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U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 22, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Tim Masters is expected to walk out of prison Tuesday after spending more than nine years incarcerated for murder -- and despite the promise of a new trial, a local district attorney says Masters may no longer be a suspect. After a special prosecutor anno.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 11:50pm neoform

Washington Post -- Just months after U.S. Army troops whisked a German man from Pakistan to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002, his American captors concluded that he was not a terrorist. "USA considers Murat Kurnaz's innocence to be proven," a German i.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

Salon -- A federal jury in Miami today unanimously found U.S. citizen Jose Padilla guilty of "conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas." In so doing, the jury dealt an enormous blow not only to Padilla himself, but also to the theory which the Bush adminis.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 4:50pm neoform

Press Esc -- A veteran who spent 14 months in prison for filing a conscientious objector application against redeployment to Iraq has spoken out against the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence by President Bush. "I was imprisoned for 14 months after trying to a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 12:15am neoform

desmoinesregister.com -- A Detroit man was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for trying to burn down a women's health clinic that he mistakenly thought performed abortions. David McMenemy, 46, pleaded guilty in January to arson against a business affecting interstate co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 1:28pm neoform

CNN -- To avoid serving prison sentences for tax evasion, Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, have locked themselves off from the world on their own terms. From behind the 8-inch concrete walls of their 110-acre hilltop compound, the couple taunt police and SWAT t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Newsday -- A man who spent five years in jail for exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman to the virus. Sean L. Sykes, 33, was sentenced Tuesday. He was found guilty in May of having unprotected sex wit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

CNN -- An ex-judge who accepted expensive gifts in exchange for helping fix divorce cases and a former state lawmaker convicted in a scheme to shake down a judicial candidate were sentenced to prison Tuesday. Former Brooklyn state Supreme Court Justice Gerald.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

SF Gate -- A man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 should have to serve out the widely criticized mandatory term, a prosecutor told a judge Wednesday. A lawyer for Genarlow Wilson, now 21, asked.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform

FOX News -- Jack Kevorkian has promised to never help another person in an assisted suicide, but that has not dimmed the attention focused on the release of "Dr. Death" from prison on Friday. The 79-year-old retired pathologist was expected to leave Lakeland Corre.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 10:34pm neoform

CNN -- The following is information about the population of federal prisons. The information is also available on the Federal Bureau of Prison Web site, located here http://www.bop.gov/news/index.jsp. Federal Prison Population by Citizenship2000 -- 70 percent Un.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- In the cool and beflagged small courtroom in Jena, Louisiana, three black schoolboys - Robert Bailey, Theodore Shaw and Mychal Bell - are about to go on trial for a playground fight that could see them jailed for between 30 and 50 years. Jena, about 22.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 1:14am neoform

FOX News -- It was a big enough problem for Kenneth Affolter when he was sentenced to more than five years in prison for making marijuana-laced treats and soft drinks. Now he faces the wrath of a candy giant. The Hershey Co. has sued Affolter, 40, for giving hi.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue May 15, 2007 @ 10:58am neoform

www.popphoto.com -- Three-year-old Sarah M. is either a toddler in her birthday suit playing in the garden, or a nude temptress with a sultry look who requires protection from the culprits who took this photograph -- her doting parents. This is the fix we're in, now that.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 12:22pm neoform

CNN -- Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues. The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 605-inmate.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- Toilet paper is becoming a sought after commodity at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility after officials began limiting inmates to one roll at a time to trim costs. Officials say the prison has long had a limit, but they learned recently that it hadn'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

FOX News -- A man believed to be responsible for the 1991 rape and strangling of a 14-year-old girl killed himself in prison hours after investigators told him DNA evidence linked him to the unsolved case, authorities said Monday. Derick Moncada, 35, was serving t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 11:22pm neoform

ABC News -- A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was convicted Sunday of murdering a photographer, whose charred bones were found in a burn pit outside his home. Steven Avery, 44, put his head down and shook it when the verdict was read... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 8:33am neoform

The Age -- SEVERAL weeks ago, I took the media tour at Guantanamo. From the moment I arrived on a frayed Air Sunshine prop-jet to the time I boarded the same plane to head home, I had no doubt that I was on an alien planet. Along with two European colleagues, I w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 7:06pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days. Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their sentences. A state Senate panel on Thursday endorse.. Read More