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DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days
A college student mistakenly left in a Drug Enforcement Administration interrogation room for five days will receive $4.1 million from the government in a settlement in advance of a lawsuit.
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Texas Is Running Out Of Drugs To Kill Criminals
Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, is running out of a sedative used for lethal injections for the second time in 13 months.
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The former cell of the famous American gangster Al Capone
Eastern State Penetentiary, Philadelphia PA
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Ariel Castro: Convicted Cleveland kidnapper/rapist found dead in cell
52-year-old convicted kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro was found hanging in his cell Tuesday. He was sentenced August 1 to life in prison, plus 1,000 years, for kidnapping and sexually assaulting Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus while holding them captive in his Seymour Avenue house for over a decade.
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Rethinking mandatory sentencing
States are rescinding laws that require long prison sentences for drug crimes. Why?
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Harley Davidson Mobile Booking Cage, 1920s
Doesn't look all that safe.
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A Night At The Rock: Former Alcatraz Inmate Journeys Back
After more than 50 years, Bill Baker returns to the island in an effort to analyze his life.
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Out of prison and into the unknown
George Souliotes spent nearly 17 years behind bars before his triple murder conviction was overturned. Now he's trying to adjust to life on the outside.
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Innocent Man Freed After 35 Years Has An Incredible Outlook On Life
Until DNA testing proved his innocence, James Bain spent 35 years in prison for the rape of a young boy that he didn't commit.
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The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes
As a corrections officer at a Westchester County, N.Y., prison in the 1990s, Gary Klivans was a one-man gang unit. Members of The Latin Kings and the Bloods made up a sizable part of the prison population. Klivans learned quickly that to handle them, he needed to understand them, and that meant understanding the code they used to communicate.
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The World's Greenest Jail?
The 4,000 inmates at Santa Rita Jail in the San Francisco Bay Area have an unusual home. The Alameda County facility boasts a microgrid, a self-contained power system consisting of a 1.2-megawatt rooftop solar array, five wind turbines generating 11.2 kilowatts, a one-megawatt fuel cell, and two megawatts worth of batteries to store all that energy.
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Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why.
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Released From Prison, and Starting a Company
Like most entrepreneurs, Frederick Hutson cannot resist trying to solve a thorny problem. His company, Pigeonly, based in Las Vegas, taps an underserved and “captive” market by offering prison inmates an easy and efficient way to receive photos from loved ones and to make phone calls to them inexpensively. “Isolation is the worst thing for an inmate,” Mr. Hutson said. “It makes it hard for him to rebuild his life when he gets out.”
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An Ex-Cop's Guide to Not Getting Arrested
Extremely frank tips for avoiding a night in jail.
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What's Right with Sweden? Prisons Close as Demand Falls
With focus on rehabilitation and more reasonable sentencing, nation shutters four state-run jails.
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After 11 years in jail for murder, Kennedy cousin out on bail
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who spent 11 years in prison for the 1975 murder of a teenage neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, walked free on Thursday after a judge granted him bail ahead of a new trial.
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Prisoners return after Yolanda typhoon mass escape
Nearly half of the detainees who escaped from a flooded jail at the height of Super Typhoon Haiyan have returned, many after helping their families deal with the storm's aftermath. There were nearly 600 detainees at the Leyte Provincial Jail when the typhoon, one of the strongest ever to make landfall, flattened dozens of towns across the islands of Leyte and Samar on November 8.
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Canadian Greenpeace activist, freed on bail, shares story of Russian detention
As the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise approached a Russian oil rig two months ago, Paul Ruzycki envisioned he and his fellow activists would be allowed to quickly hoist their banner calling for an end to the exploitation of the Arctic before being forced to leave.
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Scores of inmates escape Libya prison
Official says at least 40 escaped after a jail in the southern city of Sabha came under attack from unknown gunmen.
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Mandela death: How a prisoner became a legend
As the imprisoned Nelson Mandela became the face of a global campaign against apartheid, within South Africa a ban on his image meant people weren't sure what he looked like - and he became a mythological figure, recalls author William Gumede.
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