From CNN: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday the federal government has the power to keep some sex offenders behind bars indefinitely after they have served their sentences if officials determine those inmates may prove “sexually dangerous” in the future.
I was on Facebook the other day, and someone made a joke about “being poked” (a way to draw someone’s attention on Facebook). Â The person casually made the statement that it’s “better to be poked on Facebook than to be poked in prison.”
From the Economist: IMAGINE that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner. But what happens if you take away one man? You might not think this would make much difference. You would be […]
WOODBINE, Ga. — Authorities say an inmate who broke out of jail, then returned after stealing 14 packs of cigarettes, has been sentenced to 20 years.
From the Daily News: The last time the census was done – in 2000 – Brooklynite Ramon Velasquez was locked up in Attica state prison for robbery. According to the Census Bureau, Velasquez lived not in hardscrabble Bushwick, but in rural Attica Village, 264 miles away. “Knowing that they counted me in Attica was a […]
VIERA, Fla. – A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When a Tennessee jailer ripped the gold grill from a new inmate’s teeth two days before Thanksgiving last year, it left the 31-year-old man in excruciating pain and left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $100,000 in damages.
NEW YORK — Lil Wayne was sentenced Monday to a year in jail in New York City for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007, then was taken away in handcuffs to begin his term immediately.
