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Ohio to Execute Man for Killing Fellow Jail Inmate
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio plans to put a man to death Tuesday who killed a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate over the changing of a TV channel as he awaited sentencing for the aggravated murder of a fellow drug trafficker over stolen money, drugs and incriminating documents. Clarence Carter, 49, is to be executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He is to be the second inmate killed using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. AP Clarence Carter, who beat to death a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate, is scheduled to be ...
New York Budget: The 5 Most Painful Cuts
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsNew Yorkers, prepare for a fresh round of belt-tightening. On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo derided the state's budget system as "a sham," saying that a tangle of loopholes and arcane regulations prevented meaningful reductions in spending. He added that the secretive budget process and influence of special interests reminded him of the corrupt Wall Street practices he once fought as New York state's attorney general. "This all must end," he said. Today Cuomo issues his first budget, which is designed to close the state's $10 billion deficit. Although several of his "cuts" are actually ...
Dozens Dead After Riot Triggers Fire in Chilean Prison
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SANTIAGO, Chile (Dec. 8) -- A fire set off by rioting inmates in a severely overcrowded prison killed at least 83 prisoners Wednesday and seriously injured at least 14 others, firefighters said. Chileans nationwide could hear the screams of dying inmates in the background as a prisoner used an illegal cell phone to call state television for help. National prison police director Luis Masferrer said the blaze broke out at about 5:30 a.m. (7:30 a.m. EST) at the San Miguel prison south of the capital, and it was brought under control three hours later. Chile's health minister, Jaime Manalich, ...
Why Is Attorney General Eric Holder Dragging His Feet on Prison Rape?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- A new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that sexual violence in prison is rampant. During the year prior to when the BJS took its survey, it found that 64,500 inmates in state and federal prison had been abused, as had another 24,000 in county jails. According to The New York Review of Books, this number is actually higher, since the survey didn't include juvenile institutions or account for prisoners with shorter terms who had been released before the survey. "Overall, we can confidently say that well over 100,000 people are sexually abused in American detention ...
New Law Bans Cell Phones in Prisons
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCan you hear me now? Prisoners would be forbidden from using cell phones and other wireless devices under a new law signed by President Obama designed to keep crimes from being ordered from behind bars. "Now that this bill has become law, prison gangs will no longer be able to use cell phones to direct criminal attacks on individuals, to decide territory for the distribution of drugs, or conduct credit card fraud," said Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), the bill's co-sponsor. Under the law, anyone found guilty of trying to smuggle a mobile phone to an inmate would get a year in prison. Cell ...
Military Releases Reuters Photographer After Detaining Him for Over a Year
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. military has released a Reuters photographer who was held without charges for nearly a year and a half, Reuters reports. The military has not explained why it held Jassam Mohammed, a Baghdad native who worked as a freelance photographer for international news agencies, saying the evidence against him is classified. U.S. and Iraqi forces burst into Mohammed's home in Mahmudiya in the middle of the night in September 2008. He was taken to two different U.S. prisons in Iraq during his time in captivity as the military described him as a "security threat" because of his "activities with ...
Prison Forecast: Getting Gray and Overcrowded
By Robert W. Stock - AOL News(Dec. 26) -- A Manhattan judge sentenced Anthony D. Marshall to one to three years in prison Monday for stealing millions of dollars from his mother, the late philanthropist and grande dame of New York society, Brooke Astor. Marshall, an 85-year-old ex-diplomat and ex-Marine, underwent quadruple bypass surgery last year; his lawyer says he had a mini-stroke last summer. Theodore Sypnier, a 100-year-old retired telephone company worker in excellent health, is about to be paroled after 10 years serving his third prison term in New York State for child molestation. His daughter has asked the ...
U.S. Prison Population in Decline for First Time in Decades
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThanks to a falling crime rate and the tightening of law enforcement budgets, the number of people in U.S. prisons could decline in 2009 for the first time in almost four decades, the Associated Press reports. The American crime rate has risen steadily every year since 1972, but the 0.8 percent increase in inmate population in 2009 is the smallest annual increase of the decade. During the 1990s, inmate population grew by 6.5 percent each year. The decline in prison population is largely the result of the harsh economic climate, which has states re-evaluating how many prisoners they're willing ...
U.S. to Close Camp Bucca, Largest Prison in Iraq
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. military will close Camp Bucca, the larger of its two remaining prisons in Iraq, by the weekend, leaving only one declared U.S. prison operating in the country. British forces first used the camp for prisoners of war at the outset of the 2003 invasion, but it was gradually turned into a detention facility to house insurgents. At its peak, the camp, located near the port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq, held 26,000 prisoners. Many of them described their treatment there as harsh. ...
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