There is a new movment in Washington state prisons to make them more 'green'; for them to recycle more and in turn, save energy and money. ""It's nice to be out in the elements," said Knowles, 42, stirring dark, rich...
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Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...
" Gov. Ed Rendell calls for halt to prisoner releases"" Responding to mounting criticism of Pennsylvania's parole process after the killing of a Philadelphia police...
"There are few radical left-wing organizations more obnoxious than the American Civil Liberties Union. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t just pack a tie-dyed Volkswagen full of leftover San Fransisco hippies and drive to your area to protest, they pack a private jet full...
Cacy Anthony is about to get out of jail again. A unknown has possed bail for tis woman who is under suspition of the dealth of her child. Evidence of a decomposed body was founf in her trunk. She...
Columbia, SC - A very sad incident occurred last night in the Palmetto State. A woman removed a gun from a Department of Corrections officer and shot herself in the head. The police were at Palmetto Health Hospital in Columbia with an inmate who needed...
A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...
As reported yesterday on NowPublic, mothers in Ohio prisons are part of a new plan to allow them to keep their children with them in jail. But mothers in British Columbia, Canada, will not have the same privilege.Corrections BC has cancelled a plan today that allowed pregnant...
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A notorious New Zeland killer, Antonie Dixon, has been barred from MySpace. His web page has been removed after his conviction. "According to the jail officials, Dixon did not have access to the Internet and had...
We've all heard of the slips of paper given in school to go to the principal's office or to detention--but slips of paper to route prisoners to jail? Seems like that could be an open invitation to some fiddling around--and sure enough, one convict is now on the lam."State...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanada's Conservative Government has taken a Giant Leap in the Right direction, but replacing Parole Board Members with retired Police and Prison Guards who in the career...
SC Executed Convicted Killer by Electric Chair, first time since 2004 Media Credit gangsorus.com " COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.The...
California's longest-serving prison inmate, a former follower of Charles Manson, is seeking a compassionate release due to failing health. Convicted of the murder of Sharon Tate, Susan Atkins has fewer than six months to live." Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings...
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Susan Atkins, former Manson follower and convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and four others, has requested to be released from prison on 'compassionate release' as she has less than six months to live.I say.... so?"...
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" On May 28, 2008, members of the U.S. Marshals sponsored Hornet’s Nest Task Force captured escapee Richard Allen Sloan in Kings Mountain, North Carolina after being on the run for approximately one year. Sloan...