Source: The New York Times
Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside the prison with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide.
Source: The New York Times
At least a dozen inmates here in Central California have died from the disease, which is on the rise in other Western states, including Arizona, where the health department declared an epidemic after more than 5,500 cases were reported in 2006, including 33 deaths
Source: Nicky's Blog
Nicky reports out of the central prison of Bukavu (DRC)
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE
Convicted of attempting to kidnap 103 Chadian children, aid workers with the French aid group Zoe's Ark were sentenced to eight years of hard labor on Wednesday. But they may be sent back to France.
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday refused, at least for now, to order a hearing at which the government would have to explain in detail the destruction of C.I.A. videotapes showing the harsh interrogation of two suspected Al Qaeda operatives.
Source: Newsday.com
A federal judge in Central Islip ordered Varsha Sabhnani to jail Thursday, days after a jury found her guilty of enslaving and torturing two domestic workers at her Muttontown home.
Source: The Times
A British citizen who spent 20 years on death row in the American state of Ohio has accepted a plea bargain and is expected to be freed in time for Christmas.
Source: eurweb.com
...In a long awaited decision, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously last week to retroactively reduce prison sentences for people convicted of crimes related to the possession and sale of crack cocaine....
Source: CBC
"Al Haer, built to accommodate 1,200 inmates, is bright, airy and filled with light. Even though we walked the long corridors at night I found the artificial lighting easy on my eyes and the high-ceilinged cells not at all claustrophobic.
Source: Independent-Ireland National News
A rapist who avoided a jail term after raping a deaf mother-of-three in her bed while she slept has been jailed for seven years following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Source: Telegraph
Motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving could be jailed for two years under tough new guidelines issued today by prosecutors.
Source: On The Hill
As New Jersey has banned the use of capital punishment in the state, its use nationally is also declining, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Source: CNN
Two inmates escaped from a county jail, hiding the holes they made in the walls by putting up photos of bikini-clad women, officials said.
Source: ABC News
...They called him Iron Man, a hulking teenage football player with a baby face and winsome smile who lived with his parents in a small ranch house in the Buttonwoods section of town.
Source: Party for Socialism and Liberation
In "State and Revolution," comrade Lenin admonished that the state is an "organ of class rule." The corporate-fascist class that rules in the United States exploits racial differences in the lower classes through the creation of special socio-economic zones that "ghettoize" the l …
Source: Yahoo! News
"When I get out I'm going to smoke a bomber," Price yelled to the crowd, as he was led, handcuffed, from the courthouse.
Source: stopthedrugwar.org
Both the US Supreme Court and the US Sentencing Commission acted this week to redress inequities in the sentencing of federal crack cocaine defendants, but changes in sentencing will be only marginal unless Congress acts to amend or undo the minimum sentences it has mandated for …
I Am Not To Be Ordered !!!!! Asked yes... But ordered??? No.... This is a great opportunity for me to learn how to say no....To learn how to refuse.. And how to refuse those who are blatantly attempting to manipulate me. This place [prison] is.... Manipulation Heaven....
Source: The New York Times
Source: The Agitator
Thank this war. The goddamned drug war. It is so incredibly senseless and stupid.
Source: Reuters
A U.S. agency that sets federal sentencing guidelines voted on Tuesday to make retroactive a recent reduction in recommended crack cocaine penalties.
Source: USA Today
Michael Vick wore the black-and-white striped convict garb Monday when he was sentenced to 23 months in prison. Multiple uncertainties cloud the question of whether the fallen star ever will wear an NFL uniform again.
Source: USA Today
Where do we start with the American sports tragedy that is Michael Vick? Perhaps, more importantly, where will this unique case of jurisprudence, and its corresponding calamity, end? What of the ramifications for those confused souls who can't fathom the fallout from all the wast …
Source: Yahoo! Sports
Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that involved gambling and killing pit bulls.
Source: ESPN.com
Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy. Federal sentencing guidelines suggested a year to 18 months.