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For Women, a Second Sentence
NINE years ago, I served 11 months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., for a decade-old nonviolent drug crime. Danbury is the sole women-only federal prison in the Northeast and is part of a complex that typically incarcerates low-security female offenders from Maine to Pennsylvania. The aging hulk of the facility dates from 1940 and has housed women for nearly 20 years.
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The New Jim Crow: Drug Policy as a Race Policy
Garry McCarthy, a 30-year veteran of law enforcement, did not expect to hear anything too startling when he appeared at a conference on drug policy organized last year by an African-American minister in Newark, where he was the police director. But then a law professor named Michelle Alexander took the stage and delivered an impassioned speech attacking the war on drugs as a system of racial control comparable to slavery and Jim Crow — and received a two-minute standing ovation from the 500 peo
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Psychiatrist: Holmes thought daily about killing
A psychiatrist testified that she couldn't stop James Holmes' obsession to kill because he wasn't specific about his plans.
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Behind the Mask: The Myth of the Psychopath
The idea of the psychopath is both comforting and dangerous. The Myth of the Born Criminal helps explain why.
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Mexican Drug Kingpin, El Chapo, Escapes Prison Through Tunnel
The prison break of Joaquín Guzmán Loera humiliated the Mexican government, which had touted his capture as a crucial achievement in the drug war.
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Public Enemy? At Home in Mexico, ‘El Chapo’ Is Folk Hero No. 1
When José Antonio Sevilla and his three brothers learned that the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo had escaped from prison, they jumped out of their chairs and shouted with glee. “El Chapo got out! He’s the greatest of them all,” said Mr. Sevilla, 19, a self-professed fan of the drug kingpin, whose full name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera. “He was famous before, but now he’s even more famous.”
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How to Avoid Rape in Prison - Men's [2015]
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For Ransom, Bitcoin Replaces the Bag of Bills
In the old days, criminals liked their ransom payments in briefcases full of unmarked bills. These days, there’s a new preferred method for hostage takers: the virtual currency Bitcoin. In a modern day version of a mob shakedown, hackers around the world have seized files on millions of computers, taken down public websites and even, in a few cases, threatened physical harm.
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President Park pardons business tycoon of embezzlement
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye on Thursday pardoned a tycoon convicted of embezzlement who heads the country’s third-largest business group. The justice ministry said in a statement that SK Group’s Chey Tae-won will be among some 6,500 people to be released from prison before the 70th anniversary Saturday of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s colonial occupation.
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[TRIGGER WARNING] A letter to … the friend who raped me
TRIGGER WARNING: I want to ask you why. I know there’s no point. Nothing you say will ever make me understand. But I have to ask, to get the question off my chest, to stop myself mulling over the possible answers in my head.
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Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison for Online Pirates
The UK Government plans to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement to ten years. The current maximum of two years is not enough to deter infringers, lawmakers argue. The new proposal follows a suggestion put forward in a study commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) earlier this year.
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Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison
Egypt’s state-run news agency says Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 16 others have been sentenced to life in prison on charges related to the killing of five people in an attack on a police station in 2013. The news agency report Saturday says Badie and senior Brotherhood members Mohammed el-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy were accused of inciting other Brotherhood members to attack the police station in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, and kill its officers and soldiers.
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Colorado movie gunman sentenced to 12 lifetimes and 3,318 years
Condemning movie massacre gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for his rampage in a midnight screening of a Batman film, a Colorado judge said on Wednesday that evil and mental illness are not mutually exclusive. "It is the court's intention that the defendant never set foot in free society again ... If there was ever a case that warranted the maximum sentences, this is the case," Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour said.
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The Secret to the Psychic Trade? It’s in the Parole Board Transcripts
Ms. Mitchell was arrested and convicted of grand larceny and sent to prison, which is where, on March 4, 2014, she came to be questioned about her work. In the process, she joined a very specific group: convicted psychics who, seeking an early release from prison, sit for interviews before the parole board.
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The gangs of El Salvador: inside the prison the guards are too afraid to enter
Adam Hinton has photographed the most dangerous places in the world, none more so than El Salvador, where the notorious MS-13 gang welcomed him gladly into their community and their private prison. Adam Hinton is one of those people who, after just a few minutes, you feel you’ve known all your life. It is an attribute every photographer needs – the ability to put subjects at ease – but it can also be a life-saver.
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Meet the Single Worst Human to Ever Walk This Earth
Carl Panzram — a tattooed, 6-foot-tall giant of a man with cold gray eyes — stowed away on a ship bound for Angola around 1920 to work as a merchant seaman. After arriving in Lobito Bay, he hired a half-dozen local guides for a crocodile-hunting expedition. But Panzram had other prey on his mind. As their canoe wended its way down the river, he shot each crew member dead before feeding their corpses to the hungry crocodiles lurking below.
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Report: Accused testicle grabber sentenced to jail for spitting at judge
A man with "WHO DAT" tattooed on his forehead, who is accused of grabbing deputies' testicles in separate incidents, was sentenced to six months in jail this week for spitting at a New Orleans judge, according to Nola.com | The Times-Picayune. Michael Edwards, 29, of Metairie, was in court Wednesday when he tried to spit on Criminal District Court Judge Robin Pittman. He missed, but evidence was discovered on her bench.
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Across the South, Many Jails Are Illegal Debtors' Prisons
Local courts across the US are illegally locking up poor people when they cannot afford to pay fines.
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The Problem With Hiring Liars to Catch Crooks
Can you really trust an informant who’s been arrested in 43 states?
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The woman who saved her rapist's life
A woman made the choice to save the life of her rapist. Why? Susan Copestick, 56, manages to remain calm while reliving the moment in November last year when she effectively chose to save the life of Peter Drummond. Her former partner had held her at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her earlier that day. "There was a split second when I was watching for Peter to stop breathing, waiting for him to die. Then I stopped myself and thought 'no'.
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