and beer.
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How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong
In 1969, Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist from Stanford University, ran an interesting field study. He abandoned two cars in two very different places: one in a mostly poor, crime-ridden section of New York City, and the other in a fairly affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif. Both cars were left without license plates and parked with their hoods up.
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Too many prisons make bad people worse. There is a better way.
The world can learn from how Norway treats its offenders
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Black man will spend six years in US prison despite jury finding him 'not guilty'
A black man who was found not guilty of armed robbery will still serve up to seven years behind bars after a judge ruled he had breached the rules of his probation sentence for another crime. Ramad Chatman handed himself in to police when he found out he was a suspect for an armed robbery at a convenience store in his hometown of Georgia in July 2014.
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The Oldest Problem in American Prisons
No prison demographic is growing as fast as the elderly. Of the 6.7 million people under correctional supervision in 2015 (“more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the height of Stalin’s misrule,” Adam Gopnik recently pointed out in the New Yorker), over 10 percent were geriatric (55 years or older)—a 400 percent demographic increase since 1993, according to a 2013 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Michelle Alexander: White Men Get Rich from Legal Pot, Black Men Stay in Prison
For 40 years, poor communities of color have experienced the wrath of the war on drugs. Ever since Colorado and Washington made the unprecedented move to legalize recreational pot last year, excitement and stories of unfettered success have billowed into the air. Colorado's marijuana tax revenue far exceeded expectations, bringing a whopping $185 million to the state, and tourists are lining up to taste the budding culture (pun intended). Several other states are now looking to follow suit and legalize.
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When Someone You Love Dies in Police Custody and They Blame ‘Excited Delirium’ States
Many cops are taught that some people lose it, gain superhuman strength, and die. But is the condition real? By Tana Ganeva. (May 5, 2016)
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[U.S.] White Collar Crime Risk Zones
The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View the project online here. By Sam Lavigne, Francis Tseng and Brian Clifton.
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Arkansas prepares to execute 8 men in 11 days: Justice, or an ‘assembly line of death’?
Patricia Washington sees a simple calculus: If you take someone’s life, you better be prepared to lose your own. The death penalty is just, she believes — an unsurprising view in this rural town a short drive from the state prison that houses death row. Executions have come up a lot lately in conversations at Washington’s work, a tiny eatery tucked into an Exxon service station off Highway 65.
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How the Food World Is Helping the Formerly Incarcerated
Annually, 600,000 formerly incarcerated Americans enter the workforce, but the path to success is fraught. Find out who's stepping up to help out.
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Why super-smart people may be drawn to a life of crime
A new book finds that high-IQ people have higher rates of crime—and are less likely to get caught. Many prevailing theories of intelligence suggest that people with lower IQs are the ones most likely to break the law, since impulsivity, struggles at school, lack of social bonding, and lack of foresight are all linked to criminality. In comparison, intelligent people have traditionally been seen as less likely to commit crimes, and this view of brainpower as a protective factor against offending has been bolstered by many studies over the decades. But there may be an IQ threshold after which a high IQ becomes more of a risk factor.
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Canada frees man convicted for 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people
The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people has been freed, according to Canada’s parole board. Inderjit Singh Reyat had been ordered to live at a halfway house following his release from prison one year ago, after serving two decades behind bars. That condition has now been lifted and Reyat may return to a normal life, including “living in a private residence”, parole board spokesman Patrick Storey told AFP in an email.
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UN Independent Expert On Promotion Of Democracy Calls On Governments To Stop Persecuting Whistleblowers
Alfred de Zayas, who is the UN's "Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and international order" has put out quite a statement in support of President Obama's decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence. But de Zayas didn't stop there. He went on to point out that the US government and other governments have been persecuting many other whistleblowers around the world, including Ed Snowden and Julian Assange, and that should stop...
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Missouri bill could get rid of mandatory minimum sentences
The 2017 Missouri General Assembly session, which begins on Wednesday, could bring a number of changes to state issues, including sentencing guidelines for certain criminals. House Bill 38, sponsored by State Rep. Galen Higdon (R – District 11), aims to get rid of mandatory minimum sentences in criminal cases involving non-violent or minor crimes. After working on the bill for the last few years, Higdon told 41 Action News that getting rid of mandatory sentences and “blanket punishments” could lead to fairer judgments.
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