September 2, 2009
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The Assembly cannot agree on what seems like common sense to the rest of us: people who commit low-level crimes like petty theft and simple drug possession should be punished on the local level, not in prison cells at a … Continue reading
August 3, 2009
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The Justice Department suffered stinging defeats this week when federal judges ordered the release of two more Guantanamo prisoners – Kuwaiti Khaled Al Mutairi and Afghan national Mohammed Jawad . All told, the government has now failed to convince federal … Continue reading
July 15, 2009
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The Decatur Correctional Center in Illinois is looking for a dog groomer, willing to work behind bars. The center runs a dog-grooming training program, and the woman who runs it since 2002 is stepping down,the Chicago Tribune reported. The program is known … Continue reading
July 3, 2009
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While crack use was hardly a black-only phenomenon, it hit black neighborhoods much harder than most. The evidence can be seen by measuring the same indicators of societal progress cited above. After decades of decline, black infant mortality began to … Continue reading
July 3, 2009
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Drug-Cartel Links Haunt an Election South of Border COLIMA, Mexico — The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels. A brother … Continue reading
June 29, 2009
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These bitches are headed for Broadway I know it. These are 1,500 prisoners from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines practicing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” That’s just their warm-up. They also do “Sister Act!” More: continued here
June 19, 2009
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Mr. Guzmán is the informal CEO of one of the world’s biggest drug-trafficking organizations, the so-called Sinaloa cartel, named for its home state of Sinaloa. It smuggles a big part of the marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines that end up … Continue reading
March 3, 2008
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Source: Wikipedia I write about prisons and prisoners a lot, so you might never know that it’s a really hard subject for me to write about, but it is. It’s not just numbers and statistics and information; it’s family. My … Continue reading